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= RPM Requests = = Package Requests =
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Use this page to post a request for a package that you would like to see in the RPM Fusion repository. If a package can be included in Fedora, please submit the request to the [[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList|Fedora Wishlist]] or to the [[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games#head-90aaf9bf465a8c09c75f2933edceb123d67066ba|Fedora Games SIG Wishlist]]. Use this page to post a request for a packages that can't go to Fedora but would be nice to have in the RPM Fusion repository.
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There is no guarantee that the package will be built, but it serves as a basis for maintainers looking for ideas on what to package next. Alternatively, please consider joining RPM Fusion and maintaining the package yourself. /!\ '''Important Note:''' Package request that don't give a good reason why the package cannot go to Fedora will get '''[[WishlistRemoved|removed]] from this list immediately''' without further notice; if you are unsure if a package is suitable for Fedora then submit it to [[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList|Fedora Wishlist]]; alternatively ask Fedora or RPM Fusion contributors for advice!

Note, there is no guarantee that package will be built, but it serves as a basis for maintainers looking for ideas on what to package next. The best way to get a package into RPM Fusion quickly is to join RPM Fusion and maintaining the package yourself.
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  Grounds for inclusion: why this package is not eligible as a regular Fedora package   Why not in Fedora: Explanation why this package is not eligible as a regular package in the Fedora repositories; packages request without a proper explanation will get removed from this list immediately!
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Place your current requests here.  Place your current requests here, '''''in alphabetical order'''''.
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  Request: anyremote-j2me-client
  Summary: J2ME client for anyRemote (bluetooth remote control for PC)
  URL: http://anyremote.sourceforge.net/
  Why not in Fedora: anyremote-j2me-client uses Sun WTK (which is free, but not open-source) for build.
  Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167

  Request: CDemu
  Summary: a kernel module simulate a CD drive + CD from cue/bin files
  URL: http://cdemu.sourceforge.net/
  Why not in Fedora: Fedora won't ship the kernel modules (RH #177583).

  Request: cinelerra
  Summary: One of the best video edition tools around
  URL: http://cinelerra.org/
  Why not in Fedora: Well, this package uses a lot of codecs available in livna/rpmfusion, so, that's why.
  Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118
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  Grounds for inclusion:   Why not in Fedora: Requires a commercial or shareware version of either DOOM, Ultimate DOOM or DOOM2

  Request: dvd::rip
  Summary: dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program which provides an easy to use but feature-rich GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process.
  URL: http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/
  Why not in Fedora: dvd::rip requires codecs, tools... for dvd reading/ripping that is not permitted by Fedora license.
  Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126
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  Grounds for inclusion: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora   Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
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  Request: gnometris
  Summary: A puzzle game in the style of tetris
  URL: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGames
  Grounds for inclusion: 		  Request: GnomeBoyAdvance
  Summary: Gnomeboyadvance is a GNOME frontend for the Visual Boy Advance emulator
  URL: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/gnomeboyadvance/
  Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora

  Request: HandBrake
  Summary: An open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
  URL: http://handbrake.fr/
  Why not in Fedora: Contains implementations of encoders and decoders for patented algorithms (e.g. MP3).
  Notes: This comes in both a CLI and GUI version, which would both be useful. Also, it requires libdvdcss to read DVDs directly.

  Request: Kdenlive
  Summary: A video editing program
  URL: http://www.kdenlive.org/
  Why not in Fedora: Probably because of codecs
  Notes: Requires mlt and mlt++ which are currently not in fedora either. See http://www.kdenlive.org/compile for more info.

  Request: LiVES
  Summary: LiVES is a Free, Open Source video editor *and* a VJ tool, using less resources than cinelerra.
  URL: http://lives.sourceforge.net/
  Why not in Fedora: Codecs used, as usual...
  Notes: rpms available from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64341&package_id=198331
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  URL: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=38347
  Grounds for inclusion: 		  URL: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/ManDVD?content=83906
  Why not in Fedora: It depends on packages already in RPM Fusion (FFmpeg, mplayer, transcode, etc)

  Request: moonlight
  Summary: Free implementation of Microsoft' Silverlight
  URL: http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
  Why not in Fedora: On the forbidden list due to patent concerns
  Notes: Already packaged for openSUSE' packman repo, package might be useful as a template - http://packman.links2linux.org/package/libmoon

  Request: netperf
  Summary: Network performance/benchmarking with the ability to benchmark many different protocols
  URL: http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage.html
  Why not in Fedora: Does not appear to be a compatible license, COPYING file states it's owned by HP, but the code appears to be FOSS.
  Notes: No special requirements or dependencies that I know of.

