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So this is a rather short presentation

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on 7 slides. It was originally planned

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for a lightning talk, but i managed to

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hand in my proposal too late, so....

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Ok, so i am presenting today:

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DUCK, the Debian URL checker.

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The reason why i made this is exactly this:

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You see a debcheckout here, with bugs

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showing that it basically does not work.

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This was in a time where i tried to increase

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my involvement into Debian, and i felt like:

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This should be fixed somehow.

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In the debian/control file are several URLs defined

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e.g. ths Vcs-Git: URL, or the Vcs-Browser: URL,

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which in this case shows me:

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"No repository found". Probabyl you have already

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seen such a screen.

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So the basic idea behind DUCK is:

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I check those links and entries in the control-file

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on a daily basis. Currently we have about ~2300

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packages which have broken URLs. These are eiter

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homepages, or problems with the email addresses

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of the maintainers or some other problems with

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URLs. There is also a package availabe which you

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can run locally and also show you informations about problems with links.

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I also made a challenge. So if you fix one of

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your packages until the end of DebConf 15

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you get one of those awsome lighters. I know this is

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a very short time announcement , but i have still a

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bag of lighters here. And if your really promise me

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hard to fix your stuff you can take one out.

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Thank you!