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New Iceweasel add-on to help looking up developer sites
A new Firefox/Iceweasel add-on Debian buttons was packaged by Tanguy Ortolo. The add-on makes available several toolbar buttons that can be used to quickly lookup information in the BTS, PTS, packages.debian.org, mailing list archive, DDPO, Build daemon logs and the security tracker. The keyword for the lookup is taken from the clipboard, so no keyboard is required.
-- Damyan Ivanov
Realtime collaborative text editing services for Debian
There are now a number of realtime collaborative text editing services for Debian available. Stefano Zacchiroli reported that there is now a Titanpad instance for Debian (web-based). In addition there is a Mobwrite instance for Debian (also web-based), which provides a simpler, text-only interface. For those who prefer not to use JavaScript-based applications, gobby.debian.org is up and running, you will need to install gobby-0.5 and run gobby-0.5 to access it. Both Titanpad and Gobby also have integrated chat systems. Both Titanpad/Etherpad and Mobwrite are not yet packaged for Debian.
-- Paul Wise
DEP9: Availability of reconf-inetd (replacement of update-inetd)
Maintainers of packages that provide services that
- require separate inetd.conf entries for ipv4/ipv6 versions
- have more than one implementation in the archive (eg. proftpd vs ftpd-ssl)
are encouraged to test their packages with reconf-inetd, currently in experimental.
For details see the announcement in debian-devel.
-- Serafeim Zanikolas
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