pcsc-lite for main?

[Alexander Sack]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 03:45:18PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 02:44:07PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > Hi fellow Developers,
> > 
> > cf. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/247689 for background.
> > 
> > wpa_supplicant is now able to use smartcards for authentication. However
> > this requires wpasupplicant to be built against pcsc-lite, which is in
> > universe.
> > 
> > I personally do not have access to such a network, so I cannot really
> > test it myself. However I have no reason to believe that this wouldn't
> > work, so I'm inclined to not disable this feature from the ubuntu
> > package.
> > 
> > Currently, pcsc-lite is in intrpeid/universe. It builds the following
> > binary packages:
> > 
> > pcscd: The main daemon
> > libpcsclite-dev: Development libraries
> > libpcsclite1: The library itself.
> > 
> > Since, as said I don't use that feature myself (I do use pcscd for my
> > GPG card, though), I don't really think I'm qualified to do a full
> > MIR. For wpasupplicant, it would be sufficient to have libpcsclite1 and
> > libpcsclite-dev in main so that the package can be built against that.
> > I therefore ask if a full MIR is required, or if we can do a leveraged
> > process for libpcsclite1 and libpcsclite-dev only.
> > 
> > What do others think about this? would someone support that partial MIR?
> > 
> > The other option we have would be to disable smartcard support from the
> > wpasupplicant package, which I don't think is the most desireable option
> > we have.
> 
> I think there it would be much better if there were someone in the Ubuntu
> project who could look after it (i.e. uses the necessary hardware and
> service).  Have you heard from anyone?
> 
> How complex is the API?  Perhaps it could be made to dlopen() the library
> (and Suggest it) rather than build-depending.
> 

FWIW, I wrote a MIR for just the library part for now.

Reinhard, maybe you can ask wpasupplicant upstream what they think
about adding dlopen code?

 - Alexander