Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.70 1998/02/09 23:38:47 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 1.69 1998/02/02 o Ed Petron <> is working on the Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set (PCCTS). o Leland Olds <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on YADE (Yet Another Diagram Editor). o Jim Pick <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on the mico ORB <http://diamant-atm.vsb.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~mico/>. o Added sfio <http://www.oasis.leo.org/perl/src/independent/sfio.dsc.html> (a C library stdio replacement) and FPK pascal <http://sun01.brain.uni- freiburg.de/%7Eklaus/fpk-pas/>, GNU Nana <http://wattle.cs.ntu.edu.au/homepages/pjm/nana-home/>, and gddb to packages someone should make. 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. Patrick Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o cfs (non-us) o saytime o sigrot o sniffit Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o cfengine o zyxel 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 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 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 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. J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lesstif. Maintaining the package itself is not difficult - the packaging is reasonably straight-forward. 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. Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o libident o scm o slib 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 dhcp-client-beta o dhcp-relay-beta o frad o pptp-linux o mtr o wanpipe (Tools for kernel WAN functionality) o zed (editor) o adpkg o berolist o bonnie o debsums o defrag o floppybackup o fvwm95 o gpc o gpc-doc o isite o jail o jered o le o libgpc2 o mserver o nat o ncsa o omirr o optimizer o pash o poppassd o sftp o sharefont o smb-nat 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. Ed Petron [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set (PCCTS) Leland Olds [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o YADE (Yet Another Diagram Editor) Jim Pick [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mico ORB <http://diamant-atm.vsb.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~mico/> Luis Francisco Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ElectricEyes <http://www.labs.redhat.com/ee.shtml> Anselm Lingnau [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tclhttpd (a TCL-based WWW server) Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Enlightenment <http://www.enlightenment.org/> Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Willows TWIN <http://www.willows.com/> Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o printop (lprng GUI) Alexander Lazarevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o squeak (implementation of Smalltalk) 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 ) 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 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) o FPK pascal <http://sun01.brain.uni-freiburg.de/%7Eklaus/fpk-pas/> o GNU Nana <http://wattle.cs.ntu.edu.au/homepages/pjm/nana-home/>: improved support for assertions and logging in C and C++. o qddb <ftp://ftp.hsdi.com/pub/qddb/sources/>, a relational database. 6.2. Graphics: o Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system, Dore'. 6.3. X11: o The LGPL-ed GUI library fltk <http://www.cinenet.net/users/spitzak/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. o Andrew o mergemem <http://www.mondoshawan.ml.org/mergemem/> o grok (database with many functions) o xidle 6.4. 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) 6.5. Text utilities o HTML editors (tkHTML, auc-html.el) o Virtual Paper <http://www.research.digital.com:80/SRC/virtualpaper/> 6.6. Misc o sfio <http://www.oasis.leo.org/perl/src/independent/sfio.dsc.html> (C library stdio replacement) o Artificial Life Programs ( http://alife.santafe.edu ) o Acmaint <ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/ACMAINT/> (User administration tool) o hpack <http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/public/computing/archiving/compress/hpack/> (non-us archiver) o rar <http://www.zetnet.co.uk/RAR.T-Mail/> (shareware archiver) 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 1.68 1998/01/26 o Christophe Le Bars <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted hylafax. o Aaron Howell <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted tama. o hpack <http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/public/computing/archiving/compress/hpack/> and rar <http://www.zetnet.co.uk/RAR.T-Mail/> archivers added to packages which need debianization. o Federico Di Gregorio <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted freefont. o Anselm Lingnau <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on tclhttpd (a TCL-based WWW server). o Luis Francisco Gonzalez <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on gdl_imlib and ElectricEyes <http://www.labs.redhat.com/ee.shtml>. o Lesstif added to packages needing a new maintainer. o More Christoph Lamter <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> packages are available for adoption: zed, wanpipe, frad, dhcp-client-beta, dhcp- relay-beta, pptp-linux, and mtr. 8.2. Since version 1.67 1998/01/19 o The cfengine, saytime, sigrot, sniffit, and cfs packages are now orphaned. o The Enlightenment <http://www.enlightenment.org/> window manager is being worked on by Shaleh <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o The libident, scm, and slib packages need a new maintainer; contact Rob Browning <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Erik Andersen <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is now working on Willows TWIN <http://www.willows.com>, the multi-platform windows emulator. o Added mention that fltk <http://www.cinenet.net/users/spitzak/fltk/> needs to be packaged, to replace the non-free XForms library. And mergemem <http://www.mondoshawan.ml.org/mergemem/>, which reduces application memory usage. o The C libraries have been adopted by Dale Scheetz <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Jean Pierre LeJacq <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on printop, a tcl/tk GUI for lprng. o Adam Klein <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has adopted ncompress. o Alexander Lazarevic <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on squeak, an implementation of Smalltalk. o The hsc package has been uploaded. 8.3. 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]>. 8.4. 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. 8.5. 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. 8.6. 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. 8.7. 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. 8.8. 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. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . 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