Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Philippe Troin, phil@fifi.org
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.58 1997/11/10 10:09:58 phil Exp $
1. General Questions
1.1. Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
<http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/>.
1.2. Purpose of this document
This document is intended to identify areas that need your
contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite
often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ.
1.3. Getting newer versions of this document
Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP:
o <http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html>
o <ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-
packages.txt>
o <ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-
packages.html>
o <ftp://ftp.fifi.org/pub/debian-local/WNPP/>
1.4. Feedback
Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Philippe
Troin phil@fifi.org. Please mention to which version of this document
your comments refer.
Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're
talking about, it makes it easier for me to sort out all "Re: Work-
Needing and Prospective Packages" emails I get. A suggested subject
line reads "WNPP: removing foopackage" or "WNPP: working on
barpackage". Thanks.
2. Changes
2.1. Since version 1.57 1997/10/06
o Moved addressbook to orphaned.
o Freeciv adopted by Richard Braakman <mailto:dark@xs4all.nl>.
o Linux explorer moved to section "packages someone is working on".
o xscreensaver taken over by Craig Small <mailto:csmall@debian.org>.
o Added sidplay in section "packages someone is working on".
o Dropped bzip2 from "needed packages".
o Dmalloc adopted by Luis Francisco Gonzalez
<luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk>.
o Added lurkftp and htdig into "packages needing a new maintainer".
o Moved hyperlatex and latex2rtf from "packages needing a new
maintainer" to orphans section.
o Gnuplot adopted by Tibor Simko
<mailto:tibor.simko@aleph.dpp.fmph.uniba.sk>.
o Added typist and realvideo-installer to "packages someone is
working on".
o Ptx adopted by Santiago Vila Doncel <mailto:sanvila@unex.es>.
o Gcl and gclinfo adopted by Steve Dunham
<mailto:dunham@cps.msu.edu>.
o Mesa and glut adopted by James A.Treacy <mailto:treacy@debian.org>.
o Sox adopted by Guenter Geiger <mailto:geiger@iem.mhsg.ac.at>.
o Stefan Gybas <mailto:cab@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de> is working on
hsc.
o Christian Leutloff <mailto:leutloff@sundancer.oche.de> is working
on jadetex, dtdparse, delimmatch, newtonlink biss-awt.
o James R. Van Zandt <mailto:jrv@vanzandt.mv.com> is working on
emacsspeak-{bs,ap,ac,xx} (Sorry for the bashism ;-).
o Hamish Moffatt <mailto:hamish@debian.org> is working on www-sql.
o Fvwm95, ncompress, upsd, xskat back into the orphans list.
o Fdos and komirr removed (dropped).
o Ircd adopted by the mysterious Ben (ask Christoph Lameter
<mailto:clameter@waterf.org>).
o Willows added to the list of wanted packages.
o Oliver Elphick <mailto:olly@linda.lfix.co.uk> is working on
PostgreSQL.
o Thhtpd was dropped.
o Idutch and wdutch adopted by Richard Braakman
<mailto:dark@xs4all.nl>.
o Xosview adopted by Radu Duta <mailto:rduta@xtra.co.nz>.
o David Damerell <mailto:damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> is working
on mangband.
o Libkde0, libkde0-dev, kdeapps adopted by Andreas Jellinghaus
<mailto:aj@dungeon.inka.de>.
o Dropped trafshow (already in netdiag package).
o Newly uploaded packages (removed):
o xmgr
o xzx
o screen
o xconq
o figfonts
o xonix
o fidogate
2.2. Since version 1.56 1997/09/08
o General cleanup of orphans package (no visible changes).
o Started probing for people who claimed they wanted to take over a
package and never did it.
o Fixed a bad url.
o Removed cam from "packages someone is working on", uploaded.
o Restored majordomo in "packages needing a new maintainer" (new
maintainer renounced).
o Removed hpcdtoppm from "packages someone is working on" and added
gom instead (gom supercedes hpcdtoppm).
o Gpc, libgpc2 and gpc-doc taken over by Paul J. Thompson
<mailto:thomppj@thomppj.student.okstate.edu> and removed.
o Gs, gsfonts, gs-aladdin and libpaper taken over by Marco Pistore
<mailto:marco@pisa.sbn.it> and removed.
o Ucbmpeg and ucbmpeg-play taken over by Johnie Ingram
<mailto:johnie@netgod.net> and removed.
o Xmorph uploaded and removed from "packages someone is working on".
o Added bzip2 to "packages someone should package" section.
o Vrweb taken over by Larry Gilbert <mailto:irving@pobox.com>.
o Orphaned guavac, javalex, java-cup and rsynth.
o Wnorwegian taken over by Ole Jrgen Tetlie <mailto:olet@ifi.uio.no>.
