Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
                                       
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   $Id: prospective-packages.html,v 1.10 1998/04/14 23:37:33 johnie Exp $
   
   
   This document is intended to identify areas that need your
   contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite
   often, so it supplements the regular Debian Developer documentation:
   [1]http://www.debian.org/developers_corner.html. This document
   provides the current list of packages which are either:
   
     * orphaned,
     * withdrawn from the unstable distribution,
     * maintained but its developer would like to find a new person,
     * currently being worked on to include in the distribution, and
     * good ideas -- they would be nice to have, but no one is yet
       working on them.
       
   New versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP:
   
     * [2]http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html
     * [3]ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-p
       ackages.txt
     * [4]ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-p
       ackages.html
       
   Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to the WNPP
   maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Please mention 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 to sort out all "Re:
   Work-Needing and Prospective Packages" emails. A suggested subject
   line reads "WNPP: removing foopackage" or "WNPP: working on
   barpackage". Thanks.
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                                Recent Changes
                                       
Since version 1998/04/07

   The pdftex program is now uploaded (as part of tetex).
   
   Packages needing a new maintainer
     * The xpdf package, offered by Dirk Eddelbuettel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
       needs a free-world maintainer so it can support encrypted PDF
       files.
     * The omniORB package is offered by Robert Resendes
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
       
   Packages adopted
     * The dosfstools package is adopted by Roman Hodek
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * The ntfs package is adopted by Damjan Marion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
       
   Packages being created
     * VAT (the LBNL audio tool), the xmmix package, the xrn newsreader,
       the f77reorder , and nt (a mbone shared text editor) are being
       packaged by Alex Romosan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * Nessus is being packaged by Nils Lohner
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * The jstation suite for amateur radio ground stations is being
       packaged by Bdale Garbee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * The sfio package is being created by Dennis Clark
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * Chamelion, a program that uses GTK and imlib to draw into the root
       window, is being packaged by Shaleh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * The tcputils pakcage is being created by Bjoern Brenander
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * Packages for xfont3d and xfpovray are being created by Matt
       Pavlovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * The CODA distributed filesystem tools are being packaged by Anders
       Hammarquist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
       
   Packages someone could package for Debian 2.1
     * BeroFTPD 1.0.1, a wu-ftpd derived ftp server program.
     * The Emacs module for perl, perlmacs.
       
   
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                               Orphaned packages
                                       
   An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.
   Please inform the WNPP maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) via e-mail:
   
     * when you find that you need to orphan a package,
     * when you believe that the following list is incomplete, or
     * when you would like to maintain one of these packages.
       
   To correct the developer recorded for a package, inform the override
   file maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
   
   The following packages are orphaned:
   
   By the Debian QA Group (debian-qa@lists.debian.org):
   
     * 9wm -- An emulation of the Plan 9 window manager 8-1/2
     * bibindex -- fast lookup in BibTeX bibliography data bases
     * latex2rtf -- LaTeX text to RTF format translator
     * libtclobjc -- development library
     * mcvert -- Tool to deal with specially encoded Macintosh files
       (non-free)
     * objpak -- An Objective-C collection class library
     * pari -- A package for number theorists (non-free)
     * paridoc -- The documentation and examples for the PARI system
       (non-free)
     * rc -- An implementation of the AT&T Plan 9 shell.
     * sam -- A plan9 derived text editor
     * xabacus -- Implementation of the classic Chinese abacus
     * xbattle -- A concurrent multi-player battle strategy game
     * xmcpustate -- Displays CPU/Swap/Memory/Network load
       
   By Mike Coleman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * nn -- Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
       Possibly better left for dead: it is not maintained upstream, and
       gnus and trn have similar interfaces.
       
