Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.67 1998/01/20 04:59:47 johnie 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>

  o  <ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-
   packages.html>


1.4.  Feedback

Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to the WNPP
maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED]  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 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.



2.  Recent Changes

2.1.  Since version 1.66 1998/01/12


  o  New maintainer Randall Loomis <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has
   adopted bridge and bridgex.

  o  Eric Prestemon <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted freelip.

  o  A.F.R. Bain <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted ftnchek and
   ratfor77.

  o  GNU R is uploaded.

  o  The xtar suite and Kmodplayer are now orphaned.

  o  Anders Hammarquist <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted knfs.

  o  The dhcp, dhcp-beta, tama (Net Tamagotchi server), wanpipe (kernel
   WAN tools) and zed (editor) packages are now available for adoption
   from Christoph Lameter <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.




3.  Orphaned packages

(An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.)


Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.


Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  Kmodplayer


Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] :


  o  xtar-dmotif

  o  xtar-smotif




Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] :


  o  kde

  o  giflib


Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] :


  o  blt


Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] :


  o  ghostview

  o  libc5

  o  libc5-altdbg

  o  libc5-altdev


  o  libc6.1

  o  libc6.1-dbg

  o  libc6.1-dev

  o  libc6.1-pic

  o  libproc-dev

  o  xxgdb


Orn E. Hansen :

  o  xega

  o  xmailtool


Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  compress-package

  o  ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs

  o  psptools



Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  csh

Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  zyxel


Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  j1 (in old source format)

  o  sam


Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  mh-papers

  o  term



Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  apsfilter


Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  mathpad

  o  mfbasfnt


  o  wenglish


Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  xarchie

  o  bibindex




Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  fsp



Guy R. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  dld (do we still need this ?)


Patrick J Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  mailpgp





Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  motifnls


David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  tcl74

  o  tcl75

  o  tk40

  o  tk41


Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  tclx74

  o  tclx75

  o  tix40


Michael Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  javalex

  o  java-cup

  o  rsynth



Karl Sackett [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  courtney

  o  groupkit

  o  imgstar

  o  lee

  o  objpak

  o  pgapack

  o  premail

  o  saoimage

  o  snns

  o  tcs

  o  wily

  o  xbattle

  o  xephem-smotif



Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  hyperlatex

  o  latex2rtf


Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  gettyps


Others:

  o  rc

  o  xcompat (should we drop it ?)

  o  libc4 (a.out compatibility)

















4.  Packages needing a new maintainer

Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] via e-mail:

  o  when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package

Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the mainatiner of the package:

  o  when you would like to maintain one of the packages.


Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;

  o  scilab


Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  seyon

  o  lpr


Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  staroffice3


Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] :


  o  dhcp

  o  dhcp-beta

  o  tama  (Net Tamagotchi server)

  o  wanpipe (Tools for kernel WAN functionality)

  o  zed (editor)


  o  adpkg

  o  berolist

  o  bonnie

  o  debsums

  o  defrag

  o  dhcpd

  o  floppybackup

  o  freefont

  o  fvwm95

  o  gpc

  o  gpc-doc

  o  hylafax

  o  isite

  o  jail

  o  jered

  o  le

  o  libgpc2

  o  mserver

  o  nat

  o  ncompress

  o  ncsa

  o  omirr

  o  optimizer

  o  pash

  o  poppassd

  o  sftp

  o  sharefont

  o  smb-nat

  o  ssmtp

  o  transproxy

  o  xfstt

  o  xskat

  o  zmailer


Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] :


Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  lurkftp


Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  lde

  o  xabacus

  o  xmcpustate

  o  xodo


Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  html2latex

  o  icmake

  o  ntfs

  o  umsdos

  o  xftp


Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  axe

  o  pixmap

  o  pstoedit

  o  wm2


Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  hypermail










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.


Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  Modula-3
   <http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/home.html>


Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  (x)battleball (3D soccer game)


Brian Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  Caldera COAS


Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  zile (an emacs-like editor)


Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  tkman


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, canna, Japanese Extended less)


Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  MIT scheme

  o  Scheme->C

  o  Freedom Desktop <ftp://fsw.com/pub/fdlite/FDlite1.32.tar.gz>


Christian Leutloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  newtonlink

  o  jadetex

  o  dtdparse

  o  biss-awt


Todd Graham Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  Kerberos ver. V (crypto) (non-US maintainer still needed)

  o  socks


Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  sather


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



Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  Using SGML - basic concepts (documentation)


  o  Understanding and writing SGML DTDs (documentation)



Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  mars_nwe <ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs> (Netware server )


Mark Mickan [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  hylafax


Marco Budde [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  HTML version of Matt Welsh's "Installation &  Getting Started"


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


Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  xbat


Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  clisp


Stephan Suerken [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  uae

  o  gom

  o  xpcd


Brian S. Julin [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  hypernews


Robert Resendes [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  omniORB <http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html>


Ole Jrgen Tetlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  battalion


Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  crack

  o  cracklib


Federico Di Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  reiserfs


Stefan Gybas [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  hsc


James R. Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  emacsspeak-bs

  o  emacsspeak-ap

  o  emacsspeak-ac

  o  emacsspeak-xx

David Damerell [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  mangband

Gregor Hoffleit [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  gstep-make

  o  gstep-gui

  o  gstep-xdps

  o  gstep-db

  o  dgs

  o  cakit

  o  ockit

  o  objc

Brian Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  cgic - CGI C library from boutell.com.

  o  srgp - Simple Raster Graphics Package

Leonardo Boselli [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  listguard - mailing list manager

Gergely Madarasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  hugs - haskell interpreter

Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] :


  o  xtrs - TRS-80 emulator

Claus R. Wickinghoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

  o  changesys - newsgroup ordering tool












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, please send an e-mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]



6.1.  Programming and development:


  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  ACE <http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html> (a free C++
   library)



6.2.  USENET news software:


  o  strn.



6.3.  Graphics:


  o  Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system,
   Dore'.


6.4.  X11:



  o  Andrew

  o  grok (database with many functions)

  o  xidle

  o  enlightenment



6.5.  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  SSL FTP and FTPD <ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/SSLapps/>.  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.

  o  multicast (MBONE)



6.6.  Text utilities


  o  HTML editors (tkHTML, auc-html.el)

  o  Virtual Paper
   <http://www.research.digital.com:80/SRC/virtualpaper/>


6.7.  Misc


  o  Artificial Life Programs ( http://alife.santafe.edu )

  o  Acmaint <ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/ACMAINT/> (User
   administration tool)

  o  Willows <http://www.willows.com>.














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.






8.  Historic Changes

8.1.  Since version 1.65 1998/01/05


  o  Martin Schulze <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is giving away the
   staroffice3 installer, and Vincent Renardias
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is offering scilab.

  o  The autofs, sidplay, dialdcost, xmbdfed, gnome, siag, synaethesia,
   abc2ps, and abcmidi packages have been uploaded.

  o  Davide G. M. Salvetti <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted lacheck
   and auctex.

  o  Joel Klecker <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted vgrind.

  o  The xproc package is no longer orphaned, as it is included in
   procps.



8.2.  Since version 1.64 1997/12/29


  o  Craig Small <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted procps.

  o  Richard Braakman <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted ftplib.

  o  Kai Henningsen <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted adbbs.

  o  Gergely Madarasz <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted htdig.

  o  Douglas Bates <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted xspread.

  o  Adrian Bridgett <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted
   tkdiff and uploaded pppload.

  o  Stuart Lamble <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on
   modula-3.

  o  Karl M. Hegbloom <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has
   adopted suidmanager.

  o  The pgcc compiler is obsolete and no longer listed as orphaned.



8.3.  Since version 1.63 1997/12/22


  o  Frederic Lepied <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working
   on xmbdfed, a powerful X11 font editor.

  o  Boris D. Beletsky <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on a
   Scheme->C translator.
  o  Glimpse has been adopted by Marco Budde
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Herbert Xu <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has taken over
   netpbm and chimera.

  o  Andreas Franzen <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has
   adopted xarclock.

  o  New maintainer Adam P. Harris <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is
   adopting addressbook.

  o  Igor Grobman <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on xbattleball.



8.4.  Since version 1.62 1997/12/15


  o  Elie Rosenblum <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted the arpd
   package.

  o  The lxtools packge is now being maintained by Mark Eichin
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Joel Klecker <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is now maintaining 9fonts, 9menu,
   9term, 9wm, and mimedecode.

  o  Juergen Menden <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted
   dialdcost.

  o  Martin Mitchell <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted flin, and is
   working on synaethesia (a cd player with graphical effects).

  o  Steve Kostecke <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted linuxlogo.

  o  The Linux Explorer, DQS, and PVM are now uploaded.

  o  Orphaned majordomo, ratfor77 and ftnchek.

  o  Steve McIntyre <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted
   unarj, lha, nas, giftrans, and xpostitplus.

  o  Request for "debian administration tool" dropped, since as Brian
   Bassett <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is now packaging COAS.



