While looking at pcsc-tools and pcscs-perl (only needed for the
dependency from pcscs-tools) I have found that these are not really
depended on by anything important.
This matches the statement in the request that says:
"This package provides general utilities for smartcards; it's possible that we
do not strictly need this package for our use case."
Use case wise it contains:
- /usr/bin/ATR_analysis
Tool to analyze the raw ATR answer from a smart card - debugging tool at best
and
no common use case
- /usr/bin/scriptor + /usr/bin/gscriptor
Send scripts to a smartcard, that might be a developer or debugging feature
but doesn't sound
an end user thing for the enterprise desktop you have in mind.
- /usr/bin/pcsc_scan
This is the one end-user useful tool in this toolset showing the available
cards that are
inserted. But honestly you want to integrate things in an enterprise desktop
and there I'd
expect a UI-thing for it and not this cmdline tool. At the same time nothing
in gnome or
anywhere else related depends on it.
IMHO we should not promote packages to main we have no real use and
integration of.
If there is a good case how this plays a role in the envisioned
"Enterprise Desktop smartcard integration" then I'm more than happy to
review and process this (in that case also say why/why-not pcscd is
important - see above).
MIR Team Nack to pcsc-tools and pcscs-perl for the (currently) given
dependencies and reasoning.
** Changed in: pcsc-perl (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Changed in: pcsc-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Changed in: pcsc-perl (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) => (unassigned)
** Changed in: pcsc-tools (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) => (unassigned)
** Changed in: pcsc-lite (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Christian Ehrhardt (paelzer) => (unassigned)
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