Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
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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* withdrawn from the unstable distribution,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-pa
ckages.txt
* [4]ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-pa
ckages.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 1.69 1998/02/09
* Document converted to new DOCTYPE specification (comments on the
new style are welcome).
* Steve McIntyre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has adopted seyon
and sigrot.
* Johnie Ingram ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has adopted cfengine.
* Tony Mancill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has adopted wanpipe.
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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.
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
* byacc -- The Berkeley LALR parser generator
* csh -- Shell with C-like syntax, standard login shell on BSD
systems
* ftplib -- Library of callable ftp routines
* mcvert -- Tool to deal with specially encoded Macintosh files
(non-free)
* netcat -- TCP/IP swiss army knife
* 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
* ucbmpeg -- MPEG video encoder and analysis tools (non-free)
* ucbmpeg-play -- Software-only MPEG video player (non-free)
* xabacus -- Implementation of the classic Chinese abacus
* xbattle -- A concurrent multi-player battle strategy game
* xmcpustate -- Displays CPU/Swap/Memory/Network load
* xodo -- Odometer tracking the distance travelled by your mouse
* xpostitplus -- PostIt(tm) notes for X windows
By Andreas Jellinghaus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* The KDE Suite (contrib)
* giflib -- shared library for GIF images (non-free)
By Patrick Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* cfs -- cryptographic filesystem (non-us)
* saytime -- Say the time through your soundcard
* sniffit -- System administrator TCP/IP snooping tool
* mailpgp (non-us)
By Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* Kmodplayer -- KDE module player (non-free)
Ideally, it should be adopted by the same person who takes KDE.
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]):
* ghostview -- The GNU PostScript viewer (X11 frontend to
Ghostscript)
* 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 Erick Branderhorst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* wenglish -- English dictionary words for /usr/dict
By Larry 'Daffy' Daffner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* xscreensaver -- Automatic screensaver for X
By Fabien Ninoles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* vrweb -- A VRML browser and editor
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
* java-cup -- LALR grammar parser for java (contrib)
* rsynth -- Text to speach program (non-free)
By Karl Sackett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* blt -- A library of extensions to the Tk toolkit
* 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
* objpak -- An Objective-C collection class library
* pgapack -- A general-purpose genetic algorithm library
* premail -- An e-mail privacy package (non-free)
* 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
* xephem-smotif -- An interactive astronomical ephemeris for X
(contrib)
By Christian Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* hyperlatex -- Creating HTML using LaTeX documents
* latex2rtf -- LaTeX text to RTF format translator
By Herbert Xu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* gettyps -- Replacement for getty
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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?)
* fwtk -- TIS firewall toolkit
* gpc -- GNU Pascal Compiler
* 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)
* mailcrypt -- Emacs lisp interface to PGP and anonymous remailers
* mathpad -- Mathematically oriented document preparation
* pash -- a full screen shell for Unix (contrib)
* ppd-adobe -- Adobe's PostScript Printer Description files
(non-free)
* splay -- MPEG-3 audio player (contrib)
* term -- a serial-line multiplexer
* wnorwegian -- The norwegian dictionary words for /usr/dict
(non-free)
* xarchie -- X11 browser interface to archie (non-free)
* 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 J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* lesstif -- Hungry Programmers' version of OSF/Motif.
Maintaining the package itself is not difficult - the packaging is
reasonably straightforward. The difficulty with this package lies
in the fact that LessTif still suffers from many bugs (e.g. a
memory leak showing up with xmcd, locking up X with nedit and DDD)
and some missing features. 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 Rob Browning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* libident -- a simple RFC1413 client library
* scm -- A Scheme language interpreter
* slib -- Portable Scheme library
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)
* icmake -- Intelligent C-like MAKEr, or the ICce MAKE utility
* ntfs -- A driver for the Windows NT file system
* umsdos -- UMSDOS file system utilities
* xftp -- Athena X interface to ftp
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)
* automount -- Automatically mount inserted CDs and floppy disks
(experimental)
* berolist -- Easy-to-use, easy-to-install mailing list server
* debsums -- Tools to handle md5sums for installed packages
* dhcp, dhcp-beta, dhcp-client-beta, dhcp-relay-beta -- DHCP
automatic IP address assignment
* floppybackup -- Floppy backup using a diversity of floppy formats
* frad -- Frame Relay Tools for DLCI/SDLA Drivers in 2.0/2.1 kernels
* fvwm95 -- Win95 lookalike Window Manager for X
* jail -- Just another ICMP Logger
* jered -- Simple C/C++ text editor with color
* le -- Text Editor with block and binary operations
* mserver -- Network Modem Server
* mtr -- Matt's Traceroute
* ncsa -- Small featureless NCSA Webserver
* optimizer -- Assembler Code optimizer for MMX, PPro and Pentium
(non-free)
* poppassd -- Password change server for Eudora and NUPOP
* pptp-linux -- PPTP Microsoft Compatible Tunneling Protocol
* sftp -- Small ftp client with amazing features
* sharefont -- Shareware font selection for X11 (non-free)
* smb-nat -- SMB Network Analysis Tool
* xfstt -- TrueType Font Server for X11
* xskat -- Skat as defined by the official german Skatordnung
* zed -- powerful, multipurpose, configurable Text Editor
