#1115269 O: ddd -- Data Display Debugger, a graphical debugger frontend

Package:
wnpp
Source:
wnpp
Submitter:
Chris Hofstädtler
Date:
2026-08-04 08:55:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1115269#5
Date:
2025-09-14 21:22:55 UTC
From:
To:
As announced in #1109779, I intend to orphan the ddd package. The
previous maintainer seems to be not active or at least not active on
the ddd package.
In the meantime upstream has released new versions.

The package description is:
 The Data Display Debugger (DDD) is a popular graphical user interface to
 UNIX debuggers such as GDB, DBX, XDB, JDB and others. Besides typical
 front-end features such as viewing source texts and breakpoints, DDD
 provides an interactive graphical data display, where data structures are
 displayed as graphs. Using DDD, you can reason about your application by
 watching its data, not just by viewing it execute lines of source code.
 .
 Other DDD features include: debugging of programs written in Ada, Bash, C,
 C++, Chill, Fortran, Java, Modula, Pascal, Perl and Python; machine-level
 debugging; hypertext source navigation and lookup; breakpoint, backtrace,
 and history editors; preferences and settings editors; program execution
 in terminal emulator window; debugging on remote host; on-line manual;
 interactive help on the Motif user interface; GDB/DBX/XDB command-line
 interface with full editing, history, and completion capabilities.
 .
 This version is linked against Lesstif, an LGPL-ed implementation of Motif.

#1115269#12
Date:
2025-09-15 07:32:49 UTC
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To:
Hi.  I'm interested in adopting and helping maintain this package, but
only if it becomes team-maintained.  Is there any relevant team this
package would belong in?

Are you aware of any big rewrites necessary to update to latest upstream
version?

/Simon

Chris Hofstädtler <zeha@debian.org> writes:

#1115269#17
Date:
2025-09-16 06:45:42 UTC
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To:
* Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> [250915 09:32]:

Don't know.

Also don't know.

Please don't TOFU in the BTS.

Best,
Chris

#1115269#22
Date:
2025-11-03 12:33:15 UTC
From:
To:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ddd/-/merge_requests/5

It has all needed fixes to package the latest upstream version. I
would be happy to join team maintenance too.

Best regards,
Tormod

#1115269#27
Date:
2026-08-04 08:27:00 UTC
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To:
Hi,

I plan to work on this package with Tormod and also Eric Herman, and
upload a new version of DDD in the coming weeks.