o Jean Pierre LeJacq <mailto:jplejacq@quoininc.com> is working on
crack and cracklib.
o Xfig and transfig taken over by Enrique Zanardi
<mailto:ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es>.
o Isite, linuxlogo, loadlin, ncsa, omir, pash, poppassd, syslinux,
transproxy, worklog taken over by a mysterious Ben (ask Christoph
Lameter <mailto:clameter@waterf.org>).
o Added autofs, floppybackup, jered, nat, optimizer, sftp, ssmtp to
"packages to give away".
o Enrique Zanardi <mailto:ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es> is working on
xmgr.
o Added addressbook as package to give away.
o Xfmail uploaded and removed from "packages someone is working on".
o offix-clipboard, offix-editor, offix-execute, offix-files, offix-
trash taken over by James LewisMoss <mailto:dres@dimensional.com>.
o Removed the packages Karl Sackett was working on (leaving the
project).
2.3. Since version 1.55 1997/08/25
o Fixed a typo in PVM (was PVW).
o Removed xgammon from "packages someone is working on" (uploaded to
master).
o Removed xpat2 and xsok from "packages needing a new maintainer"
(new maintainer is Joel Rosdahl <mailto:joel@debian.org>.
o Cflow taken over by Ioannis Tambouras <mailto:ioannis@flinet.com>.
o Majordomo taken over by Andy Kahn USG <mailto:kahn@zk3.dec.com>.
o Changed the email for Drake Diedrich to be
Drake.Diedrich@anu.edu.au instead of dld@empire.anu.edu.au.
o Orphaned tcl74, tk40, tcl75, tk41, tclx74, tclx75, tix40.
o Added abc2ps and abcmidi in "packages someone is working on".
o Added battalion to "packages someone is working on" and moved
"rocks and diamonds" to it (used to be in the needed packages
section).
o Xfishtank and xgalaga taken over by Joey Hess
<mailto:joey@kite.ml.org>.
2.4. Since version 1.54 1997/08/18
o Removed asp from "packages someone is working on" (uploaded).
o Orphaned tkman.
o Bin86 taken over by Juan Cespedes <mailto:cespedes@etsit.upm.es>.
o Orphaned pgcc.
o Added majordomo to "packages needing a new maintainer".
o Removed smalleiffel from "packages someone is working on".
o Deliver taken over by Scott K. Ellis <mailto:storm@gate.net>.
o newsx taken over by Adrian Bridgett
<mailto:adrian.bridgett@poboxes.com>.
o Added pppload and trafshow in "packages someone is working on".
o OmniORB (preivously listed in wanted packages) is being worked on.
o Figlet taken over by Francesco Tapparo
<mailto:f.tapparo@vi.nettuno.it>.
o Added xfmail to "packages someone is working on".
2.5. Since version 1.53 1997/08/11
o Fixed address for Will Lowe to be harpo@udel.edu.
o Fixed address for Hamish Moffatt to be hmoffatt@mail.com.
o Removed JADE from packages not yet available (already packagedin
hamm).
o Added asp to "packages someone is working on".
o Speak-freely taken over by Dave Restall <mailto:dave@restall.net>.
o Hypernews is being packaged by Brian S. Julin
<mailto:bri@mojo.calyx.net> instead of Larry Gilbert
<mailto:irving@pobox.com>.
o Added hypermail to "packages needing a new maintainer".
o Orphaned file-rc.
3. Orphaned packages
(An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.)
Please inform me via e-mail:
o when you find that you need to orphan a package
o when you believe that the following list is incomplete
o when you would like to maintain one of these packages.
Orn E. Hansen :
o dialdcost
o xega
o xmailtool
o xspread
Yves Arrouye Yves.Arrouye@marin.fdn.fr :
o compress-package
o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs
o psptools
Dominik Kubla dominik@debian.org :
o arpd
o csh
Brian C. White bcwhite@verisim.com :
o zyxel
Raul D. Miller moth@firefly.com :
o j1 (in old source format)
o sam (in old source format)
Michael Nonweiler mrn20@cam.ac.uk :
o nas
Jim Robinson jimr@simons-rock.edu :
o mh-papers
o term
o witalian
o pari, paridoc
Doug Geiger runexe@ntplx.net :
o apsfilter
Erick Branderhorst branderh@debian.IAEhv.nl :
o giftrans
o mathpad
o mfbasfnt
o wenglish
Christian Linhart chris@cosy.sbg.ac.at :
o statserial
o xarchie
o bibindex
Shaya Potter spotter@CapAccess.org :
o opie
o pgcc
Stuart Lamble lamble@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au :
o fsp
Guy R. Thomas gthomas@native-ed.bc.ca :
o dld (do we still need this ?)
