How to help with packaging
The A/DeMuDi project needs help to create new Debian packages and maintain the existing ones. If you want to contribute to this effort, but you are new to the Debian packaging systems, here follows some information to get you started.
Documentation
Lists of packages and applications
Key to status column
- O - The package has been ‘Orphaned’. It needs a new maintainer as soon as possible. If the package has a Priority higher or equal to standard, the severity should be set to important.
- RFA - This is a ‘Request for Adoption’. Due to lack of time, resources, interest or something similar, the current maintainer is asking for someone else to maintain this package. They will maintain it in the meantime, but perhaps not in the best possible way. In short: the package needs a new maintainer.
- RFH - This is a ‘Request For Help’. The current maintainer wants to continue to maintain this package, but they need some help to do this, because their time is limited or the package is quite big and needs several maintainers.
- ITP - This is an ‘Intent To Package’. Please submit a package description along with copyright and URL in such a report.
- RFP - This is a ‘Request For Package’. Someone has found an interesting piece of software and would like someone else to maintain it for Debian. Please submit a package description along with copyright and URL in such a report.
- not in WNPP - That's because you haven't submitted an RFP for it yet (see above).
You can click on the links in this column to bring up the full bug reports.
Audio and multimedia applications which need help
| Package | Status | Upstream | Comment |
| alsa-firmware | RFP: | Wishlist | part of ALSA and needed for several cards |
| asc-music | ITA: | music pack for ASC | |
| banshee (sonance) | ITP | http://sonance.aaronbock.net/ in unstable | GNOME audio player based on GStreamer and Mono |
| cantus | O | http://cvs.gna.org/cvsweb/?cvsroot=cantus removed | Gnome tool to mass-rename/tag mp3 and ogg files - Has a couple of minor bugs that probably wouldn't be hard to fix. Orphaned 2004-12-31. |
| chuck | ITP: | concurrent on-the-fly audio programming language | |
| didgeridoo | not in WNPP | http://www.linux-sound.org/rtsynth/ not sure about license | voice controlled resonance instrument for the jack-audio-connection-kit |
| dirac | not in WNPP | http://dirac.sf.net/ Mozilla Public License Version 1.1 can be relicensed under GPL | video codec that provides general-purpose video compression and decompression tools comparable with state-of-the-art systems |
| dssi | ITP: | http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d00-llu/music_dssi.php | See all the other dssi0.9 ITPs. |
| dssi0.9-plugin-fluidsynth | ITP: | DSSI wrapper for the FluidSynth SoundFont-playing software synthesizer. | |
| dssi0.9-plugin-hexter | ITP: | Yamaha DX7 modeling DSSI plugin. | |
| dssi0.9-plugin-ll-scope | ITP: | An oscilloscope DSSI plugin. | |
| dssi0.9-plugin-sineshaper | ITP: | Monophonic synth plugin with two oscillators and waveshapers. | |
| dssi0.9-plugin-vst | ITP: | Wrapper plugin for Windows VSTs to function as DSSI plugin. | |
| dssi0.9-plugin-xsynth | ITP: | classic-analog (VCOs-VCF-VCA) style software synthesizer. | |
| em8300 | RFA: | Drivers for DXR3/Hollywood+ decoder cards - Debian maintainer has become upstream too & needs help. | |
| freecycle | ITP: | a beat slicer | |
| freewheeling | ITP | http://freewheeling.sf.net/ in testing | live looping musical instrument |
| freqtweak | O: | debian-qa | Realtime audio frequency spectral manipulation |
| gcombust | O: | debian-qa - new version in unstable | GTK+ based CD mastering and burning program |
| gmorgan | ITP: | MIDI rhythm station emulator software | |
| gplflash | not in WNPP | http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/ development moving to gnash | a fully Flash 7-compliant replacement for the restrictively licensed Macromedia Flash Player and browser plugin |
| icecast-client | O: | removed | Streaming Mpeg Layer III feeder - deprecated & to be removed. |
| id3ren | RFA: | id3 tagger and renamer | |
| kino | RFA | http://kino.schirmacher.de/ | Non-linear editor for Digital Video data |
| ktoon | ITP: | http://ktoon.toonka.com/ | 2d animation toolkit - being held up by libming licensing issues, help? |
| latencytest | not in WNPP | http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/alsa.html#LatencyTest | Tool to measure kernel latency |
| lingot | ITP: | in testing | accurate and easy to use musical instrument tuner |
| lives | ITP | http://www.xs4all.nl/~salsaman/lives/ | LiVES is the Linux Video Editing System |
| mctools-lite | O: | A CD player and audio mixer for X | |
| midicomp | not in WNPP | http://midicomp.opensrc.org/ | utility to "compile" and "decompile" midi files from/to text files |
| nas | RFH: | The Network Audio System | |
| ogle | ITA: | DVD player with support for DVD menus | |
| om | not in WNPP | http://www.nongnu.org/om-synth/ | modular synthesizer for GNU/Linux audio systems using the Jack audio server and LADSPA or DSSI plugins |
| pmidi | O: | A command line midi player for ALSA | |
| pvoc | RFP | http://quitte.de/dsp/pvoc.html | LADSPA plugins and command line utilities for time stretching/pitch shifting |
| qsampler | ITP: | http://qsampler.sourceforge.net/qsampler-index.html#Downloads | A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface |
| rawrec | O: | removed | Buffered raw audio recorder/player - looks dead. |
| rivendell | not in WNPP | http://www.salemradiolabs.com/rivendell/ | complete radio broadcast automation solution |
| rosegarden | ITA: | now maintained by debian-multimedia | music editor and MIDI/audio sequencer |
| rtirq | ITP: | Startup script for realtime-preempt enabled kernels | |
| rtsynth | not in WNPP | http://www.linux-sound.org/rtsynth/ | a midi event triggered real time synth for Linux |
| sfront | O: | MPEG 4 Structured Audio decoder | |
| slimp3 | ITA: | MPEG Layer III Streaming Server | |
| soundgrab | O: | removed | play a raw audio file and interactively select and save pieces - looks dead. |
| sound-recorder | O: | Direct-to-disk recording and play-back programs. - looks dead. | |
| tapiir | O: | A tool for real time audio delay and feedback effects | |
| volume.app | ITA:merged with 304826 | A dockapp enabling easy control of the volume level - looks like it's been adopted. | |
| vstream | O: | bttv video capture utility aimed at making MPEGs - no longer developed upstream. | |
| wasp | not in WNPP | http://artemiolabs.com/software/wasp/ | LADSPA plugins |
| wavbreaker | ITP: | http://huli.org/wavbreaker | Takes a wave file and break it up into multiple wave files |
| xfonts-artwiz | O: | Artwiz X11 fonts - no longer work with Xorg | |
| yatm | not in WNPP | http://delysid.org/yatm.html | Ogg and mp3 player with time stretching capabilities |
| zinf | RFA: | Extensible, cross-platform audio player - Upstream may be dead? |
