Since we already have a working fix for thinkfinger why would nobody add it to the official repo? For example for business users working fingerprint authentication may be an important criterion to use or not to use Ubuntu and since thinkfinger did work in Hardy, Jaunty and Karmic, for a lot of people doing dist-upgrade to Lucid this bug might become a really bad surprise!
Since we already have a working fix for thinkfinger why would nobody add it to the official repo? For example for business users working fingerprint authentication may be an important criterion to use or not to use Ubuntu and since thinkfinger did work in Hardy, Jaunty and Karmic, for a lot of people doing dist-upgrade to Lucid this bug might become a really bad surprise!