Bug#287317: ITP: eid -- software to support the eID, the new Belgian electronical ID card

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

Op ma, 27-12-2004 te 23:25 -0500, schreef Eric Dorland:
> * Wouter Verhelst (wouter@debian.org) wrote:
> > Op ma, 27-12-2004 te 15:55 -0500, schreef Eric Dorland:
> > > I have good contact with the OpenSC upstream. Wouldn't it be
> > > beneficial to roll these changes into OpenSC proper? 
> > 
> > Absolutely, but I'd think it'd be better if Zetes would pursue this. I
> > planned to contact them, but wanted to have a good look at what they
> > actually changed before I'd do that.
> 
> Very sensible. If it's not too intrusive and everyone involved agrees,
> I don't mind applying patches to the package, so feel free to feed me
> some patches to review.

They do introduce an extension to the API...

> I'm CCing Andreas (the main OpenSC upstream
> developer), please keep him CCed on any replies.

Noted.

> > I should note, though, that I want to have these packages in Sarge. If
> > that means I have to provide a forked OpenSC to be able to do that, then
> > that is what I'll do.
> 
> I understand, I'd probably do the same thing if it's expedient. But in
> the long term it's probably not desirable. And if you do package a
> forked OpenSC, please have it play nice with my own packages :)

*g*

Of course, that goes without saying ;-)

The binary packages that Zetes provides have the modified libopensc.so.1
in them as libbelpic.so.0. If I end up packaging the forked version,
it'll do the same thing.

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