8.5.  Since version 1.61 1997/12/08


  o  The postgresql and typist packages are now uploaded.

  o  The witalian package is now being maintained by Davide G. M.
   Salvetti <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Orphaned glimpse.

  o  Ole J. Tetlie <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted pari and
   paridoc.

  o  Debmake is now maintained by Santiago Vila Doncel
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  The verse, bible-kjv, and worklog packages are now maintained by
   Oliver Elphick <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
  o  Paul Slootman <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is now maintaining
   isdnutils.

  o  Removed strn from "not available" section.

  o  The giflib and kde packages are now orphaned.

  o  Joel Klecker <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is now maintaining macutils,
   mcvert, and opie, and is working on zile (an emacs-like editor).

  o  Juergen Menden <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is now working on
   the orphaned package dialdcost.

  o  Yann Dirson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on the
   previously orphaned package tkman.

  o  Removed agrep from text utilities needing packaging, as it is
   contained within glimpse.

  o  Jim Mintha <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on taking over the
   packages lsof and automount.

  o  Dropped the orphaned package bzip completely.

  o  Igor Grobman <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is packaging battleball, a
   3D soccer game played with tanks.

  o  Orphaned arpd and vgrind, as Dominik Kubla has left the Project.

  o  Douglas Bates <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on GNU R,
   which is not unlike S, a language and system for statistical data
   analysis and graphics developed at Bell Labs.

  o  Removed perl documentaion from works in progress, as the provided
   manpages are sufficient.

  o  Roberto Lumbreras <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted the radiusd-
   merit package.



8.6.  Since version 1.59 1997/11/17


  o  The libc6 suite (libc6-pic, libc6, libc6-dbg, locales, libc6-dev,
   timezones, libc6-doc) is adopted by David Engel
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Packages fortunes, fortune-mod and chos adopted by Brian Bassett
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Orphaned auctex, bzip (libc5), ghostview, lacheck (libc5), libc5,
   libc5-altdbg, libc5-altdev, libc6.1, libc6.1-dbg, libc6.1-dev,
   libc6.1-pic, libproc-dev, procps, xproc, and xxgdb.

  o  Christoph Lameter <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is offering most of
   his packages: debmake, debsums, bonnie, fvwm95, linuxlogo, ncsa,
   poppassd, suidmanager, and verse, among others.

  o  The gnome window manager is being worked on by Francesco Tapparo
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Hamish Moffatt has taken over guavac.

  o  Rob Browning <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted swisswatch,
   hfsutils, and psutils.
  o  The rocks-and-diamonds package has been uploaded.

  o  Gergely Madarasz <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on
   rinetd.

  o  Added enlightement to packages someone should work on -- copies are
   floating around the net but were never uploaded to master.

  o  Orphaned blt.

  o  The Work Needing and Prospective Packages list is temporarily being
   maintained by Johnie Ingram <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.


8.7.  Since version 1.58 1997/11/10


  o  Changed address for Yoshiaki Yanagihara to be [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  o  Changed address for Chirstian Leutloff to be [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  o  Added lsof to "packages needing a new maintainer".

  o  Info2www adopted by Marco Budde <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Mysql adopted by Scott Hanson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Dvi2tty adopted by Adrian Bridgett
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Gregor Hoffleit <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is
   working on gstep-make, gstep-gui, gstep-xdps, gstep-db, dgs, cakit,
   ockit, objc, and adopted libtclobjc.

  o  Paul J Thompson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is
   packaging Linux explorer (used to be Craig Small).

  o  Added unarj as orphan (probably forgotten eons ago).

  o  Libdnd1 adopted by James LewisMoss <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Statserial adopted by Brian Bassett
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and Brian is working on srgp and
   cgic.

  o  Leonardo Boselli <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on
   listguard.

  o  Gergely Madarasz <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on hugs.

  o  Gettyps is orphaned.

  o  Branden Robinson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is
   working on xtrs.

