Or, BEID of the same version. Oh well.

It took me a while, but I finally managed to jump through all the hoops[1] required by backports.org correctly and in the right order for the package of the above version to appear there. So if you're running sarge, have an electronic ID card and a smartcard reader, and want to see what the government knows about you, then go ahead and install them. More info on how that works can be found on the backports.org website.

There are two known issues as of now: first, you may get wrong root certificate errors; second, you need to install all packages from the belpic source package, or some things may fail. I intend to properly fix these two bugs Real Soon Now(TM), but I'm having issues reproducing the first one and am trying to wrap my head around being policy-compliant and produce working packages at the same time, which is required to fix the second one. It's slightly ugly; believe me, you don't want to hear the details.

Speaking of ugly, SCons is not ugly. It's downright hideous. I'll have autotools any day.

If you're not running sarge but are using Ubuntu 6.06 'Dapper Drake', then you will need different backports. Luc Stroobant was kind enough to provide them; use deb http://www.stroobant.be/eid ./ in your sources.list to get them.

[1] they are not many, but I managed to break my upload three times or so before it actually worked. And since I don't know about any status page or so, I needed to ask people every time—which I don't want to overdo, so I give them a while before investigating. Next time I probably won't...