Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Philippe Troin, phil@fifi.org
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.53 1997/08/11 17:26:39 phil Exp $
1. General Questions
1.1. Before reading this document
You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
<http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/>.
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. 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>
1.4. 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.
Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're
talking about, it makes it easier for me to sort out all "Re: Work-
Needing and Prospective Packages" emails I get. A suggested subject
line reads "WNPP: removing foopackage" or "WNPP: working on
barpackage". Thanks.
2. Changes
2.1. Since version 1.51 1997/08/04
o Tripwire taken over by Michael Meskes <mailto:meskes@topsystem.de>.
o Changed Michael Meskes address.
o Fixed a typo in smalleiffel.
o Added isdnutils to "packages needing a new maintainer".
o Removed vlock and genromfs, taken over by Juan Cespedes
<mailto:cespedes@etsit.upm.es>.
o Added uae, hpcdtoppm, and xpcd as packages under development.
o Added rc to orphans.
o Added pstoedit, wm2, gnuplot, gs, gs-aladdin, gsfonts, screen,
transfig, and xfig to "packages needing a new maintainer".
o Added libkde0, libkde0-dev, and kdeapps as orphans.
o Removed dialog, taken by Bill Mitchell
<mailto:mitchell@mozcom.com>.
o Removed opustex from work-under-progress.
o Removed freetype, taken over by Anthony Fok
<mailto:foka@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>.
o Added a blurb about email subjects.
o Es taken over by James Troup.
o Dip and sliplogin tken by Fabrizio Polacco
<mailto:fpolacco@icenet.fi>.
o Added fidogate in "packages someone is working on".
o Maelstrom and hextype taken by Richard Braakman
<mailto:dark@xs4all.nl>.
2.2. Since version 1.50 1997/07/28
o Removed the notes section.
o Removed x48 from "packages someone is working on".
o Added Robert Leslie rob@mars.org packages to the orphaned section.
o Added AX25 software and multicast (mbone) to needed section.
o Added smalleiffel to "packages someone is working on".
o Removed erreously listed packages mgetty and ircd (attributed to
Ben Gertzfield). Mgetty has been taken over by someone, and ircd
actually belongs to Christopher Lameter.
o Added HTML version of Matt Welsh's "Installation & Getting
Started" in "packages someone is working on".
o Added xbat to "packages someone is working on".
o Removed scion sniffit radiusdmerit-lass phpfi xssi from the
"packages someone is working on" section and added flin and deliver
to the "packages needing a new maintainer" section.
o Added agrep to the needed packages section.
o Ipx and ncpfs taken over and removed.
o Workman was wrongly listed as orphaned, removed.
o Added xzx in "packages someone is working on".
o Moved clisp form needed packages to "packages someone is working
on".
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 speak-freely (non-US developper)
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
Dominik Kubla dominik@debian.org :
o arpd
o cflow
o csh
o ptx
o spell
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 nas
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 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
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
Robert Leslie rob@mars.org :
o deliver
o figfonts
o figlet
o hfsutils
o motifnls
o sox
Joey Hess joey@kite.ml.org :
o libkde0
o libkde0-dev
o kdeapps
Others:
o rc
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
Joe Kirby kirby@utk.edu :
o lxtools
Christoph Lameter clameter@waterf.org :
o ncsa
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 omir
o komirr
o worklog
o mserver
o ircd
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@topsystem.de :
o html2latex
o icmake
o ntfs
o xftp
Joost Witteveen joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl :
o bin86
o libpaper
o axe
o pixmap
o pstoedit
o wm2
o gnuplot
o gs
o gs-aladdin
o gsfonts
o screen
o transfig
o xfig
Johnie Ingram johnie@netgod.net :
o flin
o deliver
Andreas Jellinghaus aj@dungeon.inka.de :
o isdnutils
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
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 irving@pobox.com :
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 dirson@univ-mlv.fr :
o perl5 programming (documentation)
o Using SGML - basic concepts (documentation)
o Understanding and writing SGML DTDs (documentation)
Hamish Moffatt moffatt@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU :
o atp (text to postscript converter)
o cam (ncurses based mixer for sound cards)
o mars_nwe <ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs> (Netware server )
Mark Mickan mmickan@ozemail.com.au :
o hylafax
Marco Budde Marco.Budde@hqsys.antar.com :
o HTML version of Matt Welsh's "Installation & Getting Started"
o fidogate
Drake Diedrich dld@empire.anu.edu.au :
o PVW
o DQS
Charles Briscoe-Smith cpb4@ukc.ac.uk :
o UPS - the X-based debugger. (There are Linux-specific patches
around.)
o GSpreview
Peter Tonoli anarchie@brimstone.suburbia.net :
o terroid
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk :
o smalleiffel
Joost Kooij joost@kooij.com :
o xbat
Juan Cespedes cespedes@etsit.upm.es :
o xzx
Will Lowe lowe@mail.eecis.udel.edu :
o clisp
Stephan Suerken suerken@fh-worms.de :
o uae
o hpcdtoppm
o xpcd
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 Scheme->C
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 ACE <http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html> (a free C++
library)
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 AX25 software
o multicast (MBONE)
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/>
o agrep <ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/agrep>
6.8. Misc
o Artificial Life Programs ( http://alife.santafe.edu )
o Acmaint <ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/ACMAINT/> (User
administration tool)
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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