  o  Umsdos is orphaned.

  o  Majordomo adopted by Claus R. Wickinghoff
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, whos is also working on changesys.

  o  James A.Treacy <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on siag.

  o  Uploaded packages (dropped from the list):

  o  kon

  o  kterm

  o  www-sql

  o  delimmatch

  o  rvplayer


8.8.  Since version 1.57 1997/10/06


  o  Moved addressbook to orphaned.

  o  Freeciv adopted by Richard Braakman <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Linux explorer moved to section "packages someone is working on".

  o  xscreensaver taken over by Craig Small <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Added sidplay in section "packages someone is working on".

  o  Dropped bzip2 from "needed packages".

  o  Dmalloc adopted by Luis Francisco Gonzalez
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Added lurkftp and htdig into "packages needing a new maintainer".

  o  Moved hyperlatex and latex2rtf from "packages needing a new
   maintainer" to orphans section.

  o  Gnuplot adopted by Tibor Simko
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Added typist and realvideo-installer to "packages someone is
   working on".

  o  Ptx adopted by Santiago Vila Doncel <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Gcl and gclinfo adopted by Steve Dunham
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Mesa and glut adopted by James A.Treacy <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Sox adopted by Guenter Geiger <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Stefan Gybas <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on
   hsc.

  o  Christian Leutloff <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working
   on jadetex, dtdparse, delimmatch, newtonlink biss-awt.

  o  James R. Van Zandt <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on
   emacsspeak-{bs,ap,ac,xx} (Sorry for the bashism ;-).

  o  Hamish Moffatt <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on www-sql.

  o  Fvwm95, ncompress, upsd, xskat back into the orphans list.

  o  Fdos and komirr removed (dropped).

  o  Ircd adopted by the mysterious Ben (ask Christoph Lameter
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>).


  o  Willows added to the list of wanted packages.

  o  Oliver Elphick <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on
   PostgreSQL.

  o  Thhtpd was dropped.

  o  Idutch and wdutch adopted by Richard Braakman
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Xosview adopted by Radu Duta <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  David Damerell <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working
   on mangband.

  o  Libkde0, libkde0-dev, kdeapps adopted by Andreas Jellinghaus
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Dropped trafshow (already in netdiag package).

  o  Newly uploaded packages (removed):

  o  xmgr

  o  xzx

  o  screen

  o  xconq

  o  figfonts

  o  xonix

  o  fidogate


8.9.  Since version 1.56 1997/09/08


  o  General cleanup of orphans package (no visible changes).

  o  Started probing for people who claimed they wanted to take over a
   package and never did it.

  o  Fixed a bad url.

  o  Removed cam from "packages someone is working on", uploaded.

  o  Restored majordomo in "packages needing a new maintainer" (new
   maintainer renounced).

  o  Removed hpcdtoppm from "packages someone is working on" and added
   gom instead (gom supercedes hpcdtoppm).

  o  Gpc, libgpc2 and gpc-doc taken over by Paul J. Thompson
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and removed.

  o  Gs, gsfonts, gs-aladdin and libpaper taken over by Marco Pistore
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and removed.

  o  Ucbmpeg and ucbmpeg-play taken over by Johnie Ingram
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and removed.

  o  Xmorph uploaded and removed from "packages someone is working on".

  o  Added bzip2 to "packages someone should package" section.

  o  Vrweb taken over by Larry Gilbert <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Orphaned guavac, javalex, java-cup and rsynth.

  o  Wnorwegian taken over by Ole Jrgen Tetlie <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Jean Pierre LeJacq <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on
   crack and cracklib.

  o  Xfig and transfig taken over by Enrique Zanardi
   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Isite, linuxlogo, loadlin, ncsa, omir, pash, poppassd, syslinux,
   transproxy, worklog taken over by a mysterious Ben (ask Christoph
   Lameter <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>).

  o  Added autofs, floppybackup, jered, nat, optimizer, sftp, ssmtp to
   "packages to give away".

  o  Enrique Zanardi <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on
   xmgr.

  o  Added addressbook as package to give away.

  o  Xfmail uploaded and removed from "packages someone is working on".

  o  offix-clipboard, offix-editor, offix-execute, offix-files, offix-
   trash taken over by James LewisMoss <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

  o  Removed the packages Karl Sackett was working on (leaving the
   project).


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