   By Michael Meskes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * icmake -- Intelligent C-like MAKEr, or the ICce MAKE utility
     * xftp -- Athena X interface to ftp
       
   By Herbert Xu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * netpbm -- graphics conversion tools
       
   By Bdale Garbee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * ytalk -- Enhanced talk program with X support
       
   By Christoph Lameter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * wdb -- web to database language
       No upstream version since 1996
       
   By James Troup ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * regex -- GNU regular expression library
       
   By Patrick Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * cfs -- cryptographic filesystem (non-us)
     * mailpgp (non-us)
       
   By Steve Dunham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * xtar-dmotif -- Motif front end for tar
     * xtar-smotif -- Motif front end for tar, with static libXm
       
   By Helmut Geyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * xxgdb -- A X front-end to the GNU debugger gdb
       
   By Orn E. Hansen
   
     * xmailtool -- The good old BSD style mail reader
       
   By Yves Arrouye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * psptools -- Tools for PostScript printers and devices
       
   By Robert Leslie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * motifnls -- Files needed to run some Motif applications
       
   By Michael Fletcher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * javalex -- A Lex style analyser for java
       
   By Karl Sackett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * courtney -- Program to detect SATAN scans
     * groupkit -- Real-time groupware applications package
     * imgstar -- IMG* Image Processing Toolset and C Library (non-free)
     * lee -- Latent Energy Environment
     * pgapack -- A general-purpose genetic algorithm library
     * saoimage -- A utility for displaying astronomical images
     * snns -- Stuttgart Neural Net Simulator (non-free)
     * tcs -- Character set translator
     * wily -- A work-alike of the Acme programming environment for Plan
       9
       
   
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                              Withdwrawn packages
                                       
   A withdrawn package is an orphaned package that is no longer in the
   unstable distribution, but instead stored in project/orphaned. A new
   maintainer is needed to resurrect these pacakges:
   
     * apsfilter -- A lineprinter input filter for systems with lpd/lpr
     * auto-pgp -- integrates PGP with Emacs RMAIL mode (non-free)
     * cfgtool -- Manipulate system configuration variables
     * compress-package -- fileset to build Debian compress packages
       (contrib)
     * dld -- a library package of C functions that performs dynamic link
       editing (do we still need this?)
     * elvis -- vi-like editor
     * freelip -- Library functions for arithmetic on large integers
     * infocom -- A freely distributable parser for Infocom data files
     * isite -- Information System for Libraries
     * j1 -- A compiler of some sort
     * libc4 -- The Linux C library version 4 (a.out)
     * libfcgi2 -- FastCGI web library suite
     * libnatali -- An AppleTalk Library Interface compatibility library
     * mathpad -- Mathematically oriented document preparation
     * pash -- a full screen shell for Unix (contrib)
     * ppd-adobe -- Adobe's PostScript Printer Description files
       (non-free)
     * term -- a serial-line multiplexer
     * zyxel -- U-1496 (ZyXEL) Modem Driver for dialin, fax, and
       voice-mail (non-free)
       
   
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                       Packages needing a new maintainer
                                       
   Please inform the WNPP maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) via e-mail when
   you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package. To
   adopt a package, please inform both WNPP and the current maintainer of
   the package.
   
   The following packages are offered up for adoption:
   
   By Dirk Eddelbuettel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * xpdf -- Portable Document Format viewer for X11
       
   By Robert Resendes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * omniorb -- An object request broker (ORB) implementation
       
   By Federico Di Gregorio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * wwwoffle -- World Wide Web OFFline Explorer
     * tkstep4.2 -- The NEXTSTEP(tm)-like version of the Tk toolkit
     * tkstep8.0 -- The NEXTSTEP(tm)-like version of the Tk toolkit
     * noweb -- A WEB-like literate-programming tool
       
   By Yann Dirson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * tkman -- A graphical, hypertext, manual page browser
       
   By Darren/Torin/Who Ever... ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * lx-gdb -- Dump and load databases from the HP palmtop
       
   By Karl M. Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * cvsweb -- A CGI interface to your CVS repository
     * procmail-lib -- A library of useful procmail recipes
     * rel -- Determines relevance of text documents to a set of keywords
       (non-free)
     * cgiwrap -- Allows ordinary users to run their own CGI scripts
     * browser-history -- User daemon that tracks URL's looked at and
       logs them to a WWW page
       
   By Scott Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * deliver -- local mail delivery agent
       
   By Riku Voipio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * xfractint -- UNIX-based fractal generator
     * xtron -- Tron game for X
     * fte -- Fte text editor for Console and X-windows
     * gmod -- module player for Ultrasound and AWE soundcards
       
   By Johnie Ingram ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * cfengine -- tool for configuring and maintaining network machines
       
   By J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * lesstif -- Hungry Programmers' version of OSF/Motif.
       Making the lesstif packages isn't very difficult. The challenge
       with this package is that LessTif is still not complete, and may
       well again have bugs that are difficult to track (recently: memory
       leaks and X hangs). The ideal maintainer would be somebody who is
       familiar with debugging X stuff, and who is prepared to work
       closely with the upstream developers.
       
   By Vincent Renardias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * lde -- Linux Disk Editor
     * scilab -- Matrix-based scientific software package (a la Matlab
       and Xmath) (non-free)
       
   By Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * staroffice3 -- Star Office 3.1 installer
       
   By Michael Meskes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * html2latex -- Convert HTML markup to LaTeX markup (non-free)
     * umsdos -- UMSDOS file system utilities
       
   By Joost Witteveen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * axe -- An editor for X (non-free)
     * pixmap -- A pixmap editor
     * pstoedit -- Converts ps files into edditable files for xfig/tgif
     * wm2 -- Small, unconfigurable window manager
       
   By Christoph Lameter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * adpkg -- Alternate Package maintenance system (experimental)
     * cmostool -- CMOS manipulator
     * debsums -- Tools to handle md5sums for installed packages
     * devbios -- BIOS flash programming tool
     * floppybackup -- Floppy backup using a diversity of floppy formats
     * frad -- Frame Relay Tools for DLCI/SDLA Drivers in 2.0/2.1 kernels
     * htget -- HTTP file transfer tool
     * ipportfw -- Port forwarding tool + kernel patches
     * jered -- Simple C/C++ text editor with color
     * le -- Text Editor with block and binary operations
     * mserver -- Network Modem Server
     * optimizer -- Assembler Code optimizer for MMX, PPro and Pentium
       (non-free)
     * poppassd -- Password change server for Eudora and NUPOP
     * sftp -- Small ftp client with amazing features
     * sharefont -- Shareware font selection for X11 (non-free)
     * shaper -- Traffic shaper for 2.1.x kernels
     * smb-nat -- SMB Network Analysis Tool
     * xfstt -- TrueType Font Server for X11
     * xskat -- Skat as defined by the official german Skatordnung
     * zmailer -- Mailer for Extreme Performance Demands
       
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                      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.
   
   The following packages are being worked on:
   
   By Alex Romosan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * f77reorder -- handles some fortran 77 extensions
     * vat -- LBNL audio tool
     * Xmmix -- Motif-based audio mixer
     * xrn -- X11 USENET news reader, based on rn
     * nt -- shared text editor for the mbone
       
   By Anders Hammarquist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * The CODA distributed filesystem
       
   By Matt Pavlovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * xfont3d
     * xfpovray
       
   By Nils Lohner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * Nessus -- security auditing tool
       
   By Bjoern Brenander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * tcputils -- utils for TCP programming in shell-scripts
       
   By Bdale Garbee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * jstation -- ground station for amateur radio sattelites
       
   By Dennis L. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * sfio
       
   By Darren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * [5]eterm -- VT102 emulator for X
     * cdparanoia -- CD-DA utility not unlike cdda2wav
     * eplus
       
   By Karl M. Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * Gambit-C
     * scsh
       
   By Will Lowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * gmp3 -- the gtk frontend for mpg123
       
   By Jean Pierre LeJacq ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * [6]enskip -- security module for TCP/IP stack
     * linbot -- HTML link checking program written in python
       
   By Eric Leblanc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * glbiff -- A replacement for xbiff using Mesa
     * kangband -- An Angband variant
     * zangband -- Yet another Angband variant
       
   By Marcelo E. Magallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * wmcdplay -- applet for playing CDs
     * wmmount -- applet for mounting and unmounting filesystems
     * Login.app -- login interface to Linux/Unix
       
   By Ruud de Rooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * TYA -- JVM bytecode to native compiler
       
   By Joop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * colrconv -- curses based convers client
     * xconvers -- convers client for X and lesstif
     * gw4pts.morse -- free morse tutor for the pc-speaker
     * z8530-utils -- utilities to configure scc cards for packet radio
       
   By Lalo Martins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * djgcc -- cross-compiler for DOS
       
   By Joel Klecker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * pks -- PGP key server daemon
       
