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This was mostly discussed in the upstream issue [1] and also in previous bug #1449740 (fixed in RHEL7.5), where we were trying to match both PIV specification and coolkey-like behavior.
Lets start with PIV specification to clarify why we do that. The PIV cards can have two PINs and internal structures in the card specify what PIN the user should be asked for. Therefore it makes sense to present this information also to the user. On the other hand, really, most of the users with PIV cards will have selected the first PIN and they will never see the "Global PIN" label.
Before RHEL7.5 (#1449740), OpenSC was showing only the PIN type:
token label : PIV Card Holder pin (PIV_II)
token label : Global PIN (PIV_II)
From RHEL7.5, we added a cardholder identification from certificates on the card so the possible PINs have the following structure:
token label : Test Cardholder X
token label : Global PIN (Test Cardholder VII)
The important thing here is that only SOME [2] of the testing cards require the Global PIN and therefore they have modified the label to indicate it. This was perceived by Roshni as an inconsistency (?) and therefore we decided to open this low-priority bug to revisit the issue for the next release.
For me, this is still not a bug, but a feature. But I am open for discussion if you believe otherwise.
[1] https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/pull/1133
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449740#c9