Ubuntu
thinkfinger package

  1. Bug #378416
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 378416

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Tom Jaeger (thjaeger) wrote : Re: [Bug 378416] Re: Thinkfinger cleanup

This makes no sense. If the package is dropped from debian, we should
be free to do whatever we want with the package.

fprint is not an acceptable replacement for thinkfinger, as it allows
password login only after fingerprint authentication has timed out (i.e.
after 30 seconds!).

Michael Terry wrote:
> Tom, thanks for your work on this. However, it's generally not a good
> idea to rework orig.tar.gz files and diverge from Debian. Sticking as
> close to Debian as possible means less work for us in the future
> (allowing syncs and the like).
>
> So I would normally close this bug and suggest that you file a bug with
> Debian to get them to change how they find/generate their orig.tar.gz
> files. Except, I notice that in Debian, thinkfinger has been removed
> from the archive in favor of FingerForce. So I'm just going to close
> this. But again, thanks for your work.
>
> ** Changed in: thinkfinger (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Won't Fix
>
> ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #546005
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546005
>