Martin Schulze wrote: > I wonder if it would make sense to add a page on the webserver > listing people and packages where Debian maintainers have become > upstream maintainers or were upstream by nature. This would at > least show that we're not only working on our distribution. > > I don't know how many packages are affected but I'd guess they're > about two dozen at least.
Excellent idea. Here is a preliminary list, I just looked for .tar.gz files in unstable that were not .orig.tar.gz files. I made 3 lists, actually. But I know the first list is incomplete, because some things like cfingerd and sysklogd didn't show up by this method and I had to add them by hand. Packages with debian developers as thier upstream maintainers, that may be in use by people outside debian. I have marked packages I'm sure are in use elsewhere with a star. * alien * cfingerd * sysklogd * sysvinit userv syslog-summary fdflush * grub * hurd * ld.so * modconf * wvdial bock curves m68k-vme-tftplilo uutraf members vmelilo libpam-mkhomedir libpam-motd locale-ja locale-ko pppconfig hostname mkrboot * electric-fence liwc nasm-mode pointerize diploma * sysadmin-guide verse * sex vivid ncurses-hexedit * savant /* debian developer is one of a number of coauthors */ * tyvis /* debian developer is one of a number of coauthors */ * an filters empire-hub empire-lafe * gnomehack xchain ean13 ppmtofb liblockfile lockdev publib svgalib-dummy mailcheck mime-construct signify smtp-refuser spamdb spamfilter lbdb libplot-perl r-pdl seesat5 spline wzip rpncalc diskless lockfile-progs kernellab dnscvsutil ftp-upload ftpwatch ipip netselect nsmon * perlmoo rlinetd statnews * pdmenu 2utf deroff langdrill lincredits * witalian authbind blinkd setcd falselogin fakeroot libtricks * ltrace nvram tagtypes * ticker bookmarks gnats2w urlredir skattek horde-core big-cursor buici-clock fvwmconf oneliner * xfstt xtranslate xtrlock * wmbattery Packages authored by debian developers, but not used outside debian because they're debian-specific: menu apt boot-floppies console-apt cruft debsums dftp dunc equivs gnome-apt dconfig file-rc suidmanager vrms adduser base-files base-passwd debianutils dpkg-ftp dpkg-hurd dpkg-mountable dpkg-multicd dpkg perl-base dbuild cvs-buildpackage lintian debian-test debmake dh-make dpkg-scriptlib dpkg-awk devscripts dupload debhelper kernel-patch-2.2.10-i386 kernel-patch-2.2.10-powerpc kernel-patch-2.2.9-powerpc pentium-builder quinn-diff yada pkglist debiandoc-sgml-doc doc-base developers-reference dhelp doc-debian-es doc-debian-fr doc-debian debian-policy dpkg-doc-ja dwww installmanual-de maint-guide maint-guide-es debian-guide debview emacsen-common geda int-fiction perl /* dummy package, not all of perl! */ debbugs java-common java-compiler-dummy java-virtual-machine-dummy miscutils /* dummy package */ pkg-order popularity-contest kernel-package user-de user-es user-ja mime-support ipmasq debiandoc-sgml dtm sgml-base task-sgml bug debget grep-dctrl ruari-diff dpkg-cross reportbug theme-converters xaw-wrappers Packages that for some other reason have no .orig.tar.gz. These may be forks, or mistakes, or may be this way for some reason I can't tell: apmd defrag ja-trans loadlin opie pam-apps pwgen sxid tmpreaper /* fork */ systune atari-bootstrap casio efax tkhylafax cmucl cvsweb gide haskell-mode kernel-patch-2.0.35-alpha kernel-patch-2.0.35-sparc kernel-patch-2.0.36-m68k kernel-patch-2.2.0-sparc kernel-patch-2.2.1-netwinder kernel-patch-2.2.1-sparc kernel-patch-2.2.5-netwinder kernel-patch-2.2.9-netwinder kernel-patch-2.2.9-pc9800 nana libape series sorcerer kernel-patch-2.2.10-netwinder kernel-patch-2.2.10-pc980 pccts kernel-patch-2.2.10-raid lib-xt-java angband-doc cil clips-doc doc-linux-de doc-linux-pl doc-linux-hr doc-linux-ja doc-linux-ko doc-linux-sv doc-linux-zh heise-register icl-faq ivtools-doc ldp-ligs ldp-lkmpg ldp-sag-it pj-* /* 22 packages */ vdk-doc doc-linux-html manpages-pl beav crypt++el august vim ava avra heyu xpilot-extra povray-manual saoimage tkpaint xsane clue gnome-guile ipchains-perl libapache-session-perl libprpc-perl hermes1 slatec asmail coolmail xfaces dstooltk geomview grafix gsl genius plotmtv r-cran xtide barracude bioperl display-dhammapada file-kanji svsvbanner bridgex gnudip lambdacore wanpipe mtr httptunnel radiusd-cistron redir rrdhcpcd snmptraplogd tcputils yagirc newsflash termcap-compat cdrtoaster wmrack tclmidi timidity-patches rexima c2ps diction iczech idanish sgml-data swedish translate tkdiff autofs bsdmainutils limo floppybackup quickppp sysutils tkps cgi-scripts htget imp libapache-mod-dtcl gsfonts wmaker-data wmcpu wterm xfntmizi-ko xipmsg xmem I'm going to investigate this last list more closely, and probably file a bunch of maint-only bug reports. -- see shy jo
