Control: tags -1 + confirmed On Wed, 2020-01-29 at 21:03 +0100, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: > Control: tags -1 - moreinfo > > Hi Adam, > > thanks a lot for looking into this. > > * Adam D. Barratt <[email protected]> [2020-01-28 22:47]: > > On Thu, 2019-10-31 at 14:00 +0100, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote: > > > I would like to integrate new upstream versions of hbci4java and > > > hibiscus into Debian 10 (buster). Hibiscus is a electronic > > > banking > > > software and hbci4java the underlying library. The update is > > > necessary because of the new EU directive on payment services > > > (PSD2) > > > [1], leading to changes in the interfaces of most European banks > > > and > > > thus breaking Hibiscus for most users. > > > > > > Due to the new upstream versions, the diff is quiet big (~1MB) so > > > I > > > only include links to the diff [2, 3] here. I can send the full > > > diff > > > as well, if you prefer. > > > > They are quite large, particularly the hbci4java diff. :-( I guess > > it's > > unlikely that such a large change would be needed again during > > buster's > > lifetime? > > I surely hope not. The EU regulation making this change needed is > from 2015 but banks where only required to implement it by 14th of > September 2019 and most banks implemented it to this date or even > afterwards. > Even worse, every bank implemented it slightly different so upstream > had to wait for the banks to implement the client side. I'm not aware > of new regulation and the predecessor was from 2007, so we should be > save for the coming ~12 years ;).
Before I forget yet again, and as per our IRC discussions, let's do this. Regards, Adam
