About Debian buttons
Example use case
Available buttons
Installation
No buttons?
Releases
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

About Debian buttons

Debian buttons is an addon to Mozilla Firefox web browser adding several toolbar buttons. Pressing a button takes a keyword from the system clipboard and uses it to look up information from some Debian web site. Each button uses a different site.

Example use case

You see mention of Debian bug #654896 and you want to take a look at it. Double-click on the bug number to select it and then click on the 'BTS' button on your toolbar. That's it, no keyboard involved. Don't worry if double-clicking selects the leading dash or a trailing coma etc. The selection is cleaned automatically. Clicking on the button with the middle mouse button opens the information page in a new browser tab.

Same way can be used for looking up a package in the Package Tracking System etc. Just select the input data and press the button you need.

Available buttons

BTS – Debian Bug tracking System. Input: bug number or package name.
PTS – Debian Package Tracking System. Input: (source) package name.
deb – Debian package. Input: (binary) package name.
@ – Debian mailing lists. Input: Message-ID.
DD – Debian Developer Packages Overview. Input: maintainer email (uid is enough for DDs)
bldd – Build daemon logs. Input: source package name.
sec – Security tracker. Input: source package name or CVE ID.

Installation

The easiest way to install Debian buttons is to use the page at addons.mozilla.org. Debian users would want to use the package.

No buttons?

No buttons are added to the toolbar by default.

After installing the addon and restarting the browser, right-click on any toolbar and select Customize…. A dialog window will open containing available toolbar buttons. Find the Debian buttons you need and drag them on your toolbar. That's it.

In the future the addon may add a 'Debian' toolbar and fill it with all available buttons automatically, but this needs to be done in a way that is not annoying to users that have already placed the buttons they need.

Releases

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Debian Open Use Logo License

The logo without “Debian” is released under the following common free software license.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

All the rest

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.