Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.47 1997/07/07 06:08:32 phil Exp $

1.  Note

I've taken over the maintenance of the "Work-Needing and Prospective
Packages for Debian GNU/Linux" from Sven Rudolph starting version 1.44
of this document.  I've incorporated a lot of changes since. Please
notify me of any errors.

2.  General Questions

2.1.  Before reading this document

You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ
<http://www.debian.org/FAQ/>.

2.2.  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.

2.3.  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>

2.4.  Feedback

Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Philippe
Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Please mention to which version of this document
your comments refer.

3.  Orphaned packages

(An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.)

Please inform me 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.

Orn E. Hansen :

o  dialdcost

o  hextype

o  speak-freely

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

llucius [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  dialog

Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  arpd

o  cflow

o  csh

o  lsof

o  open

o  ptx

o  spell

o  sysnews

o  vlock

Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  zyxel

Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  j1 (in old source format)

o  sam (in old source format)

o  ucbmpeg (in old source format)

o  ucbmpegplay (in old source format)

Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  ipx

o  nas

o  ncpfs

Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  mh-papers

o  term

o  witalian

o  pari, paridoc

o  wnorwegian

Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  xosview (probably to be abandonned)

Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  apsfilter

Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  elisp-manual

o  emacs-lisp-intro

o  giftrans

o  idutch

o  mathpad

o  mfbasfnt

o  wdutch

o  wenglish

Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  statserial

o  xarchie

o  bibindex

J.A.vanderMost [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  dmalloc

Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  opie

Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  fsp

o  lyx

Patrick Weemeeuw [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  tripwire

Larry 'Daffy' Daffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  xscreensaver

Guy R. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  dld (do we still need this ?)

Patrick J Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  mailpgp

Dermot Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  radiusd-merit

Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  vrweb

Volker Ossenkopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  workman

Others:

o  xcompat (should we drop it ?)

o  libc4 (a.out compatibility)

4.  Packages needing a new maintainer

Please inform me via e-mail:

o  when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package

Please inform the mainatiner of the package:

o  when you would like to maintain one of the packages.

Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  chimera (should be upgraded to v1.70)

o  enscript

o  seyon

o  lpr

o  rcs

o  xonix

o  xpat2

o  xsok

Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  xarclock

o  lha

o  dosfstools

o  sendfile

Joe Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  lxtools

Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  ncsa (new Webstandards need to be implemented)

o  genromfs

o  bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X)

o  berolist

o  adbbs (needs a better setup of pre-customized files)

o  gpc

o  libgpc2

o  gpc-doc

o  verse

o  freefont

o  fdos

o  sharefont

o  newsx

o  syslinux

o  pash

o  zmailer

o  isite

o  knfs

o  poppassd

o  transproxy

o  loadlin

o  freetype

o  omir

o  komirr

o  worklog

o  mserver

Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  sysutils

Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  dvi2tty

o  hyperlatex

o  info2www

o  latex2rtf

o  mysql

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

Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  html2latex

o  icmake

o  ntfs

o  xftp

Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  bin86

o  libpaper

o  axe

o  es

o  pixmap

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.

[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  gabriel - detects SATAN scans

o  drone - automatically runs batch jobs of simultion 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

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, kon, kterm, canna, Japanese Extended less)

Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  MIT scheme

o  Freedom Desktop <ftp://fsw.com/pub/fdlite/FDlite1.32.tar.gz>

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

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  jazz midi sequencer <http://rokke.grm.hia.no/per/jazz.html>

Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  MuPAD

Andy Mortimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  TinyMUSH

Larry Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  hypernews

Lalo Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

o  djgpp

o  enlightenment

o  enlighthemes

o  imlib

o  rxvt-imlib

o  eterm

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, send me an e-mail.

6.1.  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  omniORB <http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html>

6.2.  USENET news software:

o  strn.

6.3.  Graphics:

o  Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system,
   Dore'.

6.4.  Games:

o  rocks and diamonds

o  xgammon

6.5.  X11:

o  Andrew

o  grok (database with many functions)

o  xidle

6.6.  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  mars_nwe <ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs> (Netware server )

6.7.  Text utilities

o  HTML editors (tkHTML, auc-html.el)

o  Virtual Paper
   <http://www.research.digital.com:80/SRC/virtualpaper/>

o  JADE <http://www.jclark.com/jade/>

6.8.  Misc

o  Artificial Life Programs ( http://alife.santafe.edu )

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.

o  A Debian administration tool. If possible with text frontend, web
   frontend and x11 frontend.




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