Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-08 Thread Mark Pearson
On 06/03/2021 11:24, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: >>> "Mark" == Mark Pearson writes: >> >> Mark> It's just a case of needing the libfprint and fprintd packages >> Mark> installed and then under settings->user you can start >>

Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 9:52 AM wrote: > Surely there is some "canonical" way of dealing with "oh, this shiny > piece of hardware has just appeared; what do you want to do with > it?". The isenkram package is meant to do this, it relies on the packages containing hardware support announcing this

Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-07 Thread tomas
On Sat, Mar 06, 2021 at 06:24:49PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: [...] > If it is instead installed by hardware detection (through > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect), then it will be > installed on all systems that have a fingerprint reader (and which don't > have it disabled

Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 4:29 PM Wouter Verhelst wrote: > If it is instead installed by hardware detection (through > https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/hw-detect), I think that the isenkram package is meant to replace this, it relies on the packages containing hardware support announcing

Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Mark" == Mark Pearson writes: > > Mark> It's just a case of needing the libfprint and fprintd packages > Mark> installed and then under settings->user you can start > Mark> registering your prints. > > Right, and

Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-06 Thread Mark Pearson
On 05/03/2021 18:14, Sam Hartman wrote: >> "Mark" == Mark Pearson writes: > > Mark> It's just a case of needing the libfprint and fprintd packages > Mark> installed and then under settings->user you can start > Mark> registering your prints. > > Right, and the desktop

Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-05 Thread Mark Pearson
Thanks Sam & Wouter On 05/03/2021 02:52, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 05:57:15PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: >> The parts of Debian that are trying to do that are some of the desktop >> environments. So, I'd approach the maintainers of Gnome and KDE and >> see if they are

Re: [External] Re: Debian and fingerprint readers

2021-03-05 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Mark" == Mark Pearson writes: Mark> It's just a case of needing the libfprint and fprintd packages Mark> installed and then under settings->user you can start Mark> registering your prints. Right, and the desktop maintainers could choose to make their desktop meta packages