"Keeping track with packaging software which is under heavy development can be time-consuming. I noticed this while packaging Conkeror, because there was quite a demand for up-to-date packages, especially from upstream themself. So recently on the IRC channel #conkeror the idea of automatically built Debian packages came up.

"I already mentioned a few times in the blog that I’m working on a Debian package of the Conkeror web browser. And now, after a lot of fine-tuning (and I still further new ideas how to improve the package ;-) Conkeror is finally in the NEW queue and hopefully will hit unstable in a few days..."

"...When I started Conkeror, I was a bit surprised. The browser is stripped down to the very basics and you have to configure it yourself. It comes with a brief tutorial on how to do the very basic things and you can find a lot of configuration tips at the Conkeror Wiki.

"Fellow conkerors, Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites on the web today, so it would be ridiculous to not improve the experience using a Conkeror page mode! Wikipedia mode is now officially in the git repo..."

"I've recently switched to Conkeror as my primary browser. It started life as a Firefox extension, but nowadays it's a standalone app built on top of Mozilla's xulrunner, so it uses the Gecko rendering engine.

Conkeror is a Web browser with an Emacs-style look, feel and configuration. It uses Firefox's HTML rendering engine and works with most Firefox extensions. It's a fitting Web browser for Netbooks.

"Conkeror is a free, keyboard-driven, Mozilla-based web browser. It borrows as many key bindings as it can from GNU Emacs. It was written by Shawn Betts. Formerly a Mozilla Firefox extension, it is now developed for XULRunner as a stand-alone application..." -- via Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

" If you're interested in the MySQL packages in Debian, join #debian-mysql on OFTC. Most people involved into the packages are hanging around there."

You can't argue Debian's irrelevance using Ubuntu as an example. If you're using Ubuntu (or Linux Mint, or Mepis...), you're really using Debian with some enhancements. According to a presentation given recently by Debian Project Leader (DPL) Stefano Zacchiroli, only 7% of Ubuntu is directly derived from upstream projects, Canonical's projects, or other non-Debian sources.