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Re: FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages



Changes against version 1.6 :
- rpncalc, uutraf, magicfilter, dump, apache are now available
- David Engel <david@elo.ods.com> will provide tkined / scotty
- "Prud'homme Christophe" <prudhomm@lions.asci.fr> will provide XEmacs
- Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@drinkel.ow.org> will provide INN
- Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@fgg.eur.nl>  will provide mathpad
- Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de> wants to give linuxdoc-sgml and
  adduser

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Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
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1. General Questions

1.1. What is Debian GNU/Linux

Please read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ.  The Debian GNU/Linux WWW server
is at http://www.debian.org/ , the FAQ is located at
http://www.debian.org/FAQ/ . The FAQ is available via FTP at
ftp.debian.org:/debian/doc .


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. What do I need to know in order to become a package maintainer ?

Please read the Maintainers FAQ, it is at
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/standards/Maintainers-FAQ .
(It is work-in-progress right now and is partially obsolete.)

There is a draft of the packaging guidelines floating around.  I will
send you the current draft on request.

You should subscribe to the debian-devel mailing list, details are
given in the FAQ.


1.4. Feedback

Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Sven
Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>.  Please mention to which version of
this document your comments refer.

The Id of this version is :
$Id: packages,v 1.7 1996/01/23 23:46:39 sr1 Exp $


2. Package that have no current maintainer

Packages listed in this section are still part of Debian (unless they
have too many bugs), but the maintainer had reasons to not continue
maintaining it. (Remember: Debian is mainly produced by volunteers who
are not paid for maintaining Debian packages.)

If you find that you need to discontinue maintaining a package, send
me an e-mail.

If you believe that the following list is incomplete, i.e., that there
are other packages in the Debian distribution that currently have no
active maintainer, send me an e-mail.

If you would like to maintain one of the packages listed here, send me
an e-mail.

* ghostscript, gsfonts 	previously maintained by Ted Hajek 
			<tedhajek@boombox.micro.umn.edu>

* elm		\
* ircii		 \	previously maintained by
* wenglish	 /	Carl Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu>
* unzip, zip	/

* strace

* motifnls	\	previously maintained by
* e2fsprogs	/	"Andrew D. Fernandes" <adfernan@cnd.mcgill.ca>


3. Packages that the maintainer wants to give away

Packages listed in this section are still part of Debian, but the
maintainer wants to find a new maintainer. It isn't as urgent to find
a new maintainer as in the previous section.

If you maintain Debian packages that you would like to hand off, send
me an e-mail, then I will add this package to this section.

If you would like to maintain one of the packages listed here, write
to the current maintainer of this package.

* seyon		\	currently maintained by Sven Rudolph
* linuxdoc-sgml	 >	<sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>
* adduser	/


4. 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.

Chris Fearnley <cjf@netaxs.com> :
* dome (http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf/jpegs.html)
* and probably : xli, Tix, povray

"brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca> :
* wine

krs@caos.aamu.edu (Karl R. Sackett) :
* CLX - Common Lisp Xlib implementation
* PCL - Portable Common Loops for GCL
* Mesa - 3-D graphics library

Dale Miller <dale@csd.uwo.ca> :
* lclint (ftp://larch.lcs.mit.edu/pub/Larch/lclint/ )

Richard Kaszeta <kaszeta@me.umn.edu> :
* xmotd
* netscape

Mike Wilson <cmwilson@uncc.edu> :
* mule

Fernando Alegre <alegre@mars.superlink.net> :
* mc

Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de> :
* xbill
* NCSA Mosaic (waiting for 2.7)

"behan (b.) webster" <behanw@bnr.ca>
* sxpc (Simple Xwindows Protocol Compresser)
* ncsa-httpd
* qfax (multi-user e-mail extension to efax).

CD Rasmussen <cdr@sme.siemens.com>:
* xautolock
* mdutils ( Utils for md, the linux RAID 0/1 driver )

wendal@onyx.southwind.net:
* tkHTML

Darren <torin@daft.com> :
* netpbm,mew, figlet, giftool, weblint

David Frey <david@eos.uu.ch> :
* GNU recode

David Engel <david@elo.ods.com> :
* tkined / scotty (tk-based network analysis)

"Prud'homme Christophe" <prudhomm@lions.asci.fr> :
* Xemacs

Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@drinkel.ow.org> :
* INN (waiting for inn1.4unoff4)

Erick Branderhorst <branderhorst@fgg.eur.nl> :
* mathpad (almost WYSIWIG-Editor for LaTeX with build-in algebraic 
          functions; http://www.win.tue.nl/win/cs/wp/mathspad/ )


5. 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.

