X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/9d5d61b369813c629b8ccc20c37082dd1bcb2eba..ddc75c9d20b6bf2f3c2e2401c5d0cd248ebfa966:/blog/archive/2012/12/12.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2012/12/12.rss b/blog/archive/2012/12/12.rss index 267d424b2d..23a604cd37 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2012/12/12.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2012/12/12.rss @@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ Debian</a> again to try to recover my old bitcoin wallet. The package 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 It is only available in Sid (and a outdated client from +Wheezy. It is only available in Sid (and an outdated client from backports).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 @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Debian package. </p> <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 @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Debian is a small step in the right direction, but not enough. 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>