[Bug 378416] Re: Thinkfinger cleanup

[Tom Jaeger]

I have neither the time nor enough knowledge about its internals to even
consider taking over the project.  I just want things to work smoothly:
Thinkfinger is stable enough that it only takes minimal effort to keep
up with minor kernel or X changes that happen over time.  But one thing
is for sure:  Having a basically unmaintainable package is not going to
help improve the quality or the security of the system and we don't lose
anything by replacing the current mess by something more manageable.

It really doesn't make any sense to shove fprint down people's throats
before it has reached feature parity with thinkfinger.  If fprint
developers feel that thinkfinger's solution to the password problem is
not acceptable to them, they need to push for improvements in pam.  If
they can't do that, I consider the project just as dead as thinkfinger.
I'm certainly not going to spend my time writing a patch that upstream
won't accept and then try getting it into ubuntu, I'd rather fight for
thinkfinger to stay until they (fprint) get this basic usability issue
sorted out.

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