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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
