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vcswatch

To see if packaging VCS repositories have changes that have not yet been uploaded, there is now a service called "vcswatch" running at qa.debian.org which grabs the Sources files from unstable and experimental, notes all Vcs-* URLs, makes checkouts and compares the debian/changelog file seen there with the current version in the archive. There's also a column in DDPO showing the information.

-- Christoph Berg

Approach to fixing privacy breaches in HTML

lintian now has a series of tags aimed at detecting potential privacy breaches. The detection is aimed mostly at HTML documents, where browsers usually fetch remote resources (images, CSS, JS, video, audio etc) by default. The fetching of remote resources is thus a potential privacy breach. Some developers have been fixing these issues in inappropriate ways; for example completely removing the problematic section of a document. Much better ways to fix this issue include; turning images into text, turning audio/video into links or making a local copy of the remote resources. When making local copies one should ensure the material is DFSG-free and isn't packaged already. It is especially to do this right for links to upstream donation or social media pages since Debian does not want to adversely affect the income or promotion of our upstreams as our success is closely linked to theirs.

-- Paul Wise

gobby service static exports

The gobby service has added static exports via HTTP so you can view the content even if you only have a web browser.

-- Paul Wise

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