Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Philippe Troin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.57 1997/10/06 09:59:38 phil Exp $
1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ <http://www.debian.org/doc/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/doc/prospective-packages.html> o <ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt> o <ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.html> o <ftp://ftp.fifi.org/pub/debian-local/WNPP/> 1.4. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're talking about, it makes it easier for me to sort out all "Re: Work- Needing and Prospective Packages" emails I get. A suggested subject line reads "WNPP: removing foopackage" or "WNPP: working on barpackage". Thanks. 2. Changes 2.1. Since version 1.56 1997/09/08 o General cleanup of orphans package (no visible changes). o Started probing for people who claimed they wanted to take over a package and never did it. o Fixed a bad url. o Removed cam from "packages someone is working on", uploaded. o Restored majordomo in "packages needing a new maintainer" (new maintainer renounced). o Removed hpcdtoppm from "packages someone is working on" and added gom instead (gom supercedes hpcdtoppm). o Gpc, libgpc2 and gpc-doc taken over by Paul J. Thompson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and removed. o Gs, gsfonts, gs-aladdin and libpaper taken over by Marco Pistore <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and removed. o Ucbmpeg and ucbmpeg-play taken over by Johnie Ingram <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and removed. o Xmorph uploaded and removed from "packages someone is working on". o Added bzip2 to "packages someone should package" section. o Vrweb taken over by Larry Gilbert <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Orphaned guavac, javalex, java-cup and rsynth. o Wnorwegian taken over by Ole Jrgen Tetlie <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Jean Pierre LeJacq <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on crack and cracklib. o Xfig and transfig taken over by Enrique Zanardi <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Isite, linuxlogo, loadlin, ncsa, omir, pash, poppassd, syslinux, transproxy, worklog taken over by a mysterious Ben (ask Christoph Lameter <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). o Added autofs, floppybackup, jered, nat, optimizer, sftp, ssmtp to "packages to give away". o Enrique Zanardi <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on xmgr. o Added addressbook as package to give away. o Xfmail uploaded and removed from "packages someone is working on". o offix-clipboard, offix-editor, offix-execute, offix-files, offix- trash taken over by James LewisMoss <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Removed the packages Karl Sackett was working on (leaving the project). o 2.2. Since version 1.55 1997/08/25 o Fixed a typo in PVM (was PVW). o Removed xgammon from "packages someone is working on" (uploaded to master). o Removed xpat2 and xsok from "packages needing a new maintainer" (new maintainer is Joel Rosdahl <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Cflow taken over by Ioannis Tambouras <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Majordomo taken over by Andy Kahn USG <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Changed the email for Drake Diedrich to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] o Orphaned tcl74, tk40, tcl75, tk41, tclx74, tclx75, tix40. o Added abc2ps and abcmidi in "packages someone is working on". o Added battalion to "packages someone is working on" and moved "rocks and diamonds" to it (used to be in the needed packages section). o Xfishtank and xgalaga taken over by Joey Hess <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. 2.3. Since version 1.54 1997/08/18 o Removed asp from "packages someone is working on" (uploaded). o Orphaned tkman. o Bin86 taken over by Juan Cespedes <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Orphaned pgcc. o Added majordomo to "packages needing a new maintainer". o Removed smalleiffel from "packages someone is working on". o Deliver taken over by Scott K. Ellis <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o newsx taken over by Adrian Bridgett <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Added pppload and trafshow in "packages someone is working on". o OmniORB (preivously listed in wanted packages) is being worked on. o Figlet taken over by Francesco Tapparo <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Added xfmail to "packages someone is working on". 2.4. Since version 1.53 1997/08/11 o Fixed address for Will Lowe to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] o Fixed address for Hamish Moffatt to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] o Removed JADE from packages not yet available (already packagedin hamm). o Added asp to "packages someone is working on". o Speak-freely taken over by Dave Restall <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Hypernews is being packaged by Brian S. Julin <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> instead of Larry Gilbert <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Added hypermail to "packages needing a new maintainer". o Orphaned file-rc. 2.5. Since version 1.52 Version 1.52 has not been released. 2.6. Since version 1.51 1997/08/04 o Tripwire taken over by Michael Meskes <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Changed Michael Meskes address. o Fixed a typo in smalleiffel. o Added isdnutils to "packages needing a new maintainer". o Removed vlock and genromfs, taken over by Juan Cespedes <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Added uae, hpcdtoppm, and xpcd as packages under development. o Added rc to orphans. o Added pstoedit, wm2, gnuplot, gs, gs-aladdin, gsfonts, screen, transfig, and xfig to "packages needing a new maintainer". o Added libkde0, libkde0-dev, and kdeapps as orphans. o Removed dialog, taken by Bill Mitchell <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Removed opustex from work-under-progress. o Removed freetype, taken over by Anthony Fok <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Added a blurb about email subjects. o Es taken over by James Troup. o Dip and sliplogin tken by Fabrizio Polacco <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. o Added fidogate in "packages someone is working on". o Maelstrom and hextype taken by Richard Braakman <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. 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 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 Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o arpd o csh o ptx o spell Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o zyxel Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o j1 (in old source format) o sam (in old source format) Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o nas Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mh-papers o term o witalian o pari, paridoc Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xosview (probably to be abandonned) Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o apsfilter Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : 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 o pgcc Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fsp 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 Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o figfonts o hfsutils o motifnls o sox Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o libkde0 o libkde0-dev o kdeapps Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o file-rc David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tcl74 o tcl75 o tk40 o tk41 o tkman Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tclx74 o tclx75 o tix40 Michael Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o guavac o javalex o java-cup o rsynth Karl Sackett [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o 9fonts o 9menu o 9term o 9wm o courtney o freeciv o freelip o gcl o gclinfo o glut o groupkit o imgstar o lee o libtclobjc o mesa o mimedecode o objpak o pgapack o premail o saoimage o snns o swisswatch o tcs o tkdiff o wily o xbattle o xconq o xephem-smotif o xpostitplus Others: o rc 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 xonix Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xarclock o lha Joe Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lxtools Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o adbbs o autofs o automount o bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X) o defrag o floppybackup o freefont o sharefont o jered o mