Comment 129 for bug 285089

Not at all? I'm not sure what your point is. However, the full story—if that's what you're after—is this: Ray and a few others first reverse-engineered the protocol and wrote a standalone application. Then work on libfprint driver started, but it stalled more than a year ago. Sergio picked it up, made it work properly and submitted a patch upstream. The patch has been committed today, and the PPA contains pristine upstream code with no additional patches whatsoever.