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My repository key is available here.

Repository content

This repository contains different categories of software for the i386, amd64 and sparc architectures (the focus being on i386):

Currently, I'm in a transition phase. Some packages are already packaged for Lenny, others are still packaged for Etch. When a package is officially available only from Lenny, I'll try to keep the Etch version around. The packages might also work under testing/unstable, if not, try to build them from source. If this fails, please contact me.

--January 2008

Package overview

The following packages are currently available:

Package details

ardour

digital audio workstation (graphical gtk2 interface)

 Ardour is a multichannel hard disk recorder (HDR) and digital audio
 workstation (DAW).  It can be used to control, record, edit and run and
 complex audio setups.
 .
 Ardour supports pro-audio interfaces
 through the ALSA project, which provides high quality, well designed
 device drivers and API's for audio I/O under Linux. Any interface
 supported by ALSA can be used with Ardour. This includes the
 all-digital 26 channel RME Hammerfall, the Midiman Delta 1010 and many
 others.
 .
 Ardour has support for 24 bit samples
 using floating point internally, non-linear editing with unlimited undo,
 a user-configurable mixer, MTC master/slave capabilities, MIDI hardware
 control surface compatibility.
 .
 It supports MIDI
 Machine Control, and so can be controlled from any MMC controller and
 many modern digital mixers.
 .
 Ardour contains a
 powerful multitrack audio editor/arranger that is completely
 non-destructive and capable of all standard non-linear editing
 operations (insert, replace, delete, move, trim, select,
 cut/copy/paste). The editor has unlimited undo/redo capabilites and can
 save independent "versions" of a track or an entire piece
 .
 Ardour's editor supports the community-developed LADSPA
 plugin standard.  Arbitrary chains of plugins can be attached to any
 portion of a track.  Every mixer strip can have any number of inputs
 and outputs, not just mono, stereo or 5.1.  An N-way panner is
 included, with support for various panning models.  Pre- and post-fader
 sends exist, each with their own gain and pan controls.  Every mixer
 strip acts as its own bus, and thus the bus count in Ardour is
 unlimited.  You can submix any number of strips into another
 strip.
 .
 Ardour's channel capacity is limited only
 by the number on your audio interface and the ability of your disk
 subsystem to stream the data back and forth.
 .
 JACK
 (the JACK Audio Connection Kit) is used for all audio I/O, permitting
 data to be exchanged in perfect samplesync with other applications
 and/or hardware audio interfaces.
 .
 Ardour is
 sample rate and size neutral - any hardware formats from 8 to 32 bits,
 and rates from 8kHz to 192kHz.  Internal processing in 32/64 bit IEEE
 floating point format.
 .
 Further information can be
 found at <http://ardour.org/>.

ardour-altivec

digital audio workstation (graphical gtk2 interface) [altivec]

 Ardour is a multichannel hard disk recorder (HDR) and digital audio
 workstation (DAW).  It can be used to control, record, edit and run
 and complex audio setups. For more information see the description
 of the ardour package or <http://ardour.org/>.
 .
 This package is optimized for altivec and will not run on
 subarchitectures that don't support features enabled in altivec.
 It might fail with weird error SIGILLs and other non-obvious failures.
 Please refrain from filling bugs to the upstream author about this package
 that are not reproducible in the non-optimized package.

ardour-i686

digital audio workstation (graphical gtk2 interface) [i686]

 Ardour is a multichannel hard disk recorder (HDR) and digital audio
 workstation (DAW).  It can be used to control, record, edit and run
 and complex audio setups. For more information see the description
 of the ardour package or <http://ardour.org/>.
 .
 This package is optimized for i686 and will not run on
 subarchitectures that don't support features enabled in i686.
 It might fail with weird error SIGILLs and other non-obvious failures.
 Please refrain from filling bugs to the upstream author about this package
 that are not reproducible in the non-optimized package.

ditz

light-weight distributed issue tracker

 Ditz is a simple, light-weight distributed issue tracker designed to work with
 distributed version control systems like darcs and git. Ditz maintains an issue
 database directory on disk, with files written in a line-based and human-
 editable format. This directory is kept under version control alongside
 project code. Changes in issue state is handled by version control like code
 change: included as part of a commit, merged with changes from other
 developers, conflict-resolved in the standard manner, etc.
 .
 Ditz provides a simple, console-based interface for creating and updating the
 issue database files, and some rudimentary HTML generation capabilities for
 producing world-readable status pages. It offers no central public method of
 bug submission.

