FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian Linux
Sven Rudolph, sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de
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Table of Contents:
1. General Questions
1.1. What is Debian Linux
1.2. Purpose of this document
1.3. What do I need to know in order to become a package maintainer
?
1.4. Feedback
2. Packages that have no current maintainer
3. Packages that the maintainer wants to give away
4. Packages that someone is working on
5. Programs that aren't available yet in Debian
5.1. Programming and development:
5.2. Mail software:
5.3. USENET news software:
5.4. Math packages:
5.5. Graphics:
5.6. Misc Tools:
5.7. Editors:
5.8. Games:
5.9. X11:
5.10. Communication
5.11. TeX
5.12. Networking
5.13. System Tools
5.14. Text utilities
6. Programs that someone should write
7. Beyond packages
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1. General Questions
1.1. What is Debian Linux
Please read the Debian Linux FAQ. The Debian 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 Linux FAQ.
1.3. What do I need to know in order to become a package maintainer ?
Please read the documents at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-
developer/ .
The packaging guidelines are included in the dpkg-1.1.0 package.
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.
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 elisp-manual
o glibcdoc
o metamail
o pmake
previously maintained by Ian Jackson ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk :
o trn
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 David Engel david@ods.com :
o tclX
currently maintained by Christian Linhart chris@cosy.sbg.ac.at :
o statserial
o tgif
o xarchie
currently maintained by Ian Jackson ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk :
o m4
o cron
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
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
Dale Miller dale@csd.uwo.ca :
o lclint (ftp://larch.lcs.mit.edu/pub/Larch/lclint/ )
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 NCSA Mosaic (waiting for 2.7)
"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 netpbm, mew, giftool
"Prud'homme Christophe" prudhomm@lions.asci.fr :
o Xemacs
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 wily - work-alike of Acme programming environment for Plan9
o 9term - terminal emulator similar to 8-1/2 windows
o libXg - UTF-2 fonts for Sam and 9term
o exmh - X user interface for MH mail
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
o dos2unix unix2dos
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
Mike Coleman coleman@chez-gnu.cstp.umkc.edu :
o nn (newsreader)
o jdk (Java development kit, no source available)
Yves Arrouye arrouye@marin.fdn.fr> :
o gs-ppd (a set of PPD files for my Ghostscript drivers)
o adobe-ppd Adobe-supplied PPD files (found on ftp.adobe.com)
o psptools (tools for PS printers making advantage of PPD files)
o compress-package (a package for packaging compress)
o btoa
Erick Branderhorst branderh@debian.org :
o awk2c
Emilio Lopes ecl@fnpc21.if.usp.br :
o ratfor77
Jon Rabone 93jkr@eng.cam.ac.uk :
o SISCAD
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 GNU Pascal.
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 GNAT (GNU Ada Translator)
o Postgres95
5.2. Mail software:
o mailtool
5.3. USENET news software:
o strn.
5.4. Math packages:
o SC (the spreadsheet). (oleo is already available)
o GNU calc (see the Emacs list ...).
o SNNS Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator (ftp.informatik.uni-
stuttgart.de)
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 )
5.5. Graphics:
o Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system,
Dore'.
5.6. Misc Tools:
o zoo/unzoo (packer)
o binhex
5.7. Editors:
o NEdit ( http://fnpspa.fnal.gov/nirvana/nedit.html , requires Motif)
o jed (small emacs-like)
5.8. Games:
o rocks and diamonds
o xgalaga (space-invaders style game)
o xibc (backgammon)
o xevil
o xjewel
5.9. X11:
o Andrew
o ImageMagick (image viewer) (This package would belong into the non-
free section if it provides the creation of GIF files.)
o XView (at least a library package--the full XView distribution,
with window manager, etc. would also be nice, but not as important)
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)
5.10. Communication
o BBS (Bulletin Board System) Software
o hylafax (http://www.vix.com/hylafax) a fax server with add-ons for
alphanumeric paging
5.11. TeX
o tmview (svgalib DVI viewer) Kpathsea support should be added and
the original author is already aware of this. Contact him first.
5.12. 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 (This requires the not-yet-available XView libraries.)
5.13. System Tools
o IBCS2 emulator
5.14. Text utilities
o HTML editors (tkHTML, asWedit, auc-html.el)
o mpage (genscript 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.
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.
o internationalization / localization
o documentation and translations
o Debian Linux for other platforms (m68k, alpha, sparc)
o shadow passwords ( ftp://ftp.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/pub/linux/shadow/ )
--
Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/
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