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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-Title: Why isn't Linux desktops installing the hw support packages automatically?
-Tags: english, debian
-Date: 2013-01-09 15:30
+Title: Lets make hardware dongles easier to use in Debian
+Tags: english, debian, isenkram
+Date: 2013-01-09 15:40
 
 <p>One thing that annoys me with Debian and Linux distributions in
 general, is that there is a great package management system with the
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ I need to talk to it.  When I plug in a Yubikey, it could propose the
 yubikey-personalization package.  The information required to do this
 is available, but no-one have pulled all the pieces together.</p>
 
-<p>Many years ago, I proposed to
+<p>Some years ago, I proposed to
 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg01206.html">use
 the discover subsystem to implement this</a>.  The idea is fairly
 simple:
@@ -50,11 +50,12 @@ Debian Edu subversion repository</a>.  In the process, I updated the
 package to map the USB ids of LEGO Mindstorms and Yubikey devices to
 the relevant packages in Debian, and uploaded a new version
 2.2013.01.09 to unstable.  I also discovered that the current 
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover-data.html">discover</a>
-package in Debian no longer found any USB devices, because
-/proc/bus/usb/devices no longer is present, and ported it to use
-libusb as a fall back option.  The fixed package version 2.1.2-6 is
-now in experimental.</p>
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/discover.html">discover</a>
+package in Debian no longer discovered any USB devices, because
+/proc/bus/usb/devices is no longer present.  I ported it to use
+libusb as a fall back option to get it working.  The fixed package
+version 2.1.2-6 is now in experimental (didn't upload it to unstable
+because of the freeze).</p>
 
 <p>With this prototype in place, I can insert my Yubikey, and get this
 desktop notification to show up (only once, the first time it is
@@ -63,8 +64,8 @@ inserted):</p>
 <p align="center"><img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-01-09-hw-autoinstall.png"></p>
 
 <p>For this prototype to be really useful, some way to automatically
-install the proposed packages by pressing the button should to be
-implemented.</p>
+install the proposed packages by pressing the "Please install
+program(s)" button should to be implemented.</p>
 
 <p>If this idea seem useful to you, and you want to help make it
 happen, please help me update the discover-data database with mappings