5.1. Programming and development:

* GNU Pascal.
* UPS - the X-based debugger.  Probably not worth building until we've
  switched to ELF. (There are Linux-specific patches around.)
* DDD - the Data Display Debugger ( http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd )
* checker
* vgrind (formats source code for printing)
* Scheme->C
* SCM - Scheme interpreter which will soon be the basis of
  the GNU extension language.
* SLIB.
* CLISP - Common Lisp interpreter
* ECoLisp - a Common Lisp compiler that produces faster code but
   isn't as widely used as GCL
* CLiCC - Common Lisp compiler that generates stand-alone apps
   (rather large ones, though)
* GNAT (GNU Ada Translator)


5.2. Mail software:

* BBDB (for Emacs: Big Brother Data Base, a rolodex with hooks into
  VM, GNUS, and RMAIL)
* tkmail
* mailtool


5.3. USENET news software:

* nn.
* C News (as an alternative to INN) including NOV and NNTP.
* strn.


5.4. Math packages:

* SC (the spreadsheet). (oleo is already available)
* GNU calc (see the Emacs list ...).
* SNNS Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator (ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
* SciLab
* Yorick
* MuPAD (computer algebra tool from University of Paderborn, Germany
        http://gauss-mb.uni-paderborn.de/~cube/ , please look at the 
        license conditions.)
* calctool
* felt 

5.5. Graphics:

* SISCAD, a CADD package.
  ftp://hrz-ws26.hrz.uni-kassel.de/pub/machines/LINUX/misc/siscad
* Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system, Dore'.
* GIMP (The General Image Manipulation Program)
  http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~gimp

5.6. Misc Tools:

* quota
* zoo/unzoo (packer)
* binhex

5.7. Editors:

(none)


5.8. Games:

* nethack
* rocks and diamonds
* xgalaga (space-invaders style game)
* abuse
* xibc (backgammon)
* xevil
* xjewel


5.9. X11:

* Andrew
* ImageMagick (image viewer) (This package would belong into the
  non-free section if it provides the creation of GIF files.)
* XView (at least a library package--the full XView distribution, 
  with window manager, etc. would also be nice, but not as important)
* plan (calender with many functions)
* grok (database with many functions)
* tkps (tk-based "top")
* xmem
* xidle


5.10. Communication

* BBS (Bulletin Board System) Software
* hylafax (http://www.vix.com/hylafax)
  a fax server with add-ons for alphanumeric paging


5.11 TeX

* tmview (svgalib DVI viewer)
  Kpathsea support should be added and the original author is already 
  aware of this. Contact him first.


5.12 Networking

* other www servers (Spinner ( http://spinner.infovav.se/ ),
  WN ( http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/docs/overview.html) )
* tkined / scotty (tk-based network analysis)
* xinetd (replacement for inetd with many enhancements)
* ftptool (This requires the not-yet-available XView libraries.)


5.13 System Tools

* backup software (kbackup, taper, nbackup)
  Please note that there are plans for a Debian-specific backup tool
  ( http://www.access.digex.net/~dhs/debian/debian.html ).
* apsfilter (a printing filter) 
  (ftp://ftp-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/pkg/APSfilter )
  (It is quite difficult to write a universal and easy configuration 
  mechanism for these printing filters.)
* IBCS2 emulator


5.14 Text utilities

* HTML editors (tkHTML, asWedit, auc-html.el)
* mpage (genscript is already available)


6. Programs that someone should write

This section contains suggestions/wishes for programs. There is no
known implementation of such a program for Linux.

* 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.


7. Beyond packages

This section lists some areas of future development of Debian that
cannot be assigned to specific packages.

Please note that you may need to know a lot about the specific topic
and the current Debian architecture, so this probably shouldn't be
your first Debian related contribution.

* internationalization / localization
* documentation and translations
* Debian GNU/Linux for other platforms (m68k, alpha, sparc)
* shadow passwords ( ftp://ftp.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/pub/linux/shadow/ )
  (Previous versions didn't have a free-enough license, so Debian cannot use
  these.)


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