  Request: Open Movie Editor
  Summary: Open Movie Editor is a free and open source video editing program, designed for basic movie making capabilities. It aims do be powerful enough for the amateur movie artist, yet easy to use.
  URL: http://www.openmovieeditor.org/
  Why not in Fedora: The codecs it uses are not compatible with fedora's license.
  Notes: rpm already available in opensuse through the packman repos: http://packman.links2linux.de/package/OpenMovieEditor
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  Grounds for inclusion: Requires Abandonware data files   Why not in Fedora: Requires Abandonware data files
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  Grounds for inclusion: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora

  Request: pyscrabble
  Summary: An online multiplayer clone of the game Scrabble
  URL: http://pyscrabble.sourceforge.net/
  Grounds for inclusion:

  Request: Q DVD Author
  Summary: A QT frontend for DVD authoring
  URL: http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
  Grounds for inclusion:
  Notes: Seems far too unstable and quirky as yet, to be worth building
   Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
  Notes: pcsx-df (Debian fork) review has been dropped at Dribble (http://dribble.org.uk/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130)
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  Grounds for inclusion: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
 
  Request: sidplay2		   Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora

  Request: sidplay2 (review submitted at Dribble: BZ #122, BZ #123)
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  Grounds for inclusion: Emulators are not permitted Fedora   Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted Fedora
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  Request: SMPlayer
  Summary: A frontend for MPlayer written in Qt.
  URL: http://smplayer.sourceforge.net
  Grounds for inclusion:
  Notes: SMPlayer has optional KDE integration, which enables the use of KDE's file dialogs. It written with Qt 3, although can optionally be compiled with Qt 4		   Request: snack
  Summary: The Snack Sound Toolkit is designed to be used with a scripting language such as Tcl/Tk or Python. Using Snack you can create powerful multi-platform audio applications with just a few lines of code.
  URL: http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/
  Why not in Fedora: Has mp3 stuff in it
  Notes: This library will allow amsn to send/receive audio clips
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  Request: TA Spring
  Summary: 3D RTS game based on Total Annihilation
  URL: http://spring.clan-sy.com/
  Grounds for inclusion: 		  Request: Veejay
  Summary: visual instrument and realtime video sampler
  URL: http://www.veejayhq.net/
  Why not in Fedora: The engine is based upon ffmpeg and the mjpegtools

  Request: Visual Boy Advance
  Summary: A Gamboy Advance Emulator
  URL: http://vba.ngemu.com/
  Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
  Notes: Review Request: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177
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  Grounds for inclusion: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora   Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
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  Request: zaptel (In progress - Seeking sponsor to add WillTatam as a contributor)
  Summary: zaptel kernel module and utils for telephony cards		   Request: xsnow
  Summary: Xsnow is the X-windows application that will let it snow on the root, in between and on windows. Santa and his reindeer will complete your festive-season feeling.
  URL: http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/rick/Xsnow/
  Why not in Fedora: Unclear license, probably shareware-like. Freely distributable, but not Free Software
  Notes: A specfile for fedora available at http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/xsnow.spec

  Request: zaptel-kmod (In progress - Seeking sponsor to add WillTatam as a contributor)
  Summary: zaptel kernel module for telephony cards
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  Grounds for inclusion:   Why not in Fedora: Fedora won't ship the kernel modules (RH #177583).
  Notes: Asterisk (review RH #178922) and Zaptel tools (review RH #177584) are in Fedora.
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== Software we won't package ==

{{{
  Request: AdobeReader
  Summary: An application that can view, navigate and print PDF documents
  Notes: Adobe provides its own Yum repository for Adobe Reader and Flash - see http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2008/02/adobe_reader_now_available_via.html
  URL: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html
  Why not in RPM Fusion: It is not re-distributable. See http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/distribute.html

  Request: libdvdcss
  Summary: A library for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the Content Scramble System (CSS)
  URL: http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
  Why not in RPM Fusion: The short story is: It was agreed on not to ship it due to various reasons around the fact that libdvdcss is a bit more complicated (or dangerous) than all the other software RPM Fusion offeres have. The long story and all the arguments for and against shipping it can be found in the mailing lists archives.

