This page is almost permanently out of date, so it may be to best to consider the nice per-maintainer summary done byDebian QA instead.Debian packages I maintain
I have been usingLinux since the spring of 1994, switched to theDebian GNU/Linux distribution around 12 months later. Around July 1995, I started to actively contribute to Debian. I currently maintain the following packages:
- acct
- GNU process and user accounting utilities
- afio
- Tar or cpio replacement for archiving files
- auto-pgp
- PGP tools for command-line use and Emacs
- bc
- GNU bc arbitrary precision calculatorAlso provides thedc package.
- beancounter
- Perl stock portfolio performance toolkit providing functions to download, store (in an SQL database) and analyse stock market data.
As I am the author, you could also visit thebeancounter page. - dbd-excel
- Perl5 module for Excel file access with SQL via DBI
- dbd-odbc
- Perl5 module for ODBC database access via DBI
- finance-streamer
- Perl5 module for access to Datek Streamer real-time quotes
- finance-yahooquote
- Perl5 module for retrieving stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance
- gretl
- GNU Regression, Econometric and Time-Series Library Program
- gsl
- GNU Scientific Library, a collection of routines for numericalanalysis.Also note the GNU GSL Reference Docs (in postscript) package and the GNU GSL Reference Docs (in html) package.
- inline-octave
- Perl5 module to write Octave code inside of Perl programs
- math-numbercruncher
- Perl5 module of useful math/stats functions
- matwrap
- A wrapper generator for the Octave, Matlab and Tela languages
- octave
- GNU Octave language for numerical computations. Note that there areoctave2.0 as well asoctave2.1 packages, and assorted packages derived from these two sources.
- octave-ci
- Contributed functions for the Octave language
- octave-epstk
- Octave encapsulated postscript toolkit
- octave-forge
- Large number of extension and package for GNU Octave
- octave-sp
- Semidefinite Programming functions for Octave
- ole-storage-lite
- Perl5 module to read and write OLE structured files
- quantlib
- QuantLib library for financial engineering. Note that there arequantlib-python andquantlib-ruby packages as well as thequantlib-refman reference manual
- r-base
- The 'GNU S' system for statistical computation and graphics as well as ther-recommended package with core modules.
- smtm
- Show me the money: a global stock ticker and portfolio tracker.
As I am the author, you could visit thesmtm page. - spreadsheet-parseexcel
- Perl5 modules to access Excel spreadsheets
- spreadsheet-writeexcel
- Perl5 modules to write Excel spreadsheets
- statistics-descriptive
- Perl5 module of basic descriptive statistical functions
- time
- GNU time program for measuring use of resources by programs
- tob
- Small yet powerful backup script for archiving filesystems
- wajig
- Simplified Debian package management front end
- xgobi
- Interactive dynamic graphics program for data visualizationThere is a also thexgobi documentation package
Debian packages I used to maintain
- a2ps
- GNU 'anything to postscript' converter and pretty-printer
- apmd
- Advanced power management tools for laptops
- archie
- Classic search clients for files on ftp hosts
- doc-linux-text
- Collection of Linux HOWTO documents, updated monthly (ascii version)
- doc-linux-html
- Collection of Linux HOWTO documents, updated monthly (html version)
- efax
- Powerful small program to send, receive, view and print faxes
- gstalker
- Stock and commodity price charting utility
- mirror
- Perl program to mirror file archives across the Net
- latex2e-doc
- Documentation on LaTeX2e commands in GNU info format(now in tetex)
- libdate-manip-perl
- Perl5 modules for common date and time manipulation
- libio-stringy-perl
- Perl5 modules for IO from scalars and arrays
- math-bigint
- Perl5 module for mathematical operations on arbitrarily large integers and floats
- libmime-perl
- Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant messages (MIME-tools)
- mime-lite
- Perl5 module for convenient generation of MIME messages
- octave-matcompat
- Matlab-compatibility functions for the Octave language (now part ofoctave-forge)
- slsc
- Port of the sc spreadsheet which uses the SLang library,
- soap-lite
- Perl5 modules for client and server side SOAP implementation
- tcp4u3
- The tcp4u portable networking API
- x3270
- X11 program for connections to IBM 3270 mainframes,
- xlockmore
- X11 program (with lots of modes) to lock the console
- xpdf
- X11 program to view Portable Document Format (or Acrobat) files
Status
The status of my packages is reported in theDebian Bug Tracking System report, and there is also a Lintian report
Last modified: Thu May 28 20:56:02 CDT 2020