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So this is a rather short presentation

on 7 slides. It was originally planned

for a lightning talk, but i managed to

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

Ok, so i am presenting today:

DUCK, the Debian URL checker.

The reason why i made this is exactly this:

You see a debcheckout here, with bugs

showing that it basically does not work.

This was in a time where i tried to increase

my involvement into Debian, and i felt like:

This should be fixed somehow.

In the debian/control file are several URLs defined

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

which in this case shows me:

"No repository found". Probabyl you have already

seen such a screen.

So the basic idea behind DUCK is:

I check those links and entries in the control-file

on a daily basis. Currently we have about ~2300

packages which have broken URLs. These are eiter

homepages, or problems with the email addresses

of the maintainers or some other problems with

URLs. There is also a package availabe which you

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

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

your packages until the end of DebConf 15

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

a very short time announcement , but i have still a

bag of lighters here. And if your really promise me

hard to fix your stuff you can take one out.

Thank you!