ditz-commander

Ditz Commander, GUI Frontend for ditz

 Ditz Commander is a GUI frontend for ditz, a
 distributed issue tracker.

dosage

powerful webcomic downloader / archiver

 Dosage has a modular comic module infrastructure that allows new
 webcomics to be easily supported, but does not limit it to supporting
 webcomics with simple site layouts. Dosage can retrieve just the latest
 strip in a comic, catch-up to the last strip downloaded, or download a
 strip for a particular date/index (except if the webcomic's site layout
 makes this impossible).
 .

enblend

image blending tool

 Enblend is a tool for compositing images. Given a set of images that overlap
 in some irregular way, Enblend overlays them in such a way that the seam
 between the images is invisible, or at least very difficult to see. It can,
 for example, be used to blend a panorama composed of several images.
 .
 It uses a Burt & Adelson multi-resolution spline. This technique tries to
 make the seams between the input images invisible. The basic idea is that
 image features should be blended across a transition zone proportional in
 size to the spatial frequency of the features. For example, objects like
 trees and windowpanes have rapid changes in color. By blending these
 features in a narrow zone, you will not be able to see the seam because the
 eye already expects to see color changes at the edge of these features.
 Clouds and sky are the opposite. These features have to be blended across a
 wide transition zone because any sudden change in color will be immediately
 noticeable.
 .
 Enblend does not align images for you. Use a tool like Hugin or PanoTools to
 do this. The TIFFs produced by these programs are exactly what Enblend is
 designed to work with.

enfuse

image exposure blending tool

 Enfuse blends differently exposed images of the same scene into a nice output
 image, without producing intermediate HDR images that are then tonemapped to a
 viewable image. This simplified process often works much better and quicker
 than the currently known tonemapping algorithms.
 .
 The exposure blending is done using the Mertens-Kautz-Van Reeth exposure
 fusion algorithm. The basic idea is that pixels in the input images are
 weighted according to qualities such as proper exposure, good contrast, and
 high saturation. These weights determine how much a given pixel will
 contribute to the final image.
 .
 Enfuse does not align images for you. Use a tool like Hugin or PanoTools to do
 this. The TIFFs produced by these programs are exactly what Enfuse is designed
 to work with.

festalon

NSF player for OSS (/dev/dsp)

 Festalon is a portable, very accurate, NSF (NES Sound Format) player written
 by the author of FCE Ultra (fceu).  All of the basic sound channels are
 emulated, and support exists for extra sound channels as found in the VRC6,
 VRC7, MMC5, FME-7, Namco 106, and FDS(partial).
 .
 This package contains the Unix OSS (/dev/dsp) festalon player.
 There is also an XMMS plugin available in the xmms-festalon package.
 .
 See the Festalon homepage at: http://festalon.sourceforge.net/

fluxbox-styles-mitch

Additional styles for the fluxbox window manager

 This package contains some additional styles for the fluxbox window
 manager.  They are mostly variants of the default fluxbox styles.
 The primary goal of this package is to make it easier for me to
 install them on all of my machines.
 .
 These styles are included:
  - AnimeNoTomodachi
  - GreenCRT
  - MitchleyKay
  - MitchleyKayFlat
  - VNC8bit

gbsplay

A Gameboy sound player

 This program emulates the sound hardware of the Nintendo Gameboy.  It
 is able to play the sounds from a Gameboy module dump (GBS format).
 Also included is the gbsinfo tool which displays information about a
 GBS file.

grabcd-encode

rip and encode audio CDs - encoder

 grabcd lets you rip and encode audio CDs.  Ripping and encoding can
 be done on different systems.
 .
 This package contains the encoder script that generates OGG files and
 stores them in a given directory hierarchy.  It receives the raw data
 from a machine where the grabcd-rip package is installed.

grabcd-rip

rip and encode audio CDs - ripper

 grabcd lets you rip and encode audio CDs.  Ripping and encoding can
 be done on different systems.
 .
 This package contains the ripper script that reads an audio CD.  It
 sends the data to a machine where the grabcd-encode package is
 installed.

hugin

GUI tools for Hugin

 Hugin is a panorama photo stitching program. Essentially, Hugin is a
 GUI frontend for Panorama Tools. Stitching is accomplished by using
 several overlapping photos taken from the same location, and using
 control points to align and transform the photos so that they can be
 blended together to form a larger image. Hugin allows for the easy
 creation of control points between two images, optimization of the
 image transforms, and much more.
 .
 This package includes the following graphical interfaces, using the
 command-line tools provided in the hugin-tools package:
  * hugin                - Hugin panorama creator
  * hugin_stitch_project - Hugin batch stitcher
  * nona_gui             - Graphical interface for nona.

hugin-data

data files for Hugin

 Hugin is a panorama photo stitching program.
 .
 This package includes the data files needed by the hugin and
 hugin-tools packages.

hugin-tools

CLI tools for Hugin

 Hugin is a panorama photo stitching program.
 .
 This package includes command-line tools used by hugin and other
 packages for image stitching and High Dynamic Range (HDR) images:
  * align_image_stack - Align overlapping images for HDR creation.
  * autooptimiser     - Optimize image positions.
  * fulla             - Correct lens distortion, vignetting, and
                        chromatic aberration.
  * hugin_hdrmerge    - Merge overlapping images.
  * nona              - Stitch a panorama image.
  * vig_optimize      - Determine the radial vignetting.
  * PTBatcher         - Panotools batch stitcher.
  * PTBatcherGUI      - GUI for panotools batch stitcher.

irssi-scripts-mitch

collection of script for irssi written by mitch

 This is a collection of useful scripts for the irssi IRC-client.
 Thus, installing this package only makes sense if you intend to use
 irssi.
 .
 Some individual scripts need other packages in order to work
 properly. Please see the list of Suggests as well as the information
 in the header of the scripts for additional information.

japana

HTTP proxy converting Japanese characters into ASCII

 japana is a small and simple proxy written in Perl.  The proxy
 converts Japanese characters (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji etc.) into
 ASCII (Romaji) on the fly.  The conversion is done using the KAKASI
 library.

jprojecttimer

Project scheduling tool using Gantt charts

 JProjectTimer (JPT) is a project scheduler application designed for
 project managers to enable them to define tasks and their
 relationships, then represent graphically the schedule on a Gantt
 chart.

kenny

convert files from and to KennySpeak

 kenny.pl is a translator for KennySpeak.  KennySpeak goes like this:
 "Ppfmfp ppmffm mfmppfmpm, fmpmfpmppffm'fpmmpp pmpmffpmfpmfmppmpm
 Pmpmppppppppffm!".  KennySpeak has been invented by Kohan Ikin.

libdbmdeep-perl

A pure perl multi-level hash/array DBM

 A unique flat-file database module, written in pure perl.  True
 multi-level hash/array support (unlike MLDBM, which is faked), hybrid
 OO / tie() interface, cross-platform FTPable files, and quite fast.
 Can handle millions of keys and unlimited hash levels without
 significant slow-down.  Written from the ground-up in pure perl --
 this is NOT a wrapper around a C-based DBM.  Out-of-the-box
 compatibility with Unix, Mac OS X and Windows.

libgrabcd-readconfig-perl

rip and encode audio CDs - common files

 grabcd lets you rip and encode audio CDs.  Ripping and encoding can
 be done on different systems.
 .
 This package contains files needed by the other grabcd packages.

libpano13-0

panorama tools library

 This package contains the panoramatools library. It provides basic
 algorithmical tools to generate, edit and transform many kinds of
 panoramic images.
 .
 Panorama Tools was originally created by Professor Helmut Dersch of the
 University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen. Professor Dersch's site no
 longer has links to download the tools, which is why this panotools
 sourceforge project exists.

libpano13-bin

panorama tools utilities

 This package contains the following tools, all part of the Panorama Tools
 library, and supposed to make it easy to work with panoramic images:
  * panoinfo    - List details about the libpano13 library
  * PTblender   - Colour and brightness correction of panoramas
  * PTcrop      - Crop TIFF images
  * PTinfo      - Display information about a panotools-generated image
  * PTmasker    - Compute stitching masks
  * PTmender    - Replacement for PTStitcher
  * PToptimizer - Wrapper around control point optimization routines
  * PTroller    - Merge several images into a single one
  * PTtiff2psd  - Convert a set of TIFF files into a Photoshop PSD file
  * PTtiffdump  - Compare two TIFF images
  * PTuncrop    - Uncrop TIFF images

libpano13-dev

panorama tools library development files

 This package contains the panoramatools library. It provides basic
 algorithmical tools to generate, edit and transform many kinds of
 panoramic images.
 .
 This package holds static libraries and headers needed by developers
 who wish to use libpano13 in their programs.

libtrollop-ruby

commandline option parser for Ruby

 Trollop is a commandline option parser for Ruby that just gets out of your
 way. One line of code per option is all you need to write. For that, you get
 a nice automatically-generated help page, robust option parsing, command
 subcompletion, and sensible defaults for everything you don't specify.

magnetic

An interpreter for Magnetic Scrolls text adventures.

 Magnetic is an interpreter for the games written between 1985 and
 1991 by Magnetic Scrolls, a text adventure producer based in London,
 England.

makesig

very flexible random signature generator

 makesig.pl is a very flexible random signature generator.
 .
 It comes together with tools to format your signature, and is capable
 of including output from other programs into your signature (e.g. uptime).
 .
 makesig.pl can also read fortune files.

mplayer-dep-dev

Dependencies for libraries needed to build mplayer

 This package exists to get yourself started when you want to compile
 mplayer from source.  This only installs the libraries needed for
 these options:
 .
  - sound drivers: NAS, JACK, ALSA
  - video drivers: DirectFb, GGI, SDL, AAlib, CACA
  - video formats: Matroska, OggTheora
  - audio formats: MPEG I Layer 1-3, Ogg Vorbis, CDDA
  - others: SAMBA, FreeType
 .
 When there are other useful libraries installed and mplayer detects
 them during ./configure, they will be used as well.
 .
 Beware: not all libraries are provided by Etch, at least
 backports.org is needed.

ncurses-term-mitch

Terminal definition for WYSE 160 serial terminal

 This package contains a wide+long (132x43) terminfo definition for
 the WYSE 160 serial terminal.
 .
 See http://www.cgarbs.de/wyseinst.en.html for further details.

nekoplunk

Experimental Karplus-Strong DSSI plugin

 This is a hack on the nekostring plugin and provides "plucked" string
 synthesizer sounds.
 .
 DSSI is an API for audio processing plugins, particularly useful for
 software synthesis plugins with user interfaces (see http://dssi.sf.net/).

nekorgan

organ-like DSSI plugin

 This is an organ-like DSSI plugin.
 .
 DSSI is an API for audio processing plugins, particularly useful for
 software synthesis plugins with user interfaces (see http://dssi.sf.net/).

nekostring

polyphonic string ensemble DSSI plugin

 A synthesizer imitating the polyphonic string ensembles of the 1970s
 .
 DSSI is an API for audio processing plugins, particularly useful for
 software synthesis plugins with user interfaces (see http://dssi.sf.net/).

p0rn-comfort

Support programs for browsing image-gallery sites

 p0rn-comfort consists of several support programs for browsing
 image-gallery sites.  It includes a proxy which enables blacklisting
 of thumbnail sites on-the-fly.  It also supports queueing of entire
 pages for download and fetching them at a later time.  Queuing can
 either be done manually (directly from your browser) or by an
 automated download script which can also follow links between
 different galleries.

photogallery

simple static photogallery script

 photogallery creates simple static image galleries to be deployed
 locally or on a webserver.  It contains additional tools to maintain
 a list of changes in the galleries.

qtpfsgui

graphical user interface providing a workflow for HDR imaging

 Features:
  * Create an HDR file from a set of images (formats: JPEG, TIFF 8bit and
    16bit, RAW) of the same scene taken at different exposure setting.
  * Save and load HDR images.
  * Rotate and resize HDR images.
  * Tonemap HDR images.
  * Copy exif data between sets of images.
 .
 Supported HDR formats:
  * OpenEXR (extension: exr).
  * Radiance RGBE (extension: hdr).
  * Tiff formats: 16bit, 32bit (float) and LogLuv (extension: tiff).
  * Raw image formats (extension: various).
  * PFS native format (extension: pfs).
 .
 Supported LDR formats: JPEG, PNG, PPM, PBM, TIFF (8 bit).

reniced

renice running processes based on regular expressions

 reniced takes a list of regular expressions, looks for processes and
 threads matching them and renices the processes to given values.  It
 can also change IO priorities.
 .
 Instead of editing the scripts in /etc/init.d to give daemons the
 nicelevel you want (and get prompted at every package update because
 these files are conffiles) you can just run reniced once a day.

simplebackup

Simple backup tool

 The included script performs a nice and easy file based backup.  It
 can easily be extended to include database dumps or save the output
 from `fdisk -L` and other things as well.

soundconvert

convert compressed sound formats

 soundconvert can recode sound formats like OGG, FLAC and MP3 to
 128kbps-MP3s to be easier to handle on small mobile players.  Other
 output formats can be selected, too.
 .
 soundconvert tries to keep all TAGs intact.  It understands ID3v1,
 OGG, FLAC and GBS tags.
 .
 This is one big ugly dirty hack.  Be careful when using this script!

tentakelcoder

convert files from and to tentacle code

 The Tentacle-Coder has been written for the "Ferkeltaschen" from
 news:de.alt.anime so they can exchange files in a suitable
 format. You can encode binary data into plain ASCII format, but the
 files get very large. Because a randomizer is used, the encoded file
 will always be different, but the decoding works nevertheless.

v2strip

Removes ID3v2 tags from MP3 files

 v2strip is a little utility that removes ID3v2 tags from MP3 files to
 provide backward compatibility for applications not yet supporting
 these tags.

wallpaper

Find images which can be used as wallpapers

 This script tests if an image is usable as a desktop wallpaper.  A
 list of image types and a minimum and a maximum width and aspect
 ratio can be specified.  If a file passes all the tests, it is
 returned to stdout.

whatsnewfm

A utility to filter the daily newsletter from freshmeat.net

 whatsnewfm is a utility to filter the daily newsletter from freshmeat.net
 .
 The main purpose is to cut the huge newsletter to a smaller size by
 only showing items that you didn't see before.
 .
 The items already seen will be stored in a database. After some time, the items
 expire and will be shown again the next time they are included in a newsletter.
 .
 If you find an item that you consider particularly useful, you can add it to a
 "hot" list. Items in the hot list are checked for updates so that you don't
 miss anything about your favourite programs.

xmms

Versatile X audio player

 X MultiMedia System is a player for various audio formats, with a customizable
 interface based on X/GTK+.
 .
 It's able to read and play:
  * Audio MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (with mpg123 plug-in),
  * Ogg Vorbis files (with the Ogg Vorbis plug-in),
  * CD Audio (with CDAudio plug-in), with CDDB support,
  * WAV, RAW, AU (with internal wav plug-in and MikMod plug-in),
  * MOD, XM, S3M, and other module formats (with MikMod plug-in),
  * .cin files, id Software.
 It has eSound, OSS, and disk writer support for outputting sound.
 .
 It looks almost the same as famous Winamp, and includes those neat features
 like general purpose, visualization and effect plug-ins, several of which come
 bundled, then spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope, skins support, and of course, a
 playlist window.

xmms-dev

XMMS development static library and header files

 X MultiMedia System is a player for various audio formats, with a customizable
 interface based on X/GTK+.
 .
 This package contains xmms static library and header files which are usually
 only necessary if you wish to build additional XMMS plug-ins.

xmms-festalon

XMMS Input plugin for playing NSF music files

 Festalon is a portable, very accurate, NSF (NES Sound Format) player written
 by the author of FCE Ultra (fceu).  All of the basic sound channels are
 emulated, and support exists for extra sound channels as found in the VRC6,
 VRC7, MMC5, FME-7, Namco 106, and FDS(partial).
 .
 This package contain the XMMS Input plugin.
 There is also a Unix OSS (/dev/dsp) festalon player available in the
 festalon package.
 .
 See the Festalon homepage at: http://festalon.sourceforge.net/

xmms-nas

Network Audio System (NAS) Output Plugin for XMMS

 This is a simple plugin to allow XMMS to direct its output to a Network
 Audio System (NAS) server on the local host or across a network. It
 redirects the sound output to the relevant host, and allows you to
 adjust the volume of that host too. Due to limitations in the NAS
 protocol, balance adjustment is not supported.

xmms-sid

input plugin for XMMS that plays SID (C64) tunes

 This plugin allows you to play SID tunes within xmms. C64 tunes are
 usually available in the SID format.
 .
 There is a great collection available with almost every single SID tune
 ever produced. It's called "High Voltage SID Collection" (HVSC) and can be
 found on various sites around the net like on <http://hvsc.c64.org/>.


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