Re: The 30 most popular packages missing in Debian
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:57:25PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Let's reiterate some of the reasons (unfortunately still valid).
> 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
Adobe licence - we can't distribute with "other" PDF writing software
IIRC
> 3 opera 3817 2267 1204 341 5
> 4 lame 7859 2045 5125 686 3
> 5 transcode 5025 1859 2158 1007 1
Lame/transcode - codecs issue?
> 6 realplayer 3077 1679 1140 182 76
> 7 virtualbox 2032 1458 374 198 2
In sid, at least in part IIRC
> 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
NX - Hard to package - someone's been trying for ever :)
> 18 beryl-core 1604 570 964 69 1
> 19 adobereader-enu 762 537 161 62 2
see above for Adobe
> 20 nxclient 1259 500 655 100 4
> 21 pine 944 487 429 28 0
Ignore it - move to alpine
> 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
It's there in testing/unstable
> 28 sun-j2sdk1.5 824 406 357 57 4
Wrong Java licence - packaged before Sun went "free": I think only
Java 7 will be fully free IIRC
> 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.
>
Situation getting better.
> Package related to Multimedia, PDF and 3D stuff seem to be popular
> while missing in Debian. :)
>
Don't always blame Debian - blame upstream licensing and control for
some of it.
Andy
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