To see which popular packages are missing in Debian/main at the moment, I decided to compare the list of popular pckaages in Ubuntu with the list of packages in Debian/main. The result was interesting.
There are at the moment 823762 reports colleected in popcon.ubuntu.com. I decided to use 5000 (~0.6%) installations as the cutoff point defining "popular", as 5000 installations could be seen as quite a significant user base, even if it is a very small fraction of the user base.. This gave me a list of 1543 packages in Ubuntu. There are 31595 debian/main packages listed as used by popcon.debian.org, and comparing these lists give this list of 152 packages only in Ubuntu and not in Debian/main: acroread acroread-escript adobe-flashplugin apparmor apparmor-utils apport apturl avidemux binutils-static bluez bluez-gstreamer busybox-initramfs compiz-wrapper displayconfig-gtk dkms dvdrip emerald example-content firefox-2 firefox-3.0 firefox-3.0-branding firefox-3.0-gnome-support gdebi-kde gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse hwdb-client-common hwdb-client-gnome hwtest hwtest-gtk iceauth inputattach jockey-common jockey-gtk jockey-kde kdebase-workspace-bin kde-window-manager kio-umountwrapper kubuntu-artwork-usplash lame landscape-common language-pack-de language-pack-de-base language-pack-en language-pack-en-base language-pack-es language-pack-es-base language-pack-fr language-pack-fr-base language-selector language-selector-common launchpad-integration libbluetooth3 libcamel1.2-14 libcanberra-gnome libcryptui0 libdca0 libebackend1.2-0 libedataserver1.2-11 libemeraldengine0 libfaac0 libgnome-desktop-2-7 libgp11-0 libgucharmap7 liblaunchpad-integration1 libltdl7 libplasma2 linux-firmware linux-headers-2.6.24-21 linux-headers-2.6.24-21-generic linux-headers-2.6.27-7 linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic linux-image-2.6.22-14-generic linux-image-2.6.22-15-generic linux-image-2.6.24-16-generic linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic linux-image-2.6.24-21-generic linux-image-2.6.27-7-generic linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-19-generic linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-21-generic linux-restricted-modules-common linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-21-generic mencoder mjpegtools nspluginwrapper nvidia-173-modaliases nvidia-177-kernel-source nvidia-177-modaliases nvidia-71-modaliases nvidia-96-modaliases nvidia-common nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-177 nvidia-glx-new nvidia-settings onboard openoffice.org-l10n-common openoffice.org-style-human opera picasa powermanagement-interface pxljr python-apport python-bittorrent python-cupshelpers python-gconf python-gnomecanvas python-launchpad-bugs python-launchpad-integration python-problem-report python-virtkey python-xkit rar restricted-manager restricted-manager-core seahorse-plugins sessreg skype smartdimmer soprano-daemon sun-java5-bin sun-java5-jre sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-gnome system-config-printer-kde sysvutils transcode ufw unrar update-motd upstart upstart-compat-sysv upstart-logd usb-creator usplash-theme-ubuntu virtualbox virtualbox-2.0 vlc-plugin-pulse volumeid w32codecs xdpyinfo xkbutils xmodmap xorg-driver-fglrx xrdb xset xsetroot xvinfo I was a bit surprised that there were so few popular packages missing in Debian/main. A lot of these packages are due to different package structure or other differences between Debian and Ubuntu, while others are already available in contrib or non-free (like sun-java*). A lot of the rest is multimedia related (like avidemux, lame, mencoder, mjpegtools, transcode) which would be very nice to have available in Debian. The onboard package for example seem to be related to accessibility support. Should we try to get any of these packages into Debian/main? This is how I made the list: GET http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_vote.gz | gunzip > ubuntu-by_vote-all GET http://popcon.debian.org/main/by_vote.gz | gunzip > debian-by_vote-main grep -v '#' ubuntu-by_vote-all |awk '$4 > 10000 {print $2}' | \ sort > ubuntu-popular awk '{print $2}' debian-by_vote-main | sort > debian-main comm -23 ubuntu-popular debian-main Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
