Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.51 1997/08/04 07:11:51 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. 2. Changes 2.1. 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 hextype o speak-freely (non-US developper) o xega o xmailtool o xspread Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o compress-package o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools llucius [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dialog Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o arpd o cflow o csh o ptx o spell o vlock Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o zyxel Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o nas Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mh-papers o term o witalian o pari, paridoc o wnorwegian Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xosview (probably to be abandonned) Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o apsfilter Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o giftrans o idutch o mathpad o mfbasfnt o wdutch o wenglish Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o xarchie o bibindex J.A.vanderMost [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dmalloc Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o opie Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fsp Patrick Weemeeuw [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tripwire Larry 'Daffy' Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xscreensaver Guy R. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dld (do we still need this ?) Patrick J Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mailpgp Dermot Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o radiusd-merit Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vrweb Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dip & sliplogin (used to be in netstd). Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o deliver o figfonts o figlet o hfsutils o maelstrom o motifnls o sox 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o chimera (should be upgraded to v1.70) o enscript o seyon o lpr o xonix o xpat2 o xsok Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xarclock o lha o dosfstools o sendfile Joe Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lxtools Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 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 o ircd Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sysutils Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dvi2tty o hyperlatex o info2www o latex2rtf o mysql Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o html2latex o icmake o ntfs o xftp Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o bin86 o libpaper o axe o es o pixmap Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o flin o deliver 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. [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 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o giftool 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) 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) Dermot Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Umich LDAP o Nocol (network admin/monitoring) 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 NIST's POSIX validation suite Yoshiaki Yanagihara [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o japanese packages (mule, kon, kterm, canna, Japanese Extended less) Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o MIT scheme o Freedom Desktop <ftp://fsw.com/pub/fdlite/FDlite1.32.tar.gz> 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 Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sather Lukas Nellen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o thttpd Loic Prylli [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o jove John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o WorldVU-Atlantis BBS package o midiplay (MIDI player) Tristan McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Linux phone Martin Alonso Soto Jacome [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o jazz midi sequencer <http://rokke.grm.hia.no/per/jazz.html> Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o MuPAD Andy Mortimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o TinyMUSH Larry Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o hypernews o xmorph Lalo Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o djgpp o enlightenment o enlighthemes o imlib o rxvt-imlib o eterm Luis Francisco Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xgammon Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o perl5 programming (documentation) o Using SGML - basic concepts (documentation) o Understanding and writing SGML DTDs (documentation) Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 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 ) Anthony Fok [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o OpusTeX Mark Mickan [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o hylafax Marco Budde [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o HTML version of Matt Welsh's "Installation & Getting Started" Drake Diedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o PVW o DQS Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o UPS - the X-based debugger. (There are Linux-specific patches around.) o GSpreview Peter Tonoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o terroid Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk : o smalleiffeil Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xbat Juan Cespedes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xzx Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o clisp 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. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