Patrick J Edwards edwards@cambridgnet.sk.ca :
o mailpgp
Dermot Bradley bradley@muck.gpl.net :
o radiusd-merit
Robert Leslie rob@mars.org :
o hfsutils
o motifnls
Tom Lees tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk :
o file-rc
David Engel david@ods.com :
o tcl74
o tcl75
o tk40
o tk41
o tkman
Philippe Troin phil@fifi.org :
o tclx74
o tclx75
o tix40
Michael Fletcher zidj@geocities.com :
o guavac
o javalex
o java-cup
o rsynth
Karl Sackett krs@cortex.caos.aamu.edu :
o 9fonts
o 9menu
o 9term
o 9wm
o courtney
o freelip
o groupkit
o imgstar
o lee
o libtclobjc
o mimedecode
o objpak
o pgapack
o premail
o saoimage
o snns
o swisswatch
o tcs
o tkdiff
o wily
o xbattle
o xephem-smotif
o xpostitplus
Hakan Ardo hakan@debian.org :
o addressbook
Christian Schwarz schwarz@monet.m.isar.de :
o hyperlatex
o latex2rtf
Others:
o rc
o xcompat (should we drop it ?)
o libc4 (a.out compatibility)
4. Packages needing a new maintainer
Please inform me via e-mail:
o when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package
Please inform the mainatiner of the package:
o when you would like to maintain one of the packages.
Sven Rudolph sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de :
o chimera (should be upgraded to v1.70)
o enscript
o seyon
o lpr
Martin Schulze joey@infodrom.north.de :
o xarclock
o lha
Joe Kirby kirby@utk.edu :
o lxtools
Christoph Lameter clameter@waterf.org :
o adbbs
o autofs
o automount
o bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X)
o defrag
o floppybackup
o freefont
o sharefont
o jered
o mserver
o nat
o optimizer
o sftp
o ssmtp
o zmailer
o fvwm95
o ncompress
o xskat
o berolist
o verse
o knfs
Karl Ferguson karl@tower.net.au :
o sysutils
Christian Schwarz schwarz@monet.m.isar.de :
o dvi2tty
o info2www
o mysql
o lurkftp
o htdig
Vincent Renardias vincent@waw.com :
o ftplib
o lde
o libdnd1
o libdnd1-dev
o macutils
o mcvert
o xabacus
o xmcpustate
o xodo
Michael Meskes meskes@topsystem.de :
o html2latex
o icmake
o ntfs
o xftp
Joost Witteveen joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl :
o axe
o pixmap
o pstoedit
o wm2
Johnie Ingram johnie@netgod.net :
o flin
Andreas Jellinghaus aj@dungeon.inka.de :
o isdnutils
Scott K. Ellis storm@gate.net :
o hypermail
Tom Lees tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk :
o majordomo
5. Packages that someone is working on
Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian
packages, but someone is working on providing a package.
If you would like to work on one of these packages please contact the
responsible person listed below.
Darren torin@daft.com :
o giftool
Brian Sulcer bsulcer@gibson.com :
o vile (vi-like editor)
o rogue
o umoria
Martin Schulze joey@infodrom.north.de :
o vtwm: Virtual Window Manager for X11
o yodl
o w3-msql (W3 frontend for mSQL)
Christian Lynbech lynbech@daimi.aau.dk :
o ilisp (emacs interface to a number of lisp systems)
o hyperbole (emacs hypertext/info management system)
o oobr (emacs package for browsing OO programs)
o STk (Scheme Tk, a scheme interpreter with Tk support)
Dermot Bradley bradley@debian.org :
o Umich LDAP
o Nocol (network admin/monitoring)
Vincent Renardias vincent@odin.waw.com :
o FWF (Free Widget Foundation) - A pretty good set of graphic widgets
o Aero (A Physically Based Simulation and Animation System -
<http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/bv/aero/> )
Klee Dienes klee@sedona.com :
o NIST's POSIX validation suite
Yoshiaki Yanagihara yosiaki@bsd2.kbnes.nec.co.jp :
o japanese packages (mule, kon, kterm, canna, Japanese Extended less)
Boris D. Beletsky borik@isracom.co.il :
o MIT scheme
o Freedom Desktop <ftp://fsw.com/pub/fdlite/FDlite1.32.tar.gz>
Christian Leutloff leutloff@sundancer.tng.oche.de :
o newtonlink
o jadetex
o dtdparse
o delimmatch
o biss-awt
Todd Graham Lewis tlewis@mindspring.com :
o Kerberos ver. V (crypto) (non-US maintainer still needed)
o socks
Bill Bumgarner bbum@friday.com :
o GnuStep-related packages
Kai Henningsen kai@khms.westfalen.de :
o sather
Loic Prylli lprylli@graville.fdn.fr :
o jove
John Goerzen jgoerzen@complete.org :
o WorldVU-Atlantis BBS package
o midiplay (MIDI player)
Tristan McCann trismcc@nh.ultranet.com :
o Linux phone
Martin Alonso Soto Jacome masoto@uniandes.edu.co :
o jazz midi sequencer <http://rokke.grm.hia.no/per/jazz.html>
Christian Meder christian.meder@utoronto.ca :
o MuPAD
Andy Mortimer andy.mortimer@poboxes.com :
o TinyMUSH
Lalo Martins lalo@webcom.com :
o djgpp
o enlightenment
o enlighthemes
o imlib
o rxvt-imlib
o eterm
Yann Dirson dirson@univ-mlv.fr :
o perl5 programming (documentation)
o Using SGML - basic concepts (documentation)
o Understanding and writing SGML DTDs (documentation)
Hamish Moffatt hamish@debian.org :
o mars_nwe <ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs> (Netware server )
o www-sql
Mark Mickan mmickan@ozemail.com.au :
o hylafax
Marco Budde Marco.Budde@hqsys.antar.com :
o HTML version of Matt Welsh's "Installation & Getting Started"
Drake Diedrich Drake.Diedrich@anu.edu.au :
o PVM
o DQS
Charles Briscoe-Smith cpb4@ukc.ac.uk :
o UPS - the X-based debugger. (There are Linux-specific patches
around.)