   By Jim Pick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * The [7]Japhar JVM
     * [8]mico ORB
       
   By Santiago Vila ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * awk -- the one, true Awk
       
   By Sudhakar Chandrasekharan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * xdir -- child of xftp
       
   By Gregory S. Stark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * kth kerberos (krb4 or heimdal)
       
   By Ed Petron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * eli -- compiler construction kit
       
   By Jens Ritter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * x11amp -- X-based mp3 player
       
   By Gene McCulley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * gcc-m68k-palmos-coff -- cross-compiler for PalmPilot
     * gdb-m68k-palmos-coff -- cross-debugger for PalmPilot
     * prc-tools
     * vMac -- Macintosh emulator
       
   By Hubert Weikert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * [9]FCT -- web-based firewall config tool
       
   By Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * aview -- high quality ascii-art browser
       
   By Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * perlindex -- search engine for Perl documentation
       
   By Patrick Ouellette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * gpc -- GNU Pascal Compiler
       
   By Fabien Ninoles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * RT-Linux kernel patch for realtime support
     * Cold Project -- A free Multi User Virtual Environment, a.k.a. 'MUD
       with much more!'
       
   By Alistair Cunningham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * Chain Reaction
       
   By Ben Gertzfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * TCD, a GPL audio CD player
       
   By Greg Stark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * zephyr
       
   By Brian Basset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * WarFTPD
       
   By Alexander List ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * [10]tpc
       
   By Robert Edmonds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * tasktimer
       
   By Roderick Schertler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * quake2-dm
     * libfile-df-perl
       
   By Tom Lear ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * acidwarp -- svgalib screen hack ported from dos
     * xfmix -- xforms-based mixer program
       
   By Kirk Hilliard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * proj -- conversion utilities for geographic projections and
       coordinate systems
       
   By Ed Petron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set (PCCTS)
       
   By Anselm Lingnau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * tclhttpd -- TCL-based webserver
       
   By Shaleh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * chamelion -- draw into the root window
     * fnlib -- another of Rasterman's crazed libs
     * [11]The enlightenment window manager
       
   By Erik Andersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * [12]Willows TWIN
       
   By Alexander Lazarevic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * squeak -- implementation of Smalltalk
       
   By Stuart Lamble ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * [13]Modula-3
       
   By Igor Grobman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * (x)battleball -- 3D soccer game
       
   By Brian Bassett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * Caldera COAS
       
   By Brian Sulcer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * vile (vi-like editor)
     * rogue
     * umoria
       
   By Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * yodl
       
   By Christian Lynbech ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * ilisp -- emacs interface to a number of lisp systems
     * hyperbole -- emacs hypertext/info management system
     * oobr -- emacs package for browsing OO programs
     * STk -- Scheme Tk, a scheme interpreter with Tk support
       
   By Dermot Bradley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * Umich LDAP
       
   By Klee Dienes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * NIST's POSIX validation suite
       
   By Yoshiaki Yanagihara ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * japanese packages -- mule
       
   By Boris D. Beletsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * MIT scheme
     * Scheme->C
     * [14]Freedom Desktop
       
   By Christian Leutloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * dtdparse
     * iDoc -- QA tool for Java Send mail if you're interested in this
       package.
       
   By Kai Henningsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * sather
       
   By Tristan McCann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * Linux phone
       
   By Martin Alonso Soto Jacome ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * [15]jazz midi sequencer
       
   By Christian Meder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * [16]MuPAD -- computer algebra tool from University of Paderborn,
       Germany
       
   By Andy Mortimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * TinyMUSH
       
   By Yann Dirson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * Using SGML, basic concepts -- documentation
     * Understanding and writing SGML DTDs -- documentation
       
   By Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * [17]mars_nwe -- Netware server
       
   By Marco Budde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * HTML version of Matt Welsh's "Installation & Getting Started"
       
   By Charles Briscoe-Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * UPS -- the X-based debugger (there are Linux-specific patches
       around)
     * GSpreview
       
   By Peter Tonoli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * terroid
       
   By Joost Kooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * xbat
       
   By Stephan Suerken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * uae
     * gom
     * xpcd
       
   By Brian S. Julin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * hypernews
       
