Package: wnpp
Owner: Luca Capello <luca@pca.it>
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : thinkfinger
Version : 0.2.2 [1]
Upstream Author : Timo Hoenig <thoenig@suse.de>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
* URL or Web page : http://thinkfinger.sourceforge.net
* License : GPL
Description : $PACKAGE for the SGS Thomson Microelectronics fingerprint reader
ThinkFinger is a driver for the UPEK/SGS Thomson Microelectronics
fingerprint reader. The device is being found either as a standalone
USB device, built into USB keyboards or built into laptops (usually
From Dell, IBM/Lenovo and Toshiba).
Here it will be the second part of the long description, read below.
Moreover, $PACKAGE in the short description will reflect the package
contents [2].
ThinkFinger is devided into two parts: libthinkfinger and
pam_thinkfinger. libthinkfinger is a library to be used in order to
communicate with the fingerprint reader. The utility 'tf-tool' can be
used to acquire and to verify fingerprints.
Now, I don't really know the best way to package ThinkFinger. In
theory, I guess we should have (file size in bytes, not stripped):
- libthinkfinger, depends on libusb
/usr/lib/libthinkfinger.so (31751)
- libthinkfinger-dev
/usr/include/libthinkfinger.h (4732)
/usr/lib/libthinkfinger.a (40484)
/usr/lib/libthinkfinger.la (876)
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libthinkfinger.pc (324)
- tf-tool, depends on libthinkfinger
/usr/sbin/tf-tool (23152)
/usr/share/man/man1/tf-tool.1.gz (1052)
- libpam-thinkfinger, depends on libthinkfinger [3]
/etc/pam_thinkfinger/ [where the login fingerprint are stored]
/lib/security/pam_thinkfinger.so (27724)
/usr/share/man/man8/pam_thinkfinger.8.gz (782)
Am I correct? Is tf-tool worth a single package or can I include it
in libthinkfinger (as I'd prefer)?
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
Footnotes:
[1] the package version will be greater than 0.2.2, because I'll wait
for the inclusion of the manpages as of
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.thinkfinger/111
[2] I still have a problem, because e.g. "PAM module for the SGS
Thomson Microelectronics fingerprint reader" is longer than the
expected 60 characters for the short description. Suggestions
welcome!
[3] strictly speaking, the PAM module doesn't depend on tf-tool,
because it uses libthinkfinger to access the fingerprint reader.
However, it should recommends tf-tool because the latter is
necessary to acquire the fingerprint for a login user
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