Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.25 1996/09/27 13:13:26 sr1 Exp sr1 $
1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ ( ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/FAQ/debian-faq.html ). 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. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. 2. Packages needing a new maintainer Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you need to discontinue maintaining a package o when you believe that the following list is incomplete o when you would like to maintain one of the packages listed here. David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o binutils o gcc o gdb o libc5, libc6 (potentially a lot of work) o libg++ o libc4, aout-binutils, aout-gcc (stone-age compatibility packages) Andrew D. Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o acs DJ Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o biff o cdtool o workbone o xwpe Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o aout-svgalib o svgalib1 o svgalib1-bin o svgalib1-dev Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o tgif o xarchie Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o adjtimex o fdutils o hkgerman o html2latex o metamail o modules o xautolock Dale Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lclint o mailx Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o acm o aout-librl (this package might be unnecessary now) o pmake Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o seyon Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sokoban Andrew Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xtron o tcsh o mandelspawn Alvar Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o groff o man 3. 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. Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dome (http://www.netaxs.com/ cjf/jpegs.html) o and probably : xli, Tix, povray [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl R. Sackett) : o FreeLIP - large integer package o GroupKit - development library for building realtime groupware apps o LEE - Latent Energy Environments artificial life simulator o rsaref - installer scripts for the RSAREF crypto library o swarm - Objective-C based artificial life research tool o premail - e-mail privacy package Richard Kaszeta [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xmotd Mike Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mule Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xbill o LPRng Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] o sxpc (Simple Xwindows Protocol Compresser) o qfax (multi-user e-mail extension to efax). [EMAIL PROTECTED]: o tkHTML Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o giftool o canna o lx-gdb Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o glimpsehttpd Warwick Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mercury (a purely declarative logic programming language with strong modes, strong types, and strong determinism) [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) ( http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/osf_dce/RFC/rfc86.0.txt ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o CLISP David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dbackup - A Debian-specific backup program. o lockstep - A program to keep various directory trees in sync. o uucpconfig - A configuration program which will become part of my uucp package. o latex2html Hakan Ardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o faces - visual list monitor 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 mutt: a new mailreader (ftp.infodrom.north.de:/pub/people/joey/debian/beta) Michael Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o amanda, the University of Maryland's free network backup system. o nntplink Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o spice (circuit simulation package) o gforth Billy Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xbomb Alan Bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o gpc (GNU Pascal) Christophe Le Bars [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Caml (A small, portable implementation of the ML language.) o Objective Caml: Caml dialect extended with a complete class-based object system o MMM: a WWW browser implemented in Caml Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED]> : o ppd-gs (a set of PPD files for my Ghostscript drivers) o btoa o povray Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o awk2c Jon Rabone [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o SISCAD Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ilisp (emacs interface to a number of lisp systems) o calc (emacs calculator package) 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) Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o qmail (waiting for license change) Tim Cutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o exim (a mail transfer agent, ftp://cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/exim) Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o isdnutils (utility programs necessary for Isdn4Linux) o metapost (postscript generating language similar to metafont) o penguin (a module/framework for implementing safely distributable perl code (applets, agents, etc.)) o libio-perl (Perl5 IO module) o libsafe-perl (Perl5 Safe module) Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tracker Dermot Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Merit Radius o Hylafax o Umich LDAP o Nocol (network admin/monitoring) Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o SciLab 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 xmcd (ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmcd/xmcd-2.0.README) Volker Ossenkopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xvmount o workman o bplay Yoshiaki Yanagihara [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o japanese packages (kterm, canna, Japanese Extended less) 4. 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. 4.1. Programming and development: o UPS - the X-based debugger. Probably not worth building until we've switched to ELF. (There are Linux-specific patches around.) o checker o Scheme->C o SCM - Scheme interpreter which will soon be the basis of the GNU extension language. o SLIB. o CLISP - Common Lisp interpreter 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 Modula-3 ( http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/srcm3.html ) o CLX - Common Lisp Xlib implementation o PCL - Portable Common Loops for GCL o Cross-compilation environments for alpha, m68k, SPARC 4.2. USENET news software: o strn. 4.3. Math packages: o SC (the spreadsheet). (oleo is already available) o Yorick o MuPAD (computer algebra tool from University of Paderborn, Germany http://gauss-mb.uni-paderborn.de/ cube/ , please look at the license conditions.) o calctool o felt o LAPACK and BLAS (numerical libraries, http://nils.wustl.edu/schiotz/lapack-linux.html ) 4.4. Graphics: o Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system, Dore'. 4.5. Misc Tools: o binhex 4.6. Editors: o NEdit ( http://fnpspa.fnal.gov/nirvana/nedit.html , requires Motif) 4.7. Games: o rocks and diamonds o xibc (backgammon) o xevil o xgammon 4.8. X11: o Andrew o plan (calender with many functions) o grok (database with many functions) o xidle o olvwm 4.9. Communication o BBS (Bulletin Board System) Software 4.10. TeX o tmview (svgalib DVI viewer) Kpathsea support should be added and the original author is already aware of this. Contact him first. 4.11. Networking o other www servers (Spinner ( http://spinner.infovav.se/ ), WN ( http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/docs/overview.html) ) o xinetd (replacement for inetd with many enhancements) o ftptool 4.12. System Tools o IBCS2 emulator 4.13. Text utilities o HTML editors (tkHTML, asWedit, auc-html.el) o mpage (GNU enscript is already available) o texi2html o Adobe Acrobat viewer 5. 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. -- Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/
