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Re: Bug#627038: ITP: libacsccid -- PC/SC driver for ACS USB CCID smart card readers



Thank you for your information. I think you should provide some instructions on alioth.debian.org and not reject us with no reason.

No, I did not subscribe MUSCLE mailing list.

No, I am not a Debian Developer. I am looking for sponsor to upload our package and I follow the steps from Developer Reference. Therefore, I chose ITP.

Godfrey

-----Original Message----- From: Ludovic Rousseau
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 5:56 PM
To: Hendrik Sattler ; Godfrey Chung
Cc: 627038@bugs.debian.org ; debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#627038: ITP: libacsccid -- PC/SC driver for ACS USB CCID smart card readers

Hello,

2011/5/18 Hendrik Sattler <post@hendrik-sattler.de>:
Zitat von Godfrey Chung <godfrey.chung@acs.com.hk>:

Before we started the driver project in 2009, we had requested to join as
a developer for libccid in alioth.debian.org but the author rejected us with no reason. As the same time, our customer pushed us to release Linux driver. Therefore, we decided to release our Linux driver based on libccid and had a
plan to release our driver to any Linux Distributions.

Godfrey, I do not remember rejecting your request. The normal steps
are first to send good patches to the project before requesting to
join. You do not need to be on alioth.debian.org to participate to the
development of libccid.

Godfrey, do you participate on the MUSCLE (Movement for Using Smart
Card in a Linux Environment) mailing list [1]?

I could not find any message from "Godfrey Chung" in my email archives.

But libccid evolves and forks of such projects do usually not follow. This
leaves both in a rather sad situation. Did you track the changes of 1.3.12
and 1.3.13? Any intention to rebase the work on 1.4.x so libusb-1.0 gets
used instead of libusb-0.1?

Good question.

Please note that libccid upstream author and Debian maintainer are same
person. He may reject our changes.

Let's CC him so that he can comment...

Thanks for the notice.

Godfrey, are you a Debian Developer? If not the bug should be an RFP
instead of ITP. But that is a minor point.

Bye,

[1] http://musclecard.com/list.html

--
Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
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