 Livna and Freshrpms will provide libdvdcss for the forseeable future.
}}}

Package Requests

Use this page to post a request for a packages that can't go to Fedora but would be nice to have in the RPM Fusion repository.

/!\ Important Note: Package request that don't give a good reason why the package cannot go to Fedora will get removed from this list immediately without further notice; if you are unsure if a package is suitable for Fedora then submit it to Fedora Wishlist; alternatively ask Fedora or RPM Fusion contributors for advice!

Note, there is no guarantee that package will be built, but it serves as a basis for maintainers looking for ideas on what to package next. The best way to get a package into RPM Fusion quickly is to join RPM Fusion and maintaining the package yourself.

Please edit this page to add a new request ensuring the layout is maintained. For example: 

  Request: foo
  Summary: A program that does all sorts of foo
  URL: http://www.example.com
  Why not in Fedora: Explanation why this package is not eligible as a regular package in the Fedora repositories; packages request without a proper explanation will get removed from this list immediately!
  Notes: Optional notes section which may be useful for potential packagers

Requests will be removed where an RPM already exists in Fedora or RPM Fusion itself.

Current Requests

Place your current requests here, in alphabetical order. 

  Request: anyremote-j2me-client
  Summary: J2ME client for anyRemote (bluetooth remote control for PC)
  URL: http://anyremote.sourceforge.net/
  Why not in Fedora: anyremote-j2me-client uses Sun WTK (which is free, but not open-source) for build.
  Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167

  Request: CDemu
  Summary: a kernel module simulate a CD drive + CD from cue/bin files
  URL: http://cdemu.sourceforge.net/
  Why not in Fedora: Fedora won't ship the kernel modules (RH #177583).

  Request: cinelerra
  Summary: One of the best video edition tools around
  URL: http://cinelerra.org/
  Why not in Fedora: Well, this package uses a lot of codecs available in livna/rpmfusion, so, that's why.
  Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118

  Request: Doom Legacy 2.0
  Summary: SDL Open GL Doom Source port (WIP refer to the legacy forum or svn directory)
  URL: http://legacy.newdoom.com
  Why not in Fedora: Requires a commercial or shareware version of either DOOM, Ultimate DOOM or DOOM2

  Request: dvd::rip
  Summary: dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program which provides an easy to use but feature-rich GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process.
  URL: http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/
  Why not in Fedora: dvd::rip requires codecs, tools... for dvd reading/ripping that is not permitted by Fedora license.
  Notes: Review Request at https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126

  Request: generator
  Summary: An open-source Sega Genesis / Megadrive emulator
  URL: http://www.ghostwhitecrab.com/generator/
  Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora

  Request: GnomeBoyAdvance
  Summary: Gnomeboyadvance is a GNOME frontend for the Visual Boy Advance emulator
  URL: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/gnomeboyadvance/
  Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora

  Request: HandBrake
  Summary: An open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.
  URL: http://handbrake.fr/
  Why not in Fedora: Contains implementations of encoders and decoders for patented algorithms (e.g. MP3).
  Notes: This comes in both a CLI and GUI version, which would both be useful.  Also, it requires libdvdcss to read DVDs directly.

  Request: Kdenlive
  Summary: A video editing program
  URL: http://www.kdenlive.org/
  Why not in Fedora: Probably because of codecs
  Notes: Requires mlt and mlt++ which are currently not in fedora either.  See http://www.kdenlive.org/compile for more info.

  Request: LiVES
  Summary: LiVES is a Free, Open Source video editor *and* a VJ tool, using less resources than cinelerra.
  URL: http://lives.sourceforge.net/
  Why not in Fedora: Codecs used, as usual...
  Notes: rpms available from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64341&package_id=198331

  Request: ManDVD
  Summary: KDE based DVD creation program.
  URL: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/ManDVD?content=83906
  Why not in Fedora: It depends on packages already in RPM Fusion (FFmpeg, mplayer, transcode, etc)

  Request: moonlight
  Summary: Free implementation of Microsoft' Silverlight
  URL: http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
  Why not in Fedora: On the forbidden list due to patent concerns
  Notes: Already packaged for openSUSE' packman repo, package might be useful as a template - http://packman.links2linux.org/package/libmoon 

  Request: netperf
  Summary: Network performance/benchmarking with the ability to benchmark many different protocols
  URL: http://www.netperf.org/netperf/NetperfPage.html
  Why not in Fedora: Does not appear to be a compatible license, COPYING file states it's owned by HP, but the code appears to be FOSS.
  Notes: No special requirements or dependencies that I know of.