   By Federico Di Gregorio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * reiserfs
       
   By James R. Van Zandt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * mirrordir -- mirrors directory trees
     * emacsspeak-bs
     * emacsspeak-ap
     * emacsspeak-ac
     * emacsspeak-xx
       
   By David Damerell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * mangband
       
   By Gregor Hoffleit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * cakit
     * ockit
       
   By Brian Bassett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * cgic -- CGI C library from boutell.com
     * srgp -- Simple Raster Graphics Package
       
   By Leonardo Boselli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * listguard -- mailing list manager
       
   By Gergely Madarasz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * hugs -- haskell interpreter
       
   By Claus R. Wickinghoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
   
     * changesys -- newsgroup ordering tool
       
   
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                 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 one of these packages, or any Debian package,
   please send an e-mail with an "Intent to create ..." subject line to
   the Debian development list (debian-devel@lists.debian.org).
   
   If you are not already a developer, instructions on joining the Debian
   Project are in the "Developers Corner" of the Debian website.
   
   Programming and development
   
     * The [18]Java Development Environment wrapper for xemacs.
     * The [19]Linux BLAS, FFTs, general utilities and libraries, and
       library support for Extended Precision Arithmetic
     * ccmalloc -- memory profiler and malloc debugger
     * ECoLisp -- a Common Lisp compiler that produces faster code but
       isn't as widely used as GCL
     * CLiCC -- Common Lisp compiler that generates stand-alone apps
       (rather large ones, though)
     * CLX -- Common Lisp Xlib implementation
     * PCL -- Portable Common Loops for GCL
     * Cross-compilation environments for alpha, m68k, SPARC
     * [20]ACE -- (a free C++ library)
     * [21]GNU Nana -- improved support for assertions and logging in C
       and C++.
     * [22]qddb -- a relational database.
       
   Graphics
   
     * Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system,
       Dore'.
     * The [23]pnmhisteq add-on that came with an older versions of
       netpbm.
     * A pstogif package, (a binary is currently buried inside xemacs19,
       xemacs20, latex2html, and sdc).
     * A CAD package from the [24]Scientific Applications on Linux page.
       
   X11
   
     * The LGPL-ed GUI library [25]fltk which is supposed to be
       compatible with (non-free) XForms toolkit. Use of XForms is the
       sole reason that several useful packages like lyx are in contrib
       rather than main.
     * Andrew
     * [26]mergemem
     * grok -- database with many functions
     * xidle
     * [27]Express, the GTK web browser for GNOME.
       
   Networking and Communication
   
     * ftptool
     * [28]BeroFTPD, a wu-ftpd derived ftp server program fixing some
       wu-ftpd bugs and adding a few more features.
     * [29]Speakerphone/Answering Machine for USR and Rockwell Modems
     * [30]SSL FTP and FTPD -- If possible, the SSL functionality for the
       daemon should be ported to the one in netstd, as that may contain
       security fixes not in SSL ftpd.
     * [31]Telnet98, with 128-bit encryption (non-us).
     * [32]pathchar, a device for measuring bandwidth of remote pipes.
       
   Text utilities
   
     * HTML editors (tkHTML, auc-html.el)
     * [33]Virtual Paper
     * [34]perlmacs, which creates a program that has all the
       functionality of both Perl and GNU Emacs.
       
   Misc
   
     * [35]Artificial Life Programs
     * [36]Acmaint -- user administration tool
     * [37]hpack -- non-us archiver
     * [38]rar -- shareware archiver
     * The operator shell ( [39]http://www.engarde.com/~mcn/osh.html).
     * The transparent cryptographic filesystem
       ([40]http://tcfs.dia.unisa.it/).
       
   
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                      Programs that someone should write
                                       
   This section contains suggestions/wishes for programs. There is no
   known implementation of such a program for Linux.
   
     * amspell (ms-dos) -like spell checker, i.e. a spell checker that
       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.
       
   
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                        Packages that cant be packaged
                                       
     * HotJava -- the license prohibits redistribution of any kind.
     * Secure remote password (srp) -- a US-only export-controlled
       package.
       
   
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                              Historical Changes
                                       
Since version 1998/03/30

   The tkhylafax, canna, and jless packages have been uploaded.
   
