gNewSense se base sur Debian pour sa nouvelle version mais sur l’ancienne stable. gNewSense respecte les critères du logiciel libre de la FSF donc ne se base que sur la branche main de Debian. Cela dit, certains paquets (188 binaires) sont absents de Parkes bien que présents dans Squeeze. Voici la liste
abuse-frabs
acetoneiso
aee
alpine
alpine-dbg
alpine-pico
angband-doc
asterisk
asterisk-config
asterisk-dbg
asterisk-dev
asterisk-doc
asterisk-h323
asterisk-sounds-main
avogadro
avogadro-data
axiom
axiom-databases
axiom-doc
axiom-graphics
axiom-graphics-data
axiom-hypertex
axiom-hypertex-data
axiom-source
axiom-test
axiom-tex
blender
bnetd
bogofilter
bogofilter-bdb
bogofilter-common
bogofilter-sqlite
bogofilter-tokyocabinet
boinc-app-seti
bubbros
capiutils
chromium
chromium-browser
chromium-browser-dbg
chromium-browser-inspector
chromium-browser-l10n
chromium-bsu
chromium-bsu-data
chromium-data
cia-clients
command-not-found
debian-faq-de
debian-faq-fr
debian-faq-it
debian-faq-zh-cn
debian-reference
debian-reference-common
debian-reference-de
debian-reference-en
debian-reference-es
debian-reference-fr
debian-reference-it
debian-reference-ja
debian-reference-pl
debian-reference-pt
debian-reference-pt-br
debian-reference-zh-cn
debian-reference-zh-tw
deborphan
dist
dokuwiki
durep
etktab
filters
galeon
galeon-common
gbase
holotz-castle
holotz-castle-data
holotz-castle-editor
icedove
icedove-dbg
icedove-dev
icmpinfo
iog
ipppd
isdnlog
isdnlog-data
isdnutils
isdnutils-base
isdnutils-doc
isdnutils-xtools
isdnvbox
isdnvboxclient
isdnvboxserver
ivman
libapache2-mod-log-sql
libapache2-mod-log-sql-dbi
libapache2-mod-log-sql-mysql
libapache2-mod-log-sql-ssl
libavogadro1
libavogadro-dev
libcapi20-3
libcapi20-dev
libscilab-java
libshhmsg1
libshhmsg1-dev
libshhopt1
libshhopt1-dev
libxprintapputil1
libxprintapputil-dev
linux-wlan-ng
linux-wlan-ng-doc
linux-wlan-ng-source
live-manual
live-manual-epub
live-manual-html
live-manual-odf
live-manual-pdf
live-manual-txt
lphdisk
mailagent
mancala
maradns
movabletype-opensource
movabletype-plugin-core
movabletype-plugin-zemanta
mpc
mummer
mummer-doc
nbibtex
nbibtex-doc
ncc
ndisgtk
ndiswrapper-common
ndiswrapper-dkms
ndiswrapper-source
ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
njplot
openbox-themes
pennmush
pennmush-common
pennmush-i18n
pennmush-mysql
pilot
postmark
pppdcapiplugin
psgml
python-avogadro
python-software-properties
qstat
rest2web
rest2web-doc
rmagic
rman
scilab
scilab-cli
scilab-data
scilab-doc
scilab-doc-fr
scilab-doc-pt-br
scilab-full-bin
scilab-full-bin-dbg
scilab-include
scilab-minimal-bin
scilab-minimal-bin-dbg
scilab-test
scummvm
scummvm-data
sharand
simutrans
simutrans-data
simutrans-makeobj
simutrans-pak128.britain
simutrans-pak64
software-properties-gtk
software-properties-kde
tagcloud
tigr-glimmer
tinymux
tkman
unetbootin
unetbootin-translations
vrms
wakeonlan
wily
wwwstat
xdrawchem
xxkb
z88dk
z88dk-bin
z88dk-data
z88dk-doc