Took a look at this at a BSP--- Honestly, it looks like something that upstream (who also happens to be the Debian maintainer) should fix or request for the package to be removed from Debian. Without an active upstream, an alpha authentication package is of little use to Debian users.
I was also able to reproduce the same failure behaviour as the original reporter. cheers, Christine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org