   Packages needing a new maintainer
     * The dosfstools package (mkdosfs and dosfsck) is offered by Martin
       Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED], IRC "Joey").
     * The lx-gdb package is offered by ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * The tkman package is offered by Yann Dirson
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * The nn newsreader package is now orphaned.
       
   Packages adopted
     * The wwwoffle, tkstep4.2, tkstep8.0, and noweb packages are offered
       by Federico Di Gregorio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * The fvwm95 and tkdesk packages have been adopted by Daniel Martin
       at cush ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * The xlockmore and xlockmore-gl packages are adopted by Herbert Xu
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * The ipgraf package is adopted by Robert S. Edmonds
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED], IRC "stu").
     * The doc-linux package is adopted by Marco Budde
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * The presumably orphaned wordnet suite is adopted by Andreas Tille
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * The splay and zoo packages are adopted by Petr Cech
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * The sniffit and xzx packages are adopted by Damjan Marion
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
       
   Packages being created
     * The gmp3 front-end for mpg123 is being packaged by Will Lowe
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * Linbot, a HTML link checking program written in python, is being
       packaged by Jean Pierre LeJacq ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * The must-have "xteddy" package is being created by Andreas Tille
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * Packages for glbiff, kangband, and zangband are being created by
       Eric Leblanc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * A djgcc cross-compiler is being packaged by Lalo Martins
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * A cdparanoia package is being created by ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * Packages for colrconv, xconvers, gw4pts.morse, and z8530-utils are
       being created by Joop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * A package for gated is being investigated by Richard Nelson
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED], IRC "cowboy"), if the OSPF licensing is now
       less restrictive.
     * The FPK-pascal suite is being packaged by Jeff Shilt
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * Packages for Rasterman's fnlib are being created by Shaleh
       ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * TYA, a compiler from JVM bytecode to intel, is being worked on by
       Ruud de Rooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * Packages for Gambit-C and scsh (based on Scheme48) are being
       created by Karl M. Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
     * Login.app, a graphical login program, is being packaged by Marcelo
       Magallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
       
   Packages someone could package for Debian 2.1
     * A libg++2.8 package for version 2.8.1.1.
     * Nessus Alpha 1 -- yet another security auditing tool.
     * The Java Development Environment wrapper for xemacs.
     * A pdftex package, for a version of TeX/LaTeX which directly
       generates PDF.
       
   
   
   
   
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References

   1. http://www.debian.org/developers_corner.html
   2. http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html
   3. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-packages.txt
   4. 
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-packages.html
   5. http://www.tcserv.com/Eterm/
   6. http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~skip/
   7. http://www.hungry.com/products/japhar
   8. http://diamant-atm.vsb.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~mico/
   9. http://www.fen.baynet.de/~ft114/FCT/index.htm
  10. http://www.tpc.int/
  11. http://www.enlightenment.org/
  12. http://www.willows.com/
  13. http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/home.html
  14. ftp://fsw.com/pub/fdlite/FDlite1.32.tar.gz
  15. http://rokke.grm.hia.no/per/jazz.html
  16. http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~cube
  17. ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs
  18. http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde/
  19. http://www.cs.utk.edu/~ghenry/distrib
  20. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
  21. http://wattle.cs.ntu.edu.au/homepages/pjm/nana-home/
  22. ftp://ftp.hsdi.com/pub/qddb/sources/
  23. http://www.fourmilab.ch/netpbm
  24. http://www.idite-minho.pt/SAL/
  25. http://www.cinenet.net/users/spitzak/fltk/
  26. http://www.mondoshawan.ml.org/mergemem/
  27. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~conradp/express/
  28. ftp://linux.net.eu.org/pub/BeroFTPD
  29. http://www.mindspring.com/~bnaylor/spk/
  30. ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/SSLapps/
  31. ftp://quasimodo.stanford.edu/pub/telnet/
  32. ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pathchar/
  33. http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/
  34. http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Emacs/
  35. http://alife.santafe.edu/
  36. ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/ACMAINT/
  37. http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/public/computing/archiving/compress/hpack/
  38. http://www.zetnet.co.uk/RAR.T-Mail/
  39. http://www.engarde.com/~mcn/osh.html
  40. http://tcfs.dia.unisa.it/


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