Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.64 1997/12/29 23:13:55 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 1.63 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. 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. Emilio Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ratfor77 (old source format) o ftnchek Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o majordomo Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o kde o giflib Dominik Kubla o vgrind Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o blt Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o auctex o ghostview o lacheck (libc5) 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 procps o xproc o xxgdb Orn E. Hansen : 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 Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o arpd o csh Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o zyxel Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o j1 (in old source format) o sam Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 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 Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o pgcc 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 Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o file-rc 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 freelip o groupkit o imgstar o lee o objpak o pgapack o premail o saoimage o snns o tcs o tkdiff 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. Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o seyon o lpr Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o adbbs o adpkg o autofs o berolist o bonnie o bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X) o chris-cust 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 knfs 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 suidmanager o transproxy o xfstt o xskat o zmailer Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lurkftp o htdig Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ftplib 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. Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xbattleball Frederic Lepied [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xmbdfed Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o synaethesia (cd player with graphical effects) Brian Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Caldera COAS Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o zile (an emacs-like editor) Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tkman Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o battleball (3D soccer game) Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o R (statistical analysis package) Juergen Menden [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dialdcost Francesco Tapparo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o gnome 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 Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o pppload Robert Resendes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o omniORB <http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html> Anselm Lingnau [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o abc2ps o abcmidi Ole Jrgen Tetlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o battalion Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o crack o cracklib Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sidplay 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 James A.Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o siag - extensible spreadsheet program. 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 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) 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 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 1.62 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. 8.2. 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. 8.3. 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 <[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]>. 8.4. 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 8.5. 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 <[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 8.6. 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). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . 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