Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.21 1996/08/26 20:29:54 sr1 Exp sr1 $
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WWW server is at http://www.debian.org/ , the FAQ is located at http://www.debian.org/FAQ/ (This copy might be out of date). 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. 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 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. previously maintained by Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o acm o aout-librl (this package might be unnecessary now) o pmake previously maintained by DJ Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o biff o cdtool o unclutter o workbone o xwpe others : o elm o ifrench, igerman 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. currently maintained by Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o seyon currently maintained by Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o tgif o xarchie currently maintained by Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o pari currently maintained by Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aachen.DE : o xsysinfo o xcolors o xautolock currently maintained by Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o aout-svgalib o svgalib1 o svgalib1-bin o svgalib1-dev currently maintained by Andrew D. Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o acs 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] : o dome (http://www.netaxs.com/ cjf/jpegs.html) o and probably : xli, Tix, povray [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl R. Sackett) : o CLX - Common Lisp Xlib implementation o PCL - Portable Common Loops for GCL Richard Kaszeta [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xmotd Mike Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mule Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xbill o LPRng "behan (b.) 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 mew, giftool [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o BBDB (for Emacs: Big Brother Data Base, a rolodex with hooks into VM, GNUS, and RMAIL) 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 Karl R. Sackett [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o libXg - UTF-2 fonts for Sam and 9term 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 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 koules o xbomb Alan Bain [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o gpc (GNU Pascal) Ed Petron [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tkps (tk-based "top") 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 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) Lee Olds [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Qt Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o qmail Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o smartlist Tim Cutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o exim (a mail transfer agent, ftp://cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/exim) 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: 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 ) 5.2. USENET news software: o strn. 5.3. Math packages: o SC (the spreadsheet). (oleo is already available) o SciLab 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 ) 5.4. Graphics: o Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system, Dore'. 5.5. Misc Tools: o binhex 5.6. Editors: o NEdit ( http://fnpspa.fnal.gov/nirvana/nedit.html , requires Motif) o jed (small emacs-like) 5.7. Games: o rocks and diamonds o xgalaga (space-invaders style game) o xibc (backgammon) o xevil o xjewel o xgammon 5.8. X11: o Andrew o plan (calender with many functions) o grok (database with many functions) o xmem o xidle o xmcd (ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmcd/xmcd-2.0.README) o olvwm 5.9. Communication o BBS (Bulletin Board System) Software o hylafax (http://www.vix.com/hylafax) a fax server with add-ons for alphanumeric paging 5.10. TeX o tmview (svgalib DVI viewer) Kpathsea support should be added and the original author is already aware of this. Contact him first. 5.11. 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 5.12. System Tools o IBCS2 emulator 5.13. Text utilities o HTML editors (tkHTML, asWedit, auc-html.el) o mpage (GNU enscript is already available) o texi2html 6. 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/
