Hi, On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:47:42 +0100 Luca Capello wrote: > I'm adding again the bug report, please keep it cc:ed. Oh, sorry, was reading via gmane, so reply was sent over nntp only. Now CC'ing everyone. > > Is tf-tool to be used by the user directly? If so, I would place it > > in an own package. If it's only a binary used in scripts/whatever - > > ship it in lib*. > > tf-tool requires root privileges because it needs to access the USB > device. Moreover, practically speaking as a normal user you couldn't > do anything more than acquire/verify your fingerprint, but stored in > /tmp/test.bir. As root, however, you can automatically acquire a > fingerprint for a login user (because it stores the fingerprint in > /etc/pam_thinkfinger/). > > This is another reason I'd go for libthinkfinger only. Sounds reasonable. I do not see any real pain shipping a binary in libfoo, even if the name suggests something different. I once read the following statement: "How to check, whether my debian/copyright is okay? - Upload to NEW and wait for ftp-master action." As there is no point in the policy oslt, this would apply for your "problem" too ;) Thanks for packaging Evgeni -- ^^^ | Evgeni -SargentD- Golov (sargentd@die-welt.net) d(O_o)b | GPG/PGP-Key-ID: 0xAC15B50C >-|-< | 0C04 F872 0963 ADC9 AA83 882B 24A0 1418 AC15 B50C / \ | http://www.die-welt.net - sargentd@jabber.ccc.de Wie man Menschen tötet, lernt man jeden Abend im Fernsehen, aber wie man sie macht, DAS ist schlimm.
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