SSH and opensc

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 03:21:06PM +0300, Ilkka Tuohela wrote:
> 
> I was going to enter a wishlist bug against SSH to get smartcard support
> to the default packages, but then I noticed that opensc is in universe
> and SSH can't depend on something in universe.
> 
> Any hope getting opensc + libraries to main so that we could compile SSH
> with support for keys on smartcards? Similarly I would like to see PAM
> support for smartcards in main, now the libpam-opensc is as well in
> universe.

Regarding Ubuntu main:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMainInclusionRequirements

Regarding opensc support in openssh:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=231472

> So, what is the reason for these packages being in universe? Too new or
> unreliable (current version is 0.9.6) or license issues? 

All packages imported from Debian reside in universe unless explicitly
selected for main.

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 - mdz