Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Philippe Troin, phil@fifi.org
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.48 1997/07/14 05:59:38 phil Exp $
1. Note
I've taken over the maintenance of the "Work-Needing and Prospective
Packages for Debian GNU/Linux" from Sven Rudolph starting version 1.44
of this document. I've incorporated a lot of changes since. Please
notify me of any errors.
2. General Questions
2.1. Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
<http://www.debian.org/FAQ/>.
2.2. 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.
2.3. Getting newer versions of this document
Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP:
o <http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html>
o <ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-
packages.txt>
2.4. Feedback
Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Philippe
Troin phil@fifi.org. Please mention to which version of this document
your comments refer.
3. Orphaned packages
(An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.)
Please inform me via e-mail:
o when you find that you need to orphan a package
o when you believe that the following list is incomplete
o when you would like to maintain one of these packages.
Orn E. Hansen :
o dialdcost
o hextype
o speak-freely
o xega
o xmailtool
o xspread
Yves Arrouye Yves.Arrouye@marin.fdn.fr :
o compress-package
o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs
o psptools
llucius llucius@millcomm.com :
o dialog
Dominik Kubla dominik@debian.org :
o arpd
o cflow
o csh
o lsof
o open
o ptx
o spell
o vlock
Brian C. White bcwhite@verisim.com :
o zyxel
Raul D. Miller moth@firefly.com :
o j1 (in old source format)
o sam (in old source format)
o ucbmpeg (in old source format)
o ucbmpegplay (in old source format)
Michael Nonweiler mrn20@cam.ac.uk :
o ipx
o nas
o ncpfs
Jim Robinson jimr@simons-rock.edu :
o mh-papers
o term
o witalian
o pari, paridoc
o wnorwegian
Joost Witteveen joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl :
o xosview (probably to be abandonned)
Doug Geiger runexe@ntplx.net :
o apsfilter
Erick Branderhorst branderh@debian.IAEhv.nl :
o elisp-manual
o emacs-lisp-intro
o giftrans
o idutch
o mathpad
o mfbasfnt
o wdutch
o wenglish
Christian Linhart chris@cosy.sbg.ac.at :
o statserial
o xarchie
o bibindex
J.A.vanderMost jvdmost@wi.leidenuniv.nl :
o dmalloc
Shaya Potter spotter@CapAccess.org :
o opie
Stuart Lamble lamble@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au :
o fsp
Patrick Weemeeuw atrick@netvision.be :
o tripwire
Larry 'Daffy' Daffner zzie@airmail.net :
o xscreensaver
Guy R. Thomas gthomas@native-ed.bc.ca :
o dld (do we still need this ?)
Patrick J Edwards edwards@cambridgnet.sk.ca :
o mailpgp
Dermot Bradley bradley@muck.gpl.net :
o radiusd-merit
Fabien Ninoles ninf01@gel.usherb.ca :
o vrweb
Volker Ossenkopf ossk@sol.astro.uni.jena.de :
o workman
Others:
o xcompat (should we drop it ?)
o libc4 (a.out compatibility)
4. Packages needing a new maintainer
Please inform me via e-mail:
o when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package
Please inform the mainatiner of the package:
o when you would like to maintain one of the packages.
Sven Rudolph sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de :
o chimera (should be upgraded to v1.70)
o enscript
o seyon
o lpr
o xonix
o xpat2
o xsok
Martin Schulze joey@infodrom.north.de :
o xarclock
o lha
o dosfstools
o sendfile
Joe Kirby kirby@utk.edu :
o lxtools
Christoph Lameter clameter@waterf.org :
o ncsa
o genromfs
o bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X)
o berolist
o adbbs (needs a better setup of pre-customized files)
o gpc
o libgpc2
o gpc-doc
o verse
o freefont
o fdos
o sharefont
o newsx
o syslinux
o pash
o zmailer
o isite
o knfs
o poppassd
o transproxy
o loadlin
o freetype
o omir
o komirr
o worklog
o mserver
Karl Ferguson karl@tower.net.au :
o sysutils
Christian Schwarz schwarz@monet.m.isar.de :
o dvi2tty
o hyperlatex
o info2www
o latex2rtf
o mysql
Vincent Renardias vincent@waw.com :
o ftplib
o lde
o libdnd1
o libdnd1-dev
o macutils
o mcvert
o offix-clipboard
o offix-editor
o offix-execute
o offix-files
o offix-trash
o xabacus
o xfishtank
o xgalaga
o xmcpustate
o xodo
Michael Meskes meskes@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE :
o html2latex
o icmake
o ntfs
o xftp
Joost Witteveen joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl :
o bin86
o libpaper
o axe
o es
o pixmap
5. 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.
