Bug#655927: ITP: smartcardpp -- C++ library for accessing Smart Cards

[Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>]

15. tammikuuta 2012 21.30 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> kirjoitti:
> Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi> writes:
>
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: "Martin-Éric Racine" <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>
>>
>> * Package name    : smartcardpp
>>   Version         : 0.3.0
>>   Upstream Author : Kalev Lember <kalev@smartlink.ee> & others
>> * URL             : http://code.google.com/p/esteid/
>> * License         : LGPL 2.1
>>   Programming Lang: C++
>>   Description     : C++ library for accessing Smart Cards
>>
>> smartcardpp is a set of C++ classes to manage Smart Card
>> communications and to implement basic command primitives.
>> .
>> This package provides the runtime libraries.
>>
>> *********
>>
>> This package is one of 6 packages created by the Estonian government
>> to support national ID cards on Free Software operating systems.
>>
>> This particular package is one of the core libraries used to access
>> and manipulate the data on the ID cards.
>>
>> The whole suite is comprised of the following source packages:
>>
>> smartcardpp
>> libdigidoc
>> libdigidocpp
>> qesteidutil
>> qdigidoc
>> esteid-browser-plugin
>
> Is this package applicable to any smartcard, or just to Estonian EID?
> The package name sounds quite generic, but from the description it seems
> less clear.
>
> /Simon

smartcardpp is a generic C++ library to access Smart Cards. It just
happens to have been created as a part of the Estonian national ID
card software project, by engineers who prefer to work with
object-oriented languages.

The package is ready to upload, btw. It just needs a sponsor.

Martin-Éric