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deb.li - the Debian ShortURL Service - beta test

After several other Debian developers convinced me that a ShortURL service, which is under control of a Debian Developer would be useful for them, I've spent some time to write the necessary code for it. And if it will be used regulary, I'll ask DSA if they want to host it on a proper machine.

So I'm happy to announce the public beta test of deb.li (also available under go.debian.net)! Please note that neither the content of the pages nor the CSS is finished... :)

As this should not become just another random, spammer-attracting ShortURL service, I will not provide a web based form to add new URLs. Instead new URLs have to be added via a simple JSON-RPC based interface. Other ways to add new URLs will be added on request (or by sending patches ;)), at least an email-gateway similar to db.debian.org is planned.

The small piece of documentation which exists so far is available at wiki.debian.org/deb.li And if you want to give it a try now, log into alioth.debian.org and have a look into 

/var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/users/bzed/godebian-client
- the usage is documented in the README file and should be pretty straight forward.

I hope it will be useful - comments, bugreports and patches are welcome!

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gimp-plugin-registry package updated

Yesterday I finally found the time to update gimp-plugin-registry, the (hopefully!) largest and best collection of plugins for The GIMP. As usual here comes a short summary of the changes:

  • The wonderful scripts from El Samuko are included now:
    • Antique Photo Border Script
    • Che Guevara Script
    • Cyanotype Script
    • Difference Layer Script
    • Escape Line Script
    • Film Grain Script
    • First Photo Border Script
    • Lomo Script with Old Style Colors
    • Movie 300 Script
    • National Geographic Script
    • Obama "HOPE" Script
    • Rainy Landscape Script
    • Photochrom Script
    • Sprocket Hole Script
    • Sunny Landscape Script
    • Technicolor 2 Color Script
    • Technicolor 3 Color Script
    • Vintage Look Script
  • Included the X11 Mouce Curser (XMC) plugin as requested by KiBi.
  • Removed the GREYStoration plugin. This plugin was superseded by the gimp-gmic plugin, which is built from the gmic source. Most of the packaging work was done by Jakub Wilk (thanks!), it is waiting in NEW currently. Btw, gmic lives in the collab-maint git folder, don't hesitate to help with the packaging work.
  • The following plugins were updated:
    • focus-blur
    • contactsheet
    • normalmap
    • save-for-web
    • seperate+

Hope you like my work, suggestions and bug reports are welcome as usual!

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