Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.32 1996/12/28 14:05:15 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. orphaned : o binutils o libc4, aout-binutils, aout-gcc (stone-age compatibility packages) David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o libc5, libc6 (potentially a lot of work) Andrew D. Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o acs DJ Gregor [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xwpe Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o tgif o xarchie Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o adjtimex o fdutils o hkgerman o html2latex o icmake o lshell o metamail o ntfs o umsdos o watchdog o xftp 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 Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o netpbm o xless o xpaste Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o seyon Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sokoban Andrew Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xtron Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o kbd o vlock o ssh (ITAR restricted, needs US maintainer) Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o abuse o apsfilter Yves Arrouye : o apache o cgi-scripts o compress-package o libpaper o mush o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools o xaw95 Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o e2fsprogs o ipx o ncpfs Joe Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lxtools Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o glibcdoc o hyperlatex o id-utils o elisp-manual o emacs-lisp-intro o mathpad o dlh o wenglish o wdutch o idutch Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o adbbs (needs a better setup of pre-customized files) o defrag (needs a major Revision of the sourcecode and made available for other architectures than i386) o linux86 (contains lots of 8086 stuff that need work) o ibcs o speak_freely o ncsa (new Webstandards need to be implemented) o man2html o gpc o upsd o idled o autolog o snarf o syslinux 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 [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 xephem - interactive astronomical ephemeris program for X o empire - Wolfpack Empire war simulation o togl - a Tk widget for OpenGL rendering o MIT Scheme - scheme interpreter o nanocad - a freeware CAD system for nanotechnology o WISE - WWW-based project management and metrics system o SLIB. Mike Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mule Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xbill Behan Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] o sxpc (Simple Xwindows Protocol Compresser) [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 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 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 Christophe Le Bars [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o MMM: a WWW browser implemented in Caml o doc-debian-fr Jon Rabone [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o SISCAD 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) Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o qmail (waiting for license change) Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o metapost (postscript generating language similar to metafont) o TeX packages o Linux Gazette 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 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/ ) o mySQL (mSQL like database, but completly freeware) Klee Dienes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xmcd (ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmcd/xmcd-2.0.README) o NIST's POSIX validation suite Yoshiaki Yanagihara [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o japanese packages (kon, kterm, canna, Japanese Extended less) Ian Main [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tkgoodstuff Lars Esbjerg Hoeg [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dotfile-gen 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 addressbook o Adobe Acrobat viewer o xmailbox o plan Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o genpower, an UPS monitoring package Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sather Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tv (Clone of Borland's Turbo Vision library) Lukas Nellen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o thttpd Milan Zamazal [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xfntil2 (ISO 8859-2 fonts for X) o xfntil2-nonfree (non-free ISO 8859-2 fonts for X) Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o scion o radiusd-merit-las o ttysnoop Loic Prylli [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o jove Fabien Ninoles [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o VRweb (vrml browser) 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!) 4.2. USENET news software: o strn. 4.3. Math packages: 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 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 btoa 4.6. Games: o rocks and diamonds o xibc (backgammon) o xevil o xgammon 4.7. X11: o Andrew o grok (database with many functions) o xidle o olvwm o xtoolplaces o installation wrapper for Starwriter (Starwriter requires Motif) 4.8. Communication o BBS (Bulletin Board System) Software 4.9. TeX o tmview (svgalib DVI viewer) Kpathsea support should be added and the original author is already aware of this. Contact him first. 4.10. Networking o other www servers (Spinner ( http://spinner.infovav.se/ )) o ftptool 4.11. Text utilities o HTML editors (tkHTML, auc-html.el) o Virtual Paper ( http://www.research.digital.com:80/SRC/virtualpaper/ ) 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]
