Changes against version 1.6 : - rpncalc, uutraf, magicfilter, dump, apache are now available - David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> will provide tkined / scotty - "Prud'homme Christophe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> will provide XEmacs - Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> will provide INN - Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> will provide mathpad - Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wants to give linuxdoc-sgml and adduser
----------------- Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux ========================================================== 1. General Questions 1.1. What is Debian GNU/Linux Please read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. The Debian GNU/Linux WWW server is at http://www.debian.org/ , the FAQ is located at http://www.debian.org/FAQ/ . The FAQ is available via FTP at ftp.debian.org:/debian/doc . 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. What do I need to know in order to become a package maintainer ? Please read the Maintainers FAQ, it is at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/standards/Maintainers-FAQ . (It is work-in-progress right now and is partially obsolete.) There is a draft of the packaging guidelines floating around. I will send you the current draft on request. You should subscribe to the debian-devel mailing list, details are given in the FAQ. 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. The Id of this version is : $Id: packages,v 1.7 1996/01/23 23:46:39 sr1 Exp $ 2. Package that have no current maintainer Packages listed in this section are still part of Debian (unless they have too many bugs), but the maintainer had reasons to not continue maintaining it. (Remember: Debian is mainly produced by volunteers who are not paid for maintaining Debian packages.) If you find that you need to discontinue maintaining a package, send me an e-mail. If you believe that the following list is incomplete, i.e., that there are other packages in the Debian distribution that currently have no active maintainer, send me an e-mail. If you would like to maintain one of the packages listed here, send me an e-mail. * ghostscript, gsfonts previously maintained by Ted Hajek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * elm \ * ircii \ previously maintained by * wenglish / Carl Streeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * unzip, zip / * strace * motifnls \ previously maintained by * e2fsprogs / "Andrew D. Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3. Packages that the maintainer wants to give away Packages listed in this section are still part of Debian, but the maintainer wants to find a new maintainer. It isn't as urgent to find a new maintainer as in the previous section. If you maintain Debian packages that you would like to hand off, send me an e-mail, then I will add this package to this section. If you would like to maintain one of the packages listed here, write to the current maintainer of this package. * seyon \ currently maintained by Sven Rudolph * linuxdoc-sgml > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * adduser / 4. 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]> : * dome (http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf/jpegs.html) * and probably : xli, Tix, povray "brian (b.c.) white" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : * wine [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl R. Sackett) : * CLX - Common Lisp Xlib implementation * PCL - Portable Common Loops for GCL * Mesa - 3-D graphics library Dale Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : * lclint (ftp://larch.lcs.mit.edu/pub/Larch/lclint/ ) Richard Kaszeta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : * xmotd * netscape Mike Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : * mule Fernando Alegre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : * mc Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : * xbill * NCSA Mosaic (waiting for 2.7) "behan (b.) webster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * sxpc (Simple Xwindows Protocol Compresser) * ncsa-httpd * qfax (multi-user e-mail extension to efax). CD Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: * xautolock * mdutils ( Utils for md, the linux RAID 0/1 driver ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * tkHTML Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : * netpbm,mew, figlet, giftool, weblint David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : * GNU recode David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : * tkined / scotty (tk-based network analysis) "Prud'homme Christophe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : * Xemacs Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : * INN (waiting for inn1.4unoff4) Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : * mathpad (almost WYSIWIG-Editor for LaTeX with build-in algebraic functions; http://www.win.tue.nl/win/cs/wp/mathspad/ ) 5. 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. 5.1. Programming and development: * GNU Pascal. * UPS - the X-based debugger. Probably not worth building until we've switched to ELF. (There are Linux-specific patches around.) * DDD - the Data Display Debugger ( http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd ) * checker * vgrind (formats source code for printing) * Scheme->C * SCM - Scheme interpreter which will soon be the basis of the GNU extension language. * SLIB. * CLISP - Common Lisp interpreter * ECoLisp - a Common Lisp compiler that produces faster code but isn't as widely used as GCL * CLiCC - Common Lisp compiler that generates stand-alone apps (rather large ones, though) * GNAT (GNU Ada Translator) 5.2. Mail software: * BBDB (for Emacs: Big Brother Data Base, a rolodex with hooks into VM, GNUS, and RMAIL) * tkmail * mailtool 5.3. USENET news software: * nn. * C News (as an alternative to INN) including NOV and NNTP. * strn. 5.4. Math packages: * SC (the spreadsheet). (oleo is already available) * GNU calc (see the Emacs list ...). * SNNS Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator (ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de) * SciLab * Yorick * MuPAD (computer algebra tool from University of Paderborn, Germany http://gauss-mb.uni-paderborn.de/~cube/ , please look at the license conditions.) * calctool * felt 5.5. Graphics: * SISCAD, a CADD package. ftp://hrz-ws26.hrz.uni-kassel.de/pub/machines/LINUX/misc/siscad * Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system, Dore'. * GIMP (The General Image Manipulation Program) http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~gimp 5.6. Misc Tools: * quota * zoo/unzoo (packer) * binhex 5.7. Editors: (none) 5.8. Games: * nethack * rocks and diamonds * xgalaga (space-invaders style game) * abuse * xibc (backgammon) * xevil * xjewel 5.9. X11: * Andrew * ImageMagick (image viewer) (This package would belong into the non-free section if it provides the creation of GIF files.) * XView (at least a library package--the full XView distribution, with window manager, etc. would also be nice, but not as important) * plan (calender with many functions) * grok (database with many functions) * tkps (tk-based "top") * xmem * xidle 5.10. Communication * BBS (Bulletin Board System) Software * hylafax (http://www.vix.com/hylafax) a fax server with add-ons for alphanumeric paging 5.11 TeX * tmview (svgalib DVI viewer) Kpathsea support should be added and the original author is already aware of this. Contact him first. 5.12 Networking * other www servers (Spinner ( http://spinner.infovav.se/ ), WN ( http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/docs/overview.html) ) * tkined / scotty (tk-based network analysis) * xinetd (replacement for inetd with many enhancements) * ftptool (This requires the not-yet-available XView libraries.) 5.13 System Tools * backup software (kbackup, taper, nbackup) Please note that there are plans for a Debian-specific backup tool ( http://www.access.digex.net/~dhs/debian/debian.html ). * apsfilter (a printing filter) (ftp://ftp-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/pkg/APSfilter ) (It is quite difficult to write a universal and easy configuration mechanism for these printing filters.) * IBCS2 emulator 5.14 Text utilities * HTML editors (tkHTML, asWedit, auc-html.el) * mpage (genscript is already available) 6. Programs that someone should write This section contains suggestions/wishes for programs. There is no known implementation of such a program for Linux. * 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. 7. Beyond packages This section lists some areas of future development of Debian that cannot be assigned to specific packages. Please note that you may need to know a lot about the specific topic and the current Debian architecture, so this probably shouldn't be your first Debian related contribution. * internationalization / localization * documentation and translations * Debian GNU/Linux for other platforms (m68k, alpha, sparc) * shadow passwords ( ftp://ftp.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/pub/linux/shadow/ ) (Previous versions didn't have a free-enough license, so Debian cannot use these.)
