On Sunday 08 May 2005 23:28, Tobias Stefan Richter wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Note that while the bug probably matters to you a great deal - after all > > you took the time report it - it does not qualify for the severity level > > "important" as defined by the Debian BTS instructions. > > To understand the issue correctly: What can be done with chipcard-tools > without installing further libraries, not declared as a dependency? [...] The problem is this: Some drivers are binary-only and will never come with a license acceptable to Debian (e.g. Kobil drivers). So for some readers the user will *always* have to install the drivers himself.
By not setting up dependencies for drivers you do not render Libchipcard useless, since you don't deny the user the possiblity to install drivers himself. On the other hand filing dependencies for the already available GPL drivers will result in the user installing a Cyberjack or Towitoko driver even if he rather has a Kobil device. This will most likely confuse the user... Depending on drivers is only acceptable if drivers for *all* (or at least most generally used) readers are available, IMHO. regards Martin -- "Things are only impossible until they're not" LibChipcard - http://www.libchipcard.de/ AqBanking - http://www.aquamaniac.de/aqbanking/ OpenHBCI - http://www.openhbci.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
