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What new software would you like to see ported to Debian?

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What new software would you like to see ported to Debian?

#1 Post by kedaha »

What new software packages would you like to see ported to Debian's main repository?
For example, I think it'd be cool (pun intended :wink: ) to port GNU_IceCat.
On the server side, Joomla would be a nice addition.
Must be compatible with Debian DFSG though.
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#2 Post by stevepusser »

Quite a few users really liked Foliate after it was added to the MX Linux repositories, and I believe it's DFSG-compliant (unlike hollywood, which is still in the Debian repos). Edit: oh, it's been fixed--but now you have to provide your own music.

And my OBS repo for Foliate: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show ... te/foliate

It's actually an architecture-independent build, though, so you could install the amd64 build on a Pi, for example.
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Re: What new software would you like to see ported to Debian

#3 Post by sunrat »

DeadBeef music player and PulseEffects, both of which Stevo has ported to MX.

Another audio effect plugin package I particularly like is Pulseaudio Parametric Equalizer which already installs cleanly in Buster, Sid, and MX from the developer's own Debian repo.
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#4 Post by stevepusser »

PulseEffects is already in upstream Debian, so it was a simple backport for MX. Perhaps it could be requested on the Debian backports mailing list.
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#5 Post by sunrat »

stevepusser wrote:PulseEffects is already in upstream Debian, so it was a simple backport for MX. Perhaps it could be requested on the Debian backports mailing list.
The PulseEffects in Unstable doesn't include the dependency for lsp-plugins-lv2 so the equalizer won't work. lsp-plugins-lv2 is not available in Unstable. Guess I should submit another bug report. I run siduction rather than pure Sid though so presumably I submit the bug to siduction and they send it upstream. :?

Edit:- There's already a bug report. I posted and pointed them to your packages in MX Testing repo @Steve.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=940732
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#6 Post by stevepusser »

I kind of remember that Deadbeef has been suggested before for the repos, but has some issues that have to be resolved first to fully meet Debian policy.
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#7 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

It's not new but I'd like a working version of Mitsuba for Debian buster.

There's an Ubuntu .deb and I've built a version for stretch but it doesn't work in buster so I have to run it from a chroot, which sucks.
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#8 Post by stevepusser »

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:It's not new but I'd like a working version of Mitsuba for Debian buster.

There's an Ubuntu .deb and I've built a version for stretch but it doesn't work in buster so I have to run it from a chroot, which sucks.
It looks like Arch AUR both applies a patch for python 3.5, but then also changes some of the code before the build with sed commands: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ ... itsuba-git

If the build failure is due to gcc-8, you could try building it with gcc-7, which is still in Buster. You would need to add gcc-7 and g++-7 to the build-depends, and then add this to the rules file:

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#9 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

stevepusser wrote:If the build failure is due to gcc-8, you could try building it with gcc-7, which is still in Buster.
Ah, nice idea, thanks. Unfortunately it still fails to build:

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Re: What new software would you like to see ported to Debian

#10 Post by Mr. Lumbergh »

I'd be happy just with a usable 64-bit implementation of WINE.
Oh, and mainline Firefox. ESR is a dog. I know it can be installed by other means, but I'd like to be able to just run apt.

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#11 Post by Wheelerof4te »

^Debian Unstable has normal Firefox.

I would like to see sway Wayland compositor moving from experimental to Unstable.

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#12 Post by edbarx »

I would like to see OpenHantek oscilloscope frontend ported to Debian. Trying Ubuntu's packages installed successfully but failed to detect the device. Inspecting output from strace after running the frontend indicated there are incompatibilities between Debian's /sys file hierarchy and Ubuntu's but I may be wrong. The output from strace was huge with several ten thousand lines of text.
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#13 Post by stevepusser »

I could try rebuilding them on the OBS for Debian if you can point me to debianized source files, such as in a PPA.
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#14 Post by Mr. Lumbergh »

Wheelerof4te wrote:^Debian Unstable has normal Firefox.

I would like to see sway Wayland compositor moving from experimental to Unstable.
I started off on Unstable and quickly moved back to Stable. Unstable broke too many things that I need for audio.

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#15 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:I'd like a working version of Mitsuba for Debian buster
Finally got the build working in buster: https://software.opensuse.org//download ... ge=Mitsuba
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#16 Post by stevepusser »

I see someone is working on getting Foliate fixed up Debian. They're a lot better than I am in getting rid of all the problems that lintian turns up, such as copyright notices and having javascript stuff rebuilt from source rather than using the files that Foliate provides.

I did package Arqiver from scratch for MX today--it's a Qt-based archive manager from the Featherpad and Kvantum developer. It would go great with a lightweight Qt desktop like LXQT or Lumina. It works a lot like Ark on KDE.
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