Hi,

the latest versions of Libchipcard don't use HAL (or any other hardware-
related library) at all since it now uses the service provided by pcsc.

So this problem is fixed upstream already.


Regards
Martin


On Samstag 03 Juli 2010, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Package: libchipcard-tools
> Version: 4.2.9-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> At least for using USB smartcard "readers" chipcardd still requires HAL
> which has been deprecated by upstream [1]. See also [2] for efforts on
> removing HAL from Debian.
> 
> 
> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-May/011560.html
> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval
> 
> -- Package-specific info:
> Available chipcard readers (output of "chipcard-tool list"):
>   Readers:
>   - auto1-ccid_scm_3310 (ccid_scm_3310, port 0)
> Status of package pcscd (): unknown ok not-installed and apparently stopped
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.6-xo1.5-2-00377-g7f5e423 (PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages libchipcard-tools depends on:
> ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and
>  groups ii  libc6                         2.11.1-3   Embedded GNU C
>  Library: Shared lib ii  libchipcard-data              4.2.9-2   
>  configuration files for libchipcar ii  libchipcardc2                
>  4.2.9-2    library for accessing smartcards ii  libdbus-1-3               
>     1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst ii  libgcc1              
>          1:4.4.4-5  GCC support library
> ii  libgwenhywfar47               3.11.3-1   OS abstraction layer
> ii  libhal1                       0.5.14-2   Hardware Abstraction Layer -
>  share ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.4-5    The GNU Standard C++
>  Library v3 ii  procps                        1:3.2.8-9  /proc file system
>  utilities
> 
> Versions of packages libchipcard-tools recommends:
> ii  hal                           0.5.14-2   Hardware Abstraction Layer
> 
> Versions of packages libchipcard-tools suggests:
> ii  libccid                       1.3.11-1   PC/SC driver for USB CCID
>  smart ca pn  libtowitoko2                  <none>     (no description
>  available)
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 


-- 
"Things are only impossible until they're not"

Martin Preuss - http://www2.aquamaniac.de/
AqBanking - http://www.aqbanking.de/
LibChipcard - http://www.libchipcard.de/



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