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 1.22 1996/09/12 22:26:04 sr1 Exp sr1 $
1. General Questions
1.1. What is Debian GNU/Linux
Please read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ (
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/FAQ/debian-faq.html ).
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 needing a new maintainer
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 need a new
maintainer, send me an e-mail.
If you would like to maintain one of the packages listed here, send me
an e-mail.
Andrew D. Fernandes adfernan@cnd.mcgill.ca :
o acs
DJ Gregor dgregor@gregor.com :
o biff
o cdtool
o unclutter
o workbone
o xwpe
Richard Kettlewell richard@greenend.org.uk :
o aout-svgalib
o svgalib1
o svgalib1-bin
o svgalib1-dev
Christian Linhart chris@cosy.sbg.ac.at :
o statserial
o tgif
o xarchie
Michael Meskes meskes@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE :
o adjtimex
o fdutils
o hkgerman
o html2latex
o lyx
o metamail
o modules
o xautolock
Dale Miller dale@csd.uwo.ca :
o lclint
o mailx
Ian Murdock imurdock@debian.org :
o acm
o aout-librl (this package might be unnecessary now)
o pmake
Jim Robinson jimr@simons-rock.edu :
o pari
Sven Rudolph sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de :
o seyon
Peter Tobias tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de :
o wu-ftpd
3. 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 FreeLIP - large integer package
o GroupKit - development library for building realtime groupware apps
o LEE - Latent Energy Environments artificial life simulator
o rsaref - installer scripts for the RSAREF crypto library
o swarm - Objective-C based artificial life research tool
o premail - e-mail privacy package
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
Hakan Ardo hakan@munin.ub2.lu.se :
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 xbomb
Alan Bain afrb2@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk :
o gpc (GNU Pascal)
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)
Christian Hudon chrish@debian.org :
o qmail
Tim Cutts tim@scalopus.bio.cam.ac.uk :
o exim (a mail transfer agent,
ftp://cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/exim)
Christian Schwarz schwarz@monet.m.isar.de :
o isdnutils (utility programs necessary for Isdn4Linux)
o metapost (postscript generating lanuage similar to metafont)
o wavplay (WAV-Player for Linux)
o xblast (multiplayer X11 game)
Joey Hess joey@kite.preferred.com :
o tracker
Dermot Bradley bradley@mourne.gpl.net :
o Merit Radius
o Hylafax
o Umich LDAP
o Nocol (network admin/monitoring)
4. 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.
4.1. 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 )
o CLX - Common Lisp Xlib implementation
o PCL - Portable Common Loops for GCL
4.2. USENET news software:
o strn.
4.3. 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 )
o Cross-compilation environments for alpha, m68k, SPARC
4.4. Graphics:
o Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system,
Dore'.
4.5. Misc Tools:
o binhex
4.6. Editors:
o NEdit ( http://fnpspa.fnal.gov/nirvana/nedit.html , requires Motif)
o jed (small emacs-like)
4.7. Games:
o rocks and diamonds
o xgalaga (space-invaders style game)
o xibc (backgammon)
o xevil
o xgammon
4.8. X11:
o Andrew
o plan (calender with many functions)
o grok (database with many functions)
o xidle
o xmcd (ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmcd/xmcd-2.0.README)
o olvwm
4.9. Communication
o BBS (Bulletin Board System) Software
4.10. TeX
o tmview (svgalib DVI viewer) Kpathsea support should be added and
the original author is already aware of this. Contact him first.
4.11. 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
4.12. System Tools
o IBCS2 emulator
4.13. Text utilities
o HTML editors (tkHTML, asWedit, auc-html.el)
o mpage (GNU enscript is already available)
o texi2html
5. 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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