This page is almost permanently out of date, so it may be to best to
consider the nice per-maintainer summary done by Debian QA
instead.
Debian packages I maintain
I have been using Linux since the
spring of 1994, switched to the Debian
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 calculator
Also provides the
dc
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 the beancounter 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 numerical
analysis.
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 are octave2.0 as well as octave2.1 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 are quantlib-python
and quantlib-ruby
packages as well as the quantlib-refman reference manual
- r-base
- The 'GNU
S' system for statistical computation and graphics as well as the r-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 the smtm 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 visualization
There is a also the xgobi 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 of
octave-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 the
Debian Bug Tracking System report, and there is also a
Lintian report
Last modified: Thu May 28 20:56:02 CDT 2020