The news are collected on https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. In this issue: + vcswatch + Approach to fixing privacy breaches in HTML + gobby service static exports + BTS reply links vcswatch -------- To see if packaging VCS repositories have changes that have not yet been uploaded, there is now[1] a service called vcswatch[2] 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 [1] https://lists.debian.org/20140704210432.GB18726@msg.df7cb.de [2] https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/vcswatch 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[3] has added static exports[4] via HTTP so you can view the content even if you only have a web browser. -- Paul Wise [3] https://wiki.debian.org/Services/gobby.debian.org [4] https://wiki.debian.org/gobby.debian.org#Static_exports BTS reply links --------------- Don Armstrong has added reply links to each mail in the BTS web interface that set the References/In-Reply-To headers correctly so that people clicking mailto links on bug pages will not break threads as long as their browser and MUA support mailto links properly. The links also include a proper Subject header and a proper message body for your convenience. Please use these links to avoid breaking BTS threads. Another way to avoid breaking threads is to run bts show --mbox 123456 and reply from your MUA as you usually would. The Debian mailing list archives also have similar headers, please use those when reading lists via the archives. -- Paul Wise -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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