Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pieter Lenaerts <[email protected]> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
* Package name : eid-mw Version : 5.1.27 * URL : https://github.com/Fedict/eid-mw/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : Support for Belgian Electronic Identity Card Middleware software and viewer for the Belgian PKCS11 electronic identity card. With this, you can: - Communicate with secure websites that require eID authentication - Sign documents and emails using your eID - Using the viewer, read the identity data on eID cards, verify their validity, and store them for future usage - Using the provided API, do all of the above in custom applications of your own. Upstream, i.e. Belgian government, currently distributes Debian packages via a separate repository. A proper Debian package would be more convenient for me: 1. As a sysadmin I find it annoying to add an external repo for what I typically install as one of the first things on an end user / desktop system. 2. Whoopsies happen for example on new Debian releases. https://github.com/Fedict/eid-mw/issues/224#issuecomment-3183601074 3. This would allow derived distros to inherit the packages from Debian, which are currently not supported by the upstream packagers at the Belgian federal government. (https://github.com/Fedict/eid-mw/issues/204 and https://github.com/Fedict/eid-archive/issues/9) I would volounteer to maintain this package. A lot of work is already done upstream. Also, I'm sure there would be other people willing to help to make this more accessible to users. Would need sponsorship. There may be reasons why this package has never been included in Debian. If this discussion already took place in the past somewhere, I didn't find it back. Therefore I think an ITP bug would be the right place to document the reasons.