krs@caos.aamu.edu (Karl R. Sackett) :
o swarm - Objective-C based artificial life research tool
o GNU Smalltalk
o utf-mailx: scripts to add UTF support to mailx.
o SATAN - net security scanner
o gabriel - detects SATAN scans
o drone - automatically runs batch jobs of simultion programs.
o empire - Wolfpack Empire war simulation
o togl - a Tk widget for OpenGL rendering
o nanocad - a freeware CAD system for nanotechnology
o WISE - WWW-based project management and metrics system
Darren torin@daft.com :
o giftool
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 yodl
o w3-msql (W3 frontend for mSQL)
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)
Dermot Bradley bradley@debian.org :
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 NIST's POSIX validation suite
Yoshiaki Yanagihara yosiaki@bsd2.kbnes.nec.co.jp :
o japanese packages (mule, kon, kterm, canna, Japanese Extended less)
Boris D. Beletsky borik@isracom.co.il :
o MIT scheme
o Freedom Desktop <ftp://fsw.com/pub/fdlite/FDlite1.32.tar.gz>
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
Kai Henningsen kai@khms.westfalen.de :
o sather
Lukas Nellen lukas@teorica0.ifisicacu.unam.mx :
o thttpd
Johnie Ingram johnie@netgod.tln.lib.mi.us :
o scion
o sniffit
o radiusd-merit-las
o phpfi
o xssi
Loic Prylli lprylli@graville.fdn.fr :
o jove
John Goerzen jgoerzen@complete.org :
o WorldVU-Atlantis BBS package
o midiplay (MIDI player)
Tristan McCann trismcc@nh.ultranet.com :
o Linux phone
Martin Alonso Soto Jacome masoto@uniandes.edu.co :
o jazz midi sequencer <http://rokke.grm.hia.no/per/jazz.html>
Christian Meder christian.meder@utoronto.ca :
o MuPAD
Andy Mortimer andy.mortimer@poboxes.com :
o TinyMUSH
Larry Gilbert larry@rainier.net :
o hypernews
o xmorph
Lalo Martins lalo@webcom.com :
o djgpp
o enlightenment
o enlighthemes
o imlib
o rxvt-imlib
o eterm
Luis Francisco Gonzalez luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk :
o xgammon
Yann Dirson dwitch@bylbo.debian.novare.net :
o perl5 programming (documentation)
o Using SGML - basic concepts (documentation)
o Understanding and writing SGML DTDs (documentation)
Joel Rosdahl joel@rosdahl.ml.org :
o xbuffy
Hamish Moffatt moffatt@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU :
o atp (text to postscript converter)
o cam (ncurses based mixer for sound cards)
Anthony Fok foka@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca :
o MusiXTeX
o OpusTeX
Adrian Bridgett adrian.bridgett@zetnet.co.uk :
o xsoldier
Mark Mickan mmickan@ozemail.com.au :
o hylafax
Marco Budde Marco.Budde@hqsys.antar.com :
o x48
6. 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.
6.1. Programming and development:
o UPS - the X-based debugger. (There are Linux-specific patches
around.)
o Scheme->C
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/home.html>
(building this requires up to 200MB hard disk space!)
o omniORB <http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html>
6.2. USENET news software:
o strn.
6.3. Graphics:
o Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system,
Dore'.
6.4. Games:
o rocks and diamonds
6.5. X11:
o Andrew
o grok (database with many functions)
o xidle
o linux explorer (a file manager a la windows explorer) Linux
Explorer <http://jungfrau.ptf.hro.nl/explorer>
6.6. Networking/Communication
o Roxen <http://www.roxen.com/> (WWW server)
o ftptool
o Speakerphone/Answering Machine for USR and Rockwell Modems
<http://www.mindspring.com/~bnaylor/spk/>
o mars_nwe <ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs> (Netware server )
6.7. Text utilities
o HTML editors (tkHTML, auc-html.el)
o Virtual Paper
<http://www.research.digital.com:80/SRC/virtualpaper/>
o JADE <http://www.jclark.com/jade/>
6.8. Misc
o Artificial Life Programs ( http://alife.santafe.edu )
7. 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.
o A Debian administration tool. If possible with text frontend, web
frontend and x11 frontend.
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