[Bug 378416] Re: Thinkfinger cleanup

[Justin Dugger]

Tom, thinkfinger is dead upstream. At this point, if you want to
continue the thinkfinger project you should consider adopting it
upstream. Hiding your patches in a bug tracker and in a debian dir is
the equivalent of three week's notice behind  the sign that says "Beware
of Tiger," and is not going to achieve the level of quality a security
system requires.

While I agree that the Ubuntu developer who prepared this package
against svn make substantial errors that should be corrected if
thinkfinger continues, I don't think it's a forgone conclusion that it
should. You mention fprint is doesn't accept passwords, but it should be
relatively simple to change libpam-fprint to accept a password and pass
the results down the pam stack.

It might be worth considering dropping thinkfinger for ubuntu+2
entirely, if we can get eyeballs looking for regressions.

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Thinkfinger cleanup
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378416
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