Please demote thinkfinger to universe

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Monday 04 May 2009 2:42:16 am Justin Dugger wrote:
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Hello Thomas,
> >
> > Thomas Jaeger [2009-05-03 15:43 -0400]:
> >> In light of this, it would make sense to move the package to
> >> universe, as this would make it at least easier to get fixes for
> >> critical bugs in.
> >
> > Indeed, well spot. I dropped it from the seeds, and demoted it.
> >
> > Laptop FP readers are not a good thing to promote security-wise
> > anyway. :-)
> 
> I wonder how Dell will feel about this.  I recall they politely asked
> for this because their laptops ship with them.

Ah but libfprint 0.1.0 should be out soonish (I think?) and that will have 
updates for that hardware plus add support for *tons* of other fingerprint 
readers.

A snapshot was released around Nov with a warning that upgrading from it may 
not work so great, so waiting for the actual 0.1.0 is probably a good idea. 
Daniel Drake's message about 0.1.0 didn't sound like he was expecting that 
it'd take a year, so I assume it'll be ready before Karmic ships.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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