On 4/9/25 22:16, Patrick Winnertz wrote:
Hey,
Yubico has recently published it's EOL notification for the yubikey-
manager gui [1]. The yubioath-desktop version which we ship within
debian is already >3 years outated (and EOL) as yubico started to
rewrite the app in flutter [2]. There is a also a RFP for flutter from
2019, but nobody seems to care or to work on [3].
Over the time this new yubioath-flutter gui was renamed to yubico
authenticator and all (or almost all) functionality of the yubikey-
manager gui was added. [4] The EOL notification for the old gui is
(sadly) the next logical step.
Due to missing dependencies (e.g. dart language [5], flutter [6])
we are currently unable to ship the new app. This looks at a first
glance as a bunch of work, which I can't handle alone. For me it looks
like as if a complete new programming language + gui framework needs to
be packaged + a lot of dart packages as dependencies.
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To sum it up:
Debian will be no longer able to ship a upstream maintained gui
configurator for a security related device, which is also broadly used
by fellow DDs. To change the situation a new programming language + gui
framework needs to be packaged.
Any suggestions/help on how to improve this miserable situation is
appreciated.
IMO, this isn't as miserable as you are saying. Unless I missed
something, there's still the command line thingy that works quite well, no?
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