* 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 Ed Petron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set (PCCTS)
By Leland Olds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* YADE -- Yet Another Diagram Editor
By Jim Pick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* [5]mico ORB
By Anselm Lingnau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* tclhttpd -- TCL-based webserver
By Shaleh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* [6]The enlightenment window manager
By Erik Andersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* [7]Willows TWIN
By Jean Pierre LeJacq ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* printop -- lprng GUI
By Alexander Lazarevic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* squeak -- implementation of Smalltalk
By Stuart Lamble ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* [8]Modula-3
By Igor Grobman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* (x)battleball -- 3D soccer game
By Brian Bassett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* Caldera COAS
By Joel Klecker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* zile -- an emacs-like editor
By Darren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* giftool
By Brian Sulcer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* vile (vi-like editor)
* rogue
* umoria
By Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* vtwm -- Virtual Window Manager for X11
* 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
* Nocol -- network admin/monitoring
By Vincent Renardias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* FWF (Free Widget Foundation) -- A pretty good set of graphic
widgets
* [9]Aero -- A Physically Based Simulation and Animation System
By Klee Dienes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* NIST's POSIX validation suite
By Yoshiaki Yanagihara ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* japanese packages -- mule, canna, Japanese Extended less
By Boris D. Beletsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* MIT scheme
* Scheme->C
* [10]Freedom Desktop
By Christian Leutloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* newtonlink
* dtdparse
By Todd Graham Lewis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* Kerberos V (crypto) (non-US maintainer still needed)
* socks
By Kai Henningsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* sather
By John Goerzen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* WorldVU-Atlantis BBS package
* midiplay (MIDI player)
By Tristan McCann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* Linux phone
By Martin Alonso Soto Jacome ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* [11]jazz midi sequencer
By Christian Meder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* [12]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]):
* [13]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 Will Lowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* clisp
By Stephan Suerken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* uae
* gom
* xpcd
By Brian S. Julin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* hypernews
By Robert Resendes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* [14]omniORB
By Ole Jørgen Tetlie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* battalion
By Jean Pierre LeJacq ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* crack
* cracklib
By Federico Di Gregorio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* reiserfs
By James R. Van Zandt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* emacsspeak-bs
* emacsspeak-ap
* emacsspeak-ac
* emacsspeak-xx
By David Damerell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* mangband
By Gregor Hoffleit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* gstep-make
* gstep-gui
* gstep-xdps
* gstep-db
* dgs
* cakit
* ockit
* objc
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 Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* xtrs -- TRS-80 emulator
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
* 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
* [15]ACE -- (a free C++ library)
* [16]FPK pascal
* [17]GNU Nana -- improved support for assertions and logging in C
and C++.
* [18]qddb -- a relational database.
Graphics
* Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system,
Dore'.
X11
* The LGPL-ed GUI library [19]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
* [20]mergemem
* grok -- database with many functions
* xidle
Networking and Communication
* ftptool
* [21]Speakerphone/Answering Machine for USR and Rockwell Modems
* [22]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.
Text utilities
* HTML editors (tkHTML, auc-html.el)
* [23]Virtual Paper
Misc
* [24]sfio -- C library stdio replacement
* [25]Artificial Life Programs
* [26]Acmaint -- user administration tool
* [27]hpack -- non-us archiver
* [28]rar -- shareware archiver
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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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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://diamant-atm.vsb.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~mico/
6. http://www.enlightenment.org/
7. http://www.willows.com/
8. http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/home.html
9. http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/bv/aero/
10. ftp://fsw.com/pub/fdlite/FDlite1.32.tar.gz
11. http://rokke.grm.hia.no/per/jazz.html
12. http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~cube
13. ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs
14. http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html
15. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
16. http://sun01.brain.uni-freiburg.de/%7Eklaus/fpk-pas/
17. http://wattle.cs.ntu.edu.au/homepages/pjm/nana-home/
18. ftp://ftp.hsdi.com/pub/qddb/sources/
19. http://www.cinenet.net/users/spitzak/fltk/
20. http://www.mondoshawan.ml.org/mergemem/
21. http://www.mindspring.com/~bnaylor/spk/
22. ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/SSLapps/
23. http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/
24. http://www.oasis.leo.org/perl/src/independent/sfio.dsc.html
25. http://alife.santafe.edu/
26. ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/ACMAINT/
27. http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/public/computing/archiving/compress/hpack/
28. http://www.zetnet.co.uk/RAR.T-Mail/
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