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

[Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@dungeon.inka.de>]

Hi everyone,

belgium releases the source code, a very nice chrismas present.

the opensc developers already had it for a few days and we could
take a look. we will merge most of the changes soon, but we are
considering a different approach on some issues.

the biggest issue is: belpic includes gtk code so it can do a gui
popup to ask for a pin. I'm not sure it is nice to link libopensc
with gtk. I'd rather prefer a mechanism where the application
registeres a callback function. maybe also make it possible to
specify a gui plugin in the config file that will be loaded
automaticaly and used as default callback.

so a full featured integration of all changes into opensc will take some
time. if you want to package belpic now with debian: I'm fine with
it. in half a year or so opensc can obsolete it, but till
then it might be the fastest solution to get belpic support
for everyone ready into debian.

a few comments:
package name should be belpic to be consistent.
(also because "eid" is generic, and other countries
 have eid software, too).

license is LGPL (with a few files under bsd).

Regards, Andreas