Bug#970393: RFP: shfmt -- Shell script formatter

I would like to endorse this RFP; I was about to file one for it myself. shfmt can be used as a more powerful alternative to `sh -n`, able to detect use of bashisms in scripts that are supposed to be POSIX-only. And it has an option to dump out its parse tree as JSON, which could make life easier

Bug#819735: RFP: r-cran-h5 -- S4-based interface to the HDF5 library for binary data storage

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Debian has a package 'r-cran-hdf5' which provides a basic interface to libhdf5, but it appears to have been abandoned upstream, and is no longer available on CRAN. This would make a suitable replacement. The long description below has been copied verbatim from th

Bug#739010: RFP: twython -- Twitter client library for Python

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: twython Version : 3.1.2 Upstream Author : Ryan McGrath * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twython/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Twitter client library for Python Twython is a P

Bug#570018:

Just a note that the existing biblatex package Recommends "biber >= 0.9.6" (but, alas, there is no such package) -- if you mean to upload biber under the binary package name "biblatex-biber", you should coordinate with the biblatex maintainer to get the recommendation changed. I would like to offe

Bug#457731: RFP: biblatex -- Bibliographies in LaTeX using BibTeX for sorting only.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I'd like a Debian package of biblatex. It is still somewhat experimental, but the author does consider it ready for widespread testing; so it should have its own package rather than being included in texlive-bibtex-extra or such. The long description below is a v