Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.36 1997/02/18 21:41:28 sr1 Exp sr1 $
1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ ( http://www.debian.org/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/Documentation/Debian/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 Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. orphaned : o libc4 (a.out compatibility) David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o libc5, libc6 (potentially a lot of work) Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o tgif o xarchie Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fdutils o hkgerman o html2latex o icmake o lshell o ntfs o umsdos o watchdog o xftp Dale Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lclint Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o pmake Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o idanish o mh-papers o term o wfrench o witalian o wswedish Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o seyon o lpr Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xfractint o fractxtra o xarclock o xdaliclock o lha o dosfstools o ctwm o sendfile o uudeview Andrew Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xtron Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fsp o libelf o lyx Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o abuse o apsfilter Yves Arrouye : o compress-package o mush o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ipx o nas o ncpfs Joe Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lxtools Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o glibcdoc o hyperlatex o id-utils o mathpad o dlh o wenglish o wdutch o idutch Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o adbbs (needs a better setup of pre-customized files) o bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X) o chos o defrag o freefont o genromfs o ibcs o ircd o ncompress o ncsa (new Webstandards need to be implemented) o netdiag o newsx o pash o poppassd o sharefont o syslinux o upsd llucius [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dialog Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sysutils Marcel Riedi: o rsynth 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. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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 courtney - detects SATAN scans o gabriel - detects SATAN scans o drone - automatically runs batch jobs of simulation programs. o xephem - interactive astronomical ephemeris program for X o empire - Wolfpack Empire war simulation o togl - a Tk widget for OpenGL rendering o MIT Scheme - scheme interpreter o nanocad - a freeware CAD system for nanotechnology o WISE - WWW-based project management and metrics system Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o giftool o lx-gdb Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o glimpsehttpd David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 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 Brian Sulcer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vile (vi-like editor) o rogue o umoria Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vtwm: Virtual Window Manager for X11 o yodl o w3-msql (W3 frontend for mSQL) Michael Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o amanda, the University of Maryland's free network backup system. o nntplink Christophe Le Bars [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o MMM: a WWW browser implemented in Caml o doc-debian-fr Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o qmail (waiting for license change) Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o metapost (postscript generating language similar to metafont) o TeX packages Dermot Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Hylafax o Umich LDAP o Nocol (network admin/monitoring) o MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) o Minivend (WWW-based catalogues) o Gated o PMConsole (Livingston's Portmaster admin tool) o Portmaster tools (pmwho, log analyzers, etc) Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xmcd (ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmcd/xmcd-2.0.README) o NIST's POSIX validation suite Yoshiaki Yanagihara [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o japanese packages (mule, kon, kterm, canna, Japanese Extended less) Lars Esbjerg Hoeg [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dotfile-gen Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ircd-dalnet (dalnet irc daemon) Christian Leutloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o newtl (accessing Apple Newton Messagepad) Todd Graham Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Kerberos ver. V (crypto) (non-US maintainer still needed) o socks Bill Bumgarner [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o GnuStep-related packages Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o addressbook o xmailbox o plan Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o genpower, an UPS monitoring package Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sather Lukas Nellen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o thttpd Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o scion o sniffit o radiusd-merit-las o phpfi o xssi o libfcgi1 o libfcgi1-dev Loic Prylli [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o jove Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o VRweb (vrml browser) John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o WorldVU-Atlantis BBS package o midiplay (MIDI player) Tristan McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Linux phone Goran Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o iswedish Martin Alonso Soto Jacome [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o wxwin ( http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/ ) o jazz midi sequencer ( http://rokke.grm.hia.no/per/jazz.html ) 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. (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!) 4.2. USENET news software: o strn. 4.3. Math packages: 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 BLAS (numerical libraries, http://nils.wustl.edu/schiotz/lapack- linux.html ) o mercury (a purely declarative logic programming language with strong modes, strong types, and strong determinism) 4.4. Graphics: o Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system, Dore'. 4.5. Games: o rocks and diamonds o xgammon 4.6. X11: o Andrew o grok (database with many functions) o xidle o xtoolplaces o installation wrapper for Starwriter (Starwriter requires Motif) 4.7. Networking o Roxen (WWW server, http://spinner.infovav.se/ ) o Amaya (W3C editor and browser, http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Amaya ) o ftptool 4.8. Text utilities o HTML editors (tkHTML, auc-html.el) o Virtual Paper ( http://www.research.digital.com:80/SRC/virtualpaper/ ) 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
