I added an extra section for orphaned packages. It might be
incomplete.
Sven
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Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.42 1997/05/29 21:58:50 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. (An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.)
Orphaned packages
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.
orphaned :
o libc4 (a.out compatibility)
Orn E. Hansen :
o dialdcost
o hextype
o speak-freely
o xega
o xmailtool
o xspread
Yves Arrouye :
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
3. 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.
Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
o statserial
o xarchie
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
o html2latex
o icmake
o ntfs
o umsdos
o xftp
o xautolock
Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
o mh-papers
o term
o witalian
o pari, paridoc
o wnorwegian
Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
o enscript
o seyon
o lpr
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
o xarclock
o xdaliclock
o lha
o dosfstools
o sendfile
o uudeview
Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
o fsp
o lyx
Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
o apsfilter
Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
o e2fsprogs
o ipx
o nas
o ncpfs
Joe Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
o lxtools
Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
o glibcdoc (will be replaced by libc6-doc)
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 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
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
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
o mgetty
Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
o zyxel
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.
[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)
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
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 flying (Pool billiards game)
Milan Zamazal [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
o Stanford Graph Base
Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
o MuPAD
o amanda
Andy Mortimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
o TinyMUSH
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. (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
o omniORB ( http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html )
5.2. USENET news software:
o strn.
5.3. Graphics:
o Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system,
Dore'.
5.4. Games:
o rocks and diamonds
o xgammon
5.5. X11:
o Andrew
o grok (database with many functions)
o xidle
5.6. 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/ )
o mars_nwe (Netware server, ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs )
5.7. 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/>
5.8. Misc
o Artificial Life Programs ( http://alife.santafe.edu )
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.
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