o GSpreview
Peter Tonoli anarchie@brimstone.suburbia.net :
o terroid
Joost Kooij joost@kooij.com :
o xbat
Will Lowe harpo@udel.edu :
o clisp
Stephan Suerken suerken@fh-worms.de :
o uae
o gom
o xpcd
Brian S. Julin bri@mojo.calyx.net :
o hypernews
Adrian Bridgett adrian.bridgett@poboxes.com :
o pppload
Robert Resendes resendes@ici.net :
o omniORB <http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html>
Anselm Lingnau lingnau@tm.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de :
o abc2ps
o abcmidi
Ole Jrgen Tetlie olet@ifi.uio.no :
o rocks and diamonds
o battalion
Jean Pierre LeJacq jplejacq@quoininc.com :
o crack
o cracklib
Craig Small csmall@debian.org :
o linux explorer (a file manager a la windows explorer) Linux
Explorer <http://jungfrau.ptf.hro.nl/explorer>
Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de :
o sidplay
Federico Di Gregorio fog@perosa.alpcom.it :
o reiserfs
Ben Armstrong synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca :
o typist
Joey Hess joey@kitenet.net :
o a realvideo installer
Stefan Gybas cab@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de :
o hsc
James R. Van Zandt jrv@vanzandt.mv.com :
o emacsspeak-bs
o emacsspeak-ap
o emacsspeak-ac
o emacsspeak-xx
Oliver Elphick olly@linda.lfix.co.uk :
o postgresql
David Damerell damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk :
o mangband
6. Programs that aren't available yet in Debian
Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian
packages, but there has been an expressed desire to include them.
If you want to create a Debian package, send me an e-mail.
6.1. Programming and development:
o Scheme->C
o ECoLisp - a Common Lisp compiler that produces faster code but
isn't as widely used as GCL
o CLiCC - Common Lisp compiler that generates stand-alone apps
(rather large ones, though)
o CLX - Common Lisp Xlib implementation
o PCL - Portable Common Loops for GCL
o Cross-compilation environments for alpha, m68k, SPARC
o Modula-3
<http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/home.html>
(building this requires up to 200MB hard disk space!)
o ACE <http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html> (a free C++
library)
6.2. USENET news software:
o strn.
6.3. Graphics:
o Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system,
Dore'.
6.4. X11:
o Andrew
o grok (database with many functions)
o xidle
6.5. Networking/Communication
o Roxen <http://www.roxen.com/> (WWW server)
o ftptool
o Speakerphone/Answering Machine for USR and Rockwell Modems
<http://www.mindspring.com/~bnaylor/spk/>
o AX25 software
o multicast (MBONE)
6.6. Text utilities
o HTML editors (tkHTML, auc-html.el)
o Virtual Paper
<http://www.research.digital.com:80/SRC/virtualpaper/>
o agrep <ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/agrep>
6.7. Misc
o Artificial Life Programs ( http://alife.santafe.edu )
o Acmaint <ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/ACMAINT/> (User
administration tool)
o Willows <http://www.willows.com>.
7. Programs that someone should write
This section contains suggestions/wishes for programs. There is no
known implementation of such a program for Linux.
o amspell (ms-dos) like spell checker, i.e. a spell checker what
checks the complete text first, searching for alternatives (on the
fly) and asking for user action at the very end of the checking
process. This saves much time on low memory machines.
o A Debian administration tool. If possible with text frontend, web
frontend and x11 frontend.
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