FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Sven Rudolph, sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.21 1996/08/26 20:29:54 sr1 Exp sr1 $
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http://www.debian.org/FAQ/ (This copy might be out of date). 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. 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.
2. Packages 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.
previously maintained by Ian Murdock imurdock@debian.org :
o acm
o aout-librl (this package might be unnecessary now)
o pmake
previously maintained by DJ Gregor dgregor@gregor.com :
o biff
o cdtool
o unclutter
o workbone
o xwpe
others :
o elm
o ifrench, igerman
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.
currently maintained by Sven Rudolph sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de :
o seyon
currently maintained by Christian Linhart chris@cosy.sbg.ac.at :
o statserial
o tgif
o xarchie
currently maintained by Jim Robinson jimr@simons-rock.edu :
o pari
currently maintained by Michael Meskes meskes@Informatik.RWTH-
Aachen.DE :
o xsysinfo
o xcolors
o xautolock
currently maintained by Richard Kettlewell richard@greenend.org.uk :
o aout-svgalib
o svgalib1
o svgalib1-bin
o svgalib1-dev
currently maintained by Andrew D. Fernandes adfernan@cnd.mcgill.ca :
o acs
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 :
o dome (http://www.netaxs.com/ cjf/jpegs.html)
o and probably : xli, Tix, povray
krs@caos.aamu.edu (Karl R. Sackett) :
o CLX - Common Lisp Xlib implementation
o PCL - Portable Common Loops for GCL
Richard Kaszeta kaszeta@me.umn.edu :
o xmotd
Mike Wilson cmwilson@uncc.edu :
o mule
Sven Rudolph sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de :
o xbill
o LPRng
"behan (b.) webster" behanw@bnr.ca
o sxpc (Simple Xwindows Protocol Compresser)
o qfax (multi-user e-mail extension to efax).
wendal@onyx.southwind.net:
o tkHTML
Darren torin@daft.com :
o mew, giftool
Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca :
o BBDB (for Emacs: Big Brother Data Base, a rolodex with hooks into
VM, GNUS, and RMAIL)
Michael Alan Dorman mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu :
o glimpsehttpd
Warwick Harvey warwick@cs.mu.OZ.AU :
o mercury (a purely declarative logic programming language with
strong modes, strong types, and strong determinism)
Patrick.Weemeeuw@kulnet.KULeuven.ac.be :
o PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) (
http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/osf_dce/RFC/rfc86.0.txt )
marcus@sysc.pdx.edu :
o CLISP
David H. Silber dhs@firefly.com :
o dbackup - A Debian-specific backup program.
o lockstep - A program to keep various directory trees in sync.
o uucpconfig - A configuration program which will become part of my
uucp package.
o latex2html
Karl R. Sackett krs@caos.aamu.edu :
o libXg - UTF-2 fonts for Sam and 9term
o faces - visual list monitor
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
Michael Shields shields@crosslink.net :
o amanda, the University of Maryland's free network backup system.
o nntplink
Bdale Garbee bdale@gag.com :
o spice (circuit simulation package)
o gforth
Billy Chow billy.chow@eng.ox.ac.uk :
o koules
o xbomb
Alan Bain afrb2@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk :
o gpc (GNU Pascal)
Ed Petron epetron@leba.net :
o tkps (tk-based "top")
Christophe Le Bars clebars@teaser.fr :
o Caml (A small, portable implementation of the ML language.)
o Objective Caml: Caml dialect extended with a complete class-based
object system
o MMM: a WWW browser implemented in Caml
Yves Arrouye arrouye@marin.fdn.fr> :
o ppd-gs (a set of PPD files for my Ghostscript drivers)
o btoa
Erick Branderhorst branderh@debian.org :
o awk2c
Jon Rabone 93jkr@eng.cam.ac.uk :
o SISCAD
Christian Lynbech lynbech@daimi.aau.dk :
o ilisp (emacs interface to a number of lisp systems)
o calc (emacs calculator package)
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)
Lee Olds olds@eskimo.com :
o Qt
Christian Hudon chrish@debian.org :
o qmail
Christoph Lameter clameter@fuller.edu :
o smartlist
Tim Cutts tim@scalopus.bio.cam.ac.uk :
o exim (a mail transfer agent,
ftp://cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/exim)
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:
o UPS - the X-based debugger. Probably not worth building until
we've switched to ELF. (There are Linux-specific patches around.)
o checker
o Scheme->C
o SCM - Scheme interpreter which will soon be the basis of the GNU
extension language.
o SLIB.
o CLISP - Common Lisp interpreter
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 Modula-3 (
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/srcm3.html )
5.2. USENET news software:
o strn.
5.3. Math packages:
o SC (the spreadsheet). (oleo is already available)
o SciLab
o Yorick
o MuPAD (computer algebra tool from University of Paderborn, Germany
http://gauss-mb.uni-paderborn.de/ cube/ , please look at the
license conditions.)
o calctool
o felt
o LAPACK and BLAS (numerical libraries,
http://nils.wustl.edu/schiotz/lapack-linux.html )
5.4. Graphics:
o Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system,
Dore'.
5.5. Misc Tools:
o binhex
5.6. Editors:
o NEdit ( http://fnpspa.fnal.gov/nirvana/nedit.html , requires Motif)
o jed (small emacs-like)
5.7. Games:
o rocks and diamonds
o xgalaga (space-invaders style game)
o xibc (backgammon)
o xevil
o xjewel
o xgammon
5.8. X11:
o Andrew
o plan (calender with many functions)
o grok (database with many functions)
o xmem
o xidle
o xmcd (ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmcd/xmcd-2.0.README)
o olvwm
5.9. Communication
o BBS (Bulletin Board System) Software
o hylafax (http://www.vix.com/hylafax) a fax server with add-ons for
alphanumeric paging
5.10. TeX
o tmview (svgalib DVI viewer) Kpathsea support should be added and
the original author is already aware of this. Contact him first.
5.11. Networking
o other www servers (Spinner ( http://spinner.infovav.se/ ), WN (
http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/docs/overview.html) )
o xinetd (replacement for inetd with many enhancements)
o ftptool
5.12. System Tools
o IBCS2 emulator
5.13. Text utilities
o HTML editors (tkHTML, asWedit, auc-html.el)
o mpage (GNU enscript is already available)
o texi2html
6. 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.
--
Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/
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