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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Title: First prototype ready making hardware easier to use in Debian
-Tags: english, debian
+Tags: english, debian, isenkram
 Date: 2013-01-21 12:00
 
 <p>Early this month I set out to try to
@@ -20,11 +20,13 @@ autostart script.</p>
 hw-support-handlerd to start when the user log in.</li>
 
 <li>This program listen for kernel events about new hardware (directly
-from the kernel like udev does).</li>
+from the kernel like udev does), not using HAL dbus events as I
+initially did.</li>
 
 <li>When new hardware is inserted, look up the hardware modalias in
-the APT database, a database available via HTTP and a database
-available as part of the package.</li>
+the APT database, a database
+<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/modaliases?view=markup">available
+via HTTP</a> and a database available as part of the package.</li>
 
 <li>If a package is mapped to the hardware in question, the package
 isn't installed yet and this is the first time the hardware was
@@ -57,4 +59,17 @@ storing such information in the package control file, but could be
 changed to use other formats instead or in addition to the current
 method.  I've dropped the use of discover for this mapping, as the
 modalias approach is more flexible and easier to use on Linux as long
-as the Kernel expose its modalias strings directly.</p>
+as the Linux kernel expose its modalias strings directly.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Update 2013-01-21 16:50</strong>: Due to popular demand,
+here is the command required to check out and build the source: Use
+'<tt>svn checkout
+svn://svn.debian.org/debian-edu/trunk/src/hw-support-handler/; cd
+hw-support-handler; debuild</tt>'.  If you lack debuild, install the
+devscripts package.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Update 2013-01-23 12:00</strong>: The project is now
+renamed to Isenkram and the source moved from the Debian Edu
+subversion repository to a Debian collab-maint git repository.  See
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Welcome_to_the_world__Isenkram_.html">build
+instructions</a> for details.</p>