FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
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- From: Sven Rudolph <sr1@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
- Date: 18 Nov 1996 00:12:28 +0100
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Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Sven Rudolph, sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.29 1996/11/17 23:08:48 sr1 Exp sr1 $
1. General Questions
1.1. Before reading this document
You should have 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
Please inform me via e-mail:
o when you find that you need to discontinue maintaining a package
o when you believe that the following list is incomplete
o when you would like to maintain one of the packages listed here.
David Engel david@ods.com :
o binutils
o libc5, libc6 (potentially a lot of work)
o libc4, aout-binutils, aout-gcc (stone-age compatibility packages)
Andrew D. Fernandes adfernan@cnd.mcgill.ca :
o acs
DJ Gregor dgregor@gregor.com :
o cdtool
o xwpe
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 metamail
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 auctex
o netpbm
o xless
o xpaste
Sven Rudolph sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de :
o seyon
Martin Schulze joey@infodrom.north.de :
o sokoban
Andrew Howell andrew@it.com.au :
o xtron
Dominik Kubla Dominik.Kubla@Uni-Mainz.DE :
o amd
o kbd
o vlock
o ssh (ITAR restricted, needs US maintainer)
Doug Geiger runexe@ntplx.net :
o abuse
o apsfilter
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
krs@caos.aamu.edu (Karl R. Sackett) :
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 GNU Smalltalk
o mimedecode: decodes transfer encoded text type mime messages.
o rel: determines relevance of text documents to a set of keywords.
o utf-mailx: scripts to add UTF support to mailx.
Mike Wilson cmwilson@uncc.edu :
o mule
Sven Rudolph sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de :
o xbill
Behan Webster behanw@verisim.com
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 giftool
o canna
o lx-gdb
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)
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
o mutt: a new mailreader
(ftp.infodrom.north.de:/pub/people/joey/debian/beta)
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)
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 MMM: a WWW browser implemented in Caml
o doc-debian-fr
Yves Arrouye arrouye@marin.fdn.fr> :
o btoa
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 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 (waiting for license change)
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 metapost (postscript generating language similar to metafont)
o penguin (a module/framework for implementing safely distributable
perl code (applets, agents, etc.))
o libio-perl (Perl5 IO module)
o libsafe-perl (Perl5 Safe module)
o TeX packages
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)
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 xmcd (ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmcd/xmcd-2.0.README)
o NIST's POSIX validation suite
Volker Ossenkopf ossk@astro.uni-jena.de :
o workman
Yoshiaki Yanagihara yosiaki@bsd2.kbnes.nec.co.jp :
o japanese packages (kterm, canna, Japanese Extended less)
Ian Main imain@vcc.bc.ca :
o tkgoodstuff
Lars Esbjerg Hoeg lhoeg@imada.ou.dk :
o dotfile-gen
Boris D. Beletsky borik@isracom.co.il :
o ircd-dalnet (dalnet irc daemon)
Christian Leutloff leutloff@sundancer.tng.oche.de :
o newtl (accessing Apple Newton Messagepad)
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
Stephen Pitts pitts2@memphisonline.com :
o addressbook
o Adobe Acrobat viewer
o xmailbox
o plan
Brian C. White bcwhite@verisim.com :
o genpower, an UPS monitoring package
Steve Dunham dunham@cl-next4.cl.msu.edu :
o xtar
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 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/srcm3.html )
(building this requires up to 200MB hard disk space!)
4.2. USENET news software:
o strn.
4.3. Math packages:
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 felt
o LAPACK and BLAS (numerical libraries,
http://nils.wustl.edu/schiotz/lapack-linux.html )
4.4. Graphics:
o Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system,
Dore'.
4.5. Games:
o rocks and diamonds
o xibc (backgammon)
o xevil
o xgammon
4.6. X11:
o Andrew
o grok (database with many functions)
o xidle
o olvwm
o xtoolplaces
o installation wrapper for Starwriter (Starwriter requires Motif)
4.7. Communication
o BBS (Bulletin Board System) Software
4.8. TeX
o tmview (svgalib DVI viewer) Kpathsea support should be added and
the original author is already aware of this. Contact him first.
4.9. Networking
o other www servers (Spinner ( http://spinner.infovav.se/ ))
o ftptool
4.10. Text utilities
o HTML editors (tkHTML, auc-html.el)
o Virtual Paper (
http://www.research.digital.com:80/SRC/virtualpaper/ )
o wdiff (in the GNU archives)
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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