screenshots.debian.net goes beta

Roberto Sanchez and I proposed to create a service to provide screenshots for Debian packages. And with a little work, a lot of Pylons frameworking power and a tad of jQuery spice I created the 'debexpo' software that provides a nice-looking web site doing exactly that. The service is already up and running at screenshots.debian.net. This is still the phase where I have to sort out a few minor technical, legal and organisational issues. And thanks to a friendly fellow Pylons' user I have now a place to host the service (my vpslink-sponsored server is already overloaded). Once all the subleties are sorted out I will announce the service to debian-devel-announce and hope to get mentioned in the weekly news.

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Minor issue I know, but I

Minor issue I know, but I personally would insert the '(just type the first letters)' on the upload page using Javascript, since the autocomplete functionality won't be available to users with Javascript disabled.

I think a simple filter

I think a simple filter (ending on -dbg / -data or starting with lib) be applyed (also for the name suggestion when uploading)

I had a good time using SQLAlchemy but didn't use it for an actual project, just toying around - used elixir latly: less to write and still everything possible :) Hope you get your problems sorted out soon.

If there is a list of pkgs that need a screenshot it shoulb be trivial to do the local checking.

Thanks for your fast answer!

A point the guidelines

A point the guidelines doesn't cover: How do you handle versioning? I was up to take a screenshot of gimp but realized I use the version out of experimental. I think saving the verion of the package would be a nice addition.

PS sorry for spamming your blog.