Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.39 1997/05/02 14:16:29 sr1 Exp sr1 $
1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ ( http://www.debian.org/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/Documentation/Debian/packages.html> o <ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt> 1.4. 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. orphaned : o libc4 (a.out compatibility) David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o libc5, libc6 (potentially a lot of work) Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o tgif o xarchie Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o html2latex o icmake o lshell o ntfs o umsdos o xftp o xautolock Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o pmake Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mh-papers o term o witalian o pari, paridoc o wnorwegian Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o seyon o lpr Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xarclock o xdaliclock o lha o dosfstools o sendfile o uudeview o ssh (ITAR restricted, linked against rsaref, needs US maintainer) Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fsp o lyx Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o apsfilter Yves Arrouye : o compress-package o mush o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o e2fsprogs o ipx o nas o ncpfs Joe Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lxtools Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o glibcdoc o id-utils o mathpad o idutch o wdutch o wenglish Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o adbbs (needs a better setup of pre-customized files) o berolist o bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X) o defrag o freefont o genromfs o ircd o isite o loadlin o ncsa (new Webstandards need to be implemented) o netdiag o newsx o pash o poppassd o sharefont o syslinux o transproxy o upsd llucius [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dialog Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sysutils Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dvi2tty o hyperlatex o info2www o latex2rtf Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o opie Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o elvis Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ftplib o lde o libdnd1 o libdnd1-dev o macutils o mcvert o offix-clipboard o offix-editor o offix-execute o offix-files o offix-trash o xabacus o xfishtank o xgalaga o xmcpustate o xodo Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o rlpr 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. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl R. Sackett) : o swarm - Objective-C based artificial life research tool o GNU Smalltalk o utf-mailx: scripts to add UTF support to mailx. o SATAN - net security scanner o courtney - detects SATAN scans o gabriel - detects SATAN scans o drone - automatically runs batch jobs of simulation programs. o empire - Wolfpack Empire war simulation o togl - a Tk widget for OpenGL rendering o nanocad - a freeware CAD system for nanotechnology o WISE - WWW-based project management and metrics system Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o giftool 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. 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) Michael Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o nntplink 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) o MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) o Minivend (WWW-based catalogues) o PMConsole (Livingston's Portmaster admin tool) o Portmaster tools (pmwho, log analyzers, etc) 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, kon, kterm, canna, Japanese Extended less) Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ircd-dalnet (dalnet irc daemon) Christian Leutloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o newtl (accessing Apple Newton Messagepad) Todd Graham Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Kerberos ver. V (crypto) (non-US maintainer still needed) o socks Bill Bumgarner [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o GnuStep-related packages Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xmailbox Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o genpower, an UPS monitoring package Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sather Lukas Nellen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o thttpd Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o scion o sniffit o radiusd-merit-las o phpfi o xssi 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 wxwin ( http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/ ) o jazz midi sequencer ( http://rokke.grm.hia.no/per/jazz.html ) Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o flying (Pool billiards game) Milan Zamazal [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Stanford Graph Base Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o KDE Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o MuPAD o amanda o afbackup 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. (There are Linux-specific patches around.) o Scheme->C 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 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 DJGPP 4.2. USENET news software: o strn. 4.3. Math packages: o MuPAD (computer algebra tool from University of Paderborn, Germany http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/ cube/, please look at the license conditions.) o felt 4.4. Graphics: o Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system, Dore'. 4.5. Games: o rocks and diamonds o xgammon 4.6. X11: o Andrew o grok (database with many functions) o xidle 4.7. Networking/Communication o Roxen (WWW server, http://spinner.infovav.se/ ) o ftptool o Speakerphone/Answering Machine for USR and Rockwell Modems ( http://www.mindspring.com/ bnaylor/spk/ ) 4.8. Text utilities o HTML editors (tkHTML, auc-html.el) o Virtual Paper ( http://www.research.digital.com:80/SRC/virtualpaper/ ) 4.9. Misc o Artificial Life Programs ( http://alife.santafe.edu ) 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/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
