is now maintained by a
<a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-bitcoin/">team of
people</a>, and the grunt work had already been done by this team. We
-own a huge thank you to all these team members. :)
+owe a huge thank you to all these team members. :)
But I was sad to discover that the bitcoin client is missing in
-Wheezy. It is only available in Sid (and a outdated client from
+Wheezy. It is only available in Sid (and an outdated client from
backports). The client had several RC bugs registered in BTS blocking
it from entering testing. To try to help the team and improve the
situation, I spent some time providing patches and triaging the bug
<p>After checking with the main package maintainer Jonas Smedegaard on
IRC, I pushed several patches into the collab-maint git repository to
-improve the package. It now contain fixes for the RC issues (not from
+improve the package. It now contains fixes for the RC issues (not from
me, but fixed by Scott Howard), build rules for a Qt GUI client
package, konqueror support for the bitcoin: URI and bash completion
setup. As I work on Debian Squeeze, I also created
Unfortunately the user experience when browsing the web and wanting to
pay with bitcoin is still not very good. The bitcoin: URI is a step
in the right direction, but need to work in most or every browser in
-use. Also the bitcoin-qt client is too heavy to fire it up to do a
+use. Also the bitcoin-qt client is too heavy to fire up to do a
quick transaction. I believe there are other clients available, but
have not tested them.</p>