• Re: Call for help: Dart/flutter & yubico-authenticator

    From Thomas Goirand@21:1/5 to Patrick Winnertz on Thu Apr 10 10:10:01 2025
    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.

    ==
    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)

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  • From Matthew Vernon@21:1/5 to Patrick Winnertz on Fri Apr 11 17:10:02 2025
    Patrick Winnertz <winnie@debian.org> writes:

    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].

    Mmm, I wrote a Flutter app a while back and looked at the work needed to
    get dart & flutter packaged for Debian and ran away :-/

    Matthew

    --
    "At least you know where you are with Microsoft."
    "True. I just wish I'd brought a paddle."
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