Please add support for Debian Jessie

[MagicFab]

Debian Jessie (8) was released in April 2015 and is the current stable release. Expected EOL is June 2018.

Thank you for considering adding support for it in the installer.

[metsma]

Can you test which ubuntu packages are working on Jessie

[MagicFab]

I successfully had installed those available in January, haven't tried since then.

[fisher]

+1 for Debian. As of Jul 2017 the stable branch is Debian 9.0 "stretch", https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

And the installation script still looking for outdated Wheezy.

[AlexDaniel]

I think if you're on jessie you can manage to install it, but it's not installable on anything beyond that (with the provided installation script or not). So, on jessie, there is a problem with qesteidutil package:

Depends: fonts-liberation, pcscd (>= 1.5), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libpcsclite1 (>= 1.3.0), libqt5core5a (>= 5.7.0), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.0.2) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.0.2), libqt5network5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.0.2), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.2~beta3), libstdc++6 (>= 6)

There is no 1.0.2 version of libssl1.0.0 package in normal debian repos. If you're on jessie, then perhaps it is installable if you add jessie-backports repository. That should work, I think I had it installed on jessie eventually.

However, on other versions of debian (even when using artful packages) it seems to be broken beyond repair:

opensc : Depends: libreadline6 (>= 6.0) but it is not installable

libreadline6 is not a thing anymore in debian.

How come there is no proper support for debian when it comes to such an essential package? And while we are at it, why can't we have it included in debian repos? What's blocking it?

[teadur]

You can use the debian jessie backports version of openssl on Stretch.
But actualy its now impossible to use id card on debian jessie, becaue RIA decided to drop support for ubuntu trusty packages, so basicaly only Debian you can use id card is Stretch with debian jessie backported openssl (what a mess) and ubuntu xenial packages.

I talked to RIA support about why the decided to drop trusty packages and their response was that so few people are using ubuntu trusty ( and debian wheezy/jessie) that they decided to drop the support in favor of Ubuntu 17.x because its so big effort to keep supporting old releases ( i dont know how that makes any sense when the software releases are really stable on older linuxes, how it could be big effort remains mystery to me)

[AlexDaniel]

Eh, that's unacceptable. If RIA themselves are doing such a piss-poor job, who'd be the right person to contact if we want to get things moving into the right direction?

[metsma]

There is always possible to create own packages and repos. Like other distros are doing Gentoo, SuSe, Mandriva, Fedora and Slack

[AlexDaniel]

@metsma what do you even mean? 😕 Are you saying that users are supposed to share .deb packages with each other for security related software?

[metsma]

Or you can become maintainer and push packages to upstream

[teadur]

If i would be good at debian packaging i would surely do it, but sadly i'm not.
I think the most sane solution would be to get RIA re-support trusty but i dont see that happening.

I dont think its trivial to become debian maintainer and get the packages to upstream and even if its done the packages would show up at buster not stretch or any of the releases mentioned here.

Cleanest solution would be that RIA does the packages right, sadly if they havent packaged for Debian last 10 years i dont see that happening, second best would be that they bring back trusty support then we can workaround the issue and fix the installer.

joke
I think only way to get it done is to contact "Equal Treatment Commissioner"
/joke

[MagicFab]

Debian Jessie is now "old-stable". I'll open a new ticket requesting support for Debian and explain why it's important (and more viable).

[AlexDaniel]

@metsma

Or you can become maintainer and push packages to upstream

Please see #42.

[metsma]

@metsma

Or you can become maintainer and push packages to upstream

Please see #42.

This out of context comment and applies only for IDEMIA driver packages.
As as stated before, feel free to become debian maintainer and publish packages to debian.
Debian is community maintained distribution and you have all tools and code available to contribute packages to debian.
Debian policy also states that submitter cannot be company or organization which RIA is.

[MagicFab]

@metsma @AlexDaniel please discuss in #16 - this issue is not current and it's closed. #16 refers to proper support in Debian Stable.