The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian
One of the lists from popcon.debian.org I find most interesting, is
the list of popular packages currently missing in Debian,
<URL:http://popcon.debian.org/unknown/by_vote>. I understand it to
list the packages our users would love to find in Debian, but which
are currently missing. Some are missing because we can't legally
distribute them, others are missing because no-one is willing to
maintain them in the Debian repositories, while others again are
obsolete and used to be part of Debian.
This is the top 30 list, sorted by vote (aka include files
read/executed last week):
#rank name inst vote old recent no-files
1 skype 5678 3020 2273 380 5
2 acroread-debian-files 4151 2585 1144 421 1
3 opera 3817 2267 1204 341 5
4 lame 7859 2045 5125 686 3
5 transcode 5025 1859 2158 1007 1
6 realplayer 3077 1679 1140 182 76
7 virtualbox 2032 1458 374 198 2
8 mencoder 6064 1432 3678 951 3
9 mjpegtools 5491 1234 3600 656 1
10 emerald 2241 1079 820 342 0
11 dvdrip 2386 791 1351 242 2
12 libnl1-pre8 1390 782 0 9 599
13 avidemux 2471 657 1008 804 2
14 mythtv-backend 824 656 126 42 0
15 libevent-execflow-perl 2570 625 1709 234 2
16 beryl-manager 1369 592 711 63 3
17 nxserver 834 578 193 39 24
18 beryl-core 1604 570 964 69 1
19 adobereader-enu 762 537 161 62 2
20 nxclient 1259 500 655 100 4
21 pine 944 487 429 28 0
22 w32codecs 9231 466 578 118 8069
23 googleearth 1078 461 536 80 1
24 mythtv-frontend 998 433 419 146 0
25 subtitleripper 2091 431 1416 243 1
26 fusion-icon 849 421 184 244 0
27 linux-image-2.6.22-2-686 3842 406 3295 86 55
28 sun-j2sdk1.5 824 406 357 57 4
29 gtk2-ex-formfactory-perl 2585 397 1939 247 2
30 anyevent-perl 2581 393 1906 279 3
I wish all the packages we could distribute on this list was included
in Debian. I believe it would make the life of our users a little
easier.
Package related to Multimedia, PDF and 3D stuff seem to be popular
while missing in Debian. :)
Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
One of the popularity-contest maintainers
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