Your message dated Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:11:33 -0400 with message-id <aMD6ddnrTXRdXCHl@colossus> and subject line Re: Bug#768927: Use the vendor driver for PC/SC has caused the Debian Bug report #768927, regarding opensc: OpenCT missing. Was removed in 760258 to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: opensc Version: 0.13 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? OpenSC is the "driver"/"middleware" for talking to smartcards. It depends on OpenCT, which is the driver for the Card Terminals. OpenCT is also maintained by the opensc project, which is now hosted at github. With bug #760258 openct was removed, so that opensc can not be used anymore, since tools like the opensc-explorer do not find any card terminal anymore. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Tried to run Aladdin eToken Pro 64K. It could not be found, due to the missing openct package. The card terminal could not be found. * What was the outcome of this action? the card terminal software was not available. No card terminal / card reader could be found, aladdin etoken could not be found and not be used. * What outcome did you expect instead? OpenSC needs to be available. OpenSC should contain a dependency on OpenCT. OpenCT should be installable and the etoken should be accessed. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 0.23.0 Given it's been a decade since OpenCT went away, I'm going to close this. * Martin Paljak ([email protected]) wrote: > http://acsccid.sourceforge.net/ > > OpenCT as a Linux only, unmaintained software interface should be > discouraged and is hardly a sensible choice with modern and > standards-compliant hardware (check the list of supported readers of > libccid) > -- Eric Dorland <[email protected]> 43CF 1228 F726 FD5B 474C E962 C256 FBD5 0022 1E93
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