  Request: Open Movie Editor
  Summary: Open Movie Editor is a free and open source video editing program, designed for basic movie making capabilities. It aims do be powerful enough for the amateur movie artist, yet easy to use.
  URL: http://www.openmovieeditor.org/
  Why not in Fedora: The codecs it uses are not compatible with fedora's license.
  Notes: rpm already available in opensuse through the packman repos: http://packman.links2linux.de/package/OpenMovieEditor

  Request: OpenTTD
  Summary: OpenTTD is a clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe"
  URL: http://www.openttd.org
  Why not in Fedora: Requires Abandonware data files
  Notes: A fedora package is available at Hany's repository: http://hany.sk/~hany/_data/SRPM/doors-f7/

  Request: PCSX
  Summary: An open-source Sony PlayStation emulator
  URL: http://www.pcsx.net/
  Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
  Notes: pcsx-df (Debian fork) review has been dropped at Dribble (http://dribble.org.uk/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130)
  Request: sdlhazemd
  Summary: HazeMD is a Megadrive/Genesis emulator based on the MAME code
  URL: http://rbelmont.mameworld.info/?page_id=163
  Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora

  Request: sidplay2 (review submitted at Dribble: BZ #122, BZ #123)
  Summary: A cycle-exact version of sidplay (which is in Extras) also utilizing C64 ROMs
  URL: http://sidplay2.sourceforge.net/
  Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted Fedora
  Notes: Needs libsidplay2 to be packaged as it's not available in upstream repos

  Request: snack
  Summary: The Snack Sound Toolkit is designed to be used with a scripting language such as Tcl/Tk or Python. Using Snack you can create powerful  multi-platform audio applications with just a few lines of code.
  URL: http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/
  Why not in Fedora: Has mp3 stuff in it
  Notes: This library will allow amsn to send/receive audio clips

  Request: Veejay
  Summary: visual instrument and realtime video sampler
  URL: http://www.veejayhq.net/
  Why not in Fedora: The engine is based upon ffmpeg and the mjpegtools

  Request: Visual Boy Advance
  Summary: A Gamboy Advance Emulator
  URL: http://vba.ngemu.com/
  Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora
  Notes: Review Request: https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177

  Request: Xe
  Summary: A multi system emulator emulates many console and handheld video game systems. Xe is an original emulator written from scratch.
  URL: http://www.xe-emulator.com/
  Why not in Fedora: Emulators are not permitted in Fedora

  Request: xsnow
  Summary: Xsnow is the X-windows application that will let it snow on the root, in between and on windows. Santa and his reindeer will complete your festive-season feeling.
  URL: http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/rick/Xsnow/
  Why not in Fedora: Unclear license, probably shareware-like. Freely distributable, but not Free Software
  Notes: A specfile for fedora available at http://users.linpro.no/ingvar/xsnow.spec

  Request: zaptel-kmod (In progress - Seeking sponsor to add WillTatam as a contributor)
  Summary: zaptel kernel module for telephony cards
  URL: http://www.asterisk.org/
  Why not in Fedora: Fedora won't ship the kernel modules (RH #177583).
  Notes: Asterisk (review RH #178922) and Zaptel tools (review RH #177584) are in Fedora.

Maintainers: If you decide to work on a package requested here, please label it as "in progress" for example - Request: foo (in progress). Once the package has been published, remove it from this list. Thanks.

Software we won't package

  Request: AdobeReader
  Summary: An application that can view, navigate and print PDF documents
  Notes: Adobe provides its own Yum repository for Adobe Reader and Flash - see http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2008/02/adobe_reader_now_available_via.html
  URL: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html
  Why not in RPM Fusion: It is not re-distributable. See http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/distribute.html

  Request: libdvdcss
  Summary: A library for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the Content Scramble System (CSS)
  URL: http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
  Why not in RPM Fusion: The short story is: It was agreed on not to ship it due to various reasons around the fact that libdvdcss is a bit more complicated (or dangerous) than all the other software RPM Fusion offeres have. The long story and all the arguments for and against shipping it can be found in the mailing lists archives.

 Livna and Freshrpms will provide libdvdcss for the forseeable future.

Wishlist (last edited 2023-11-14 09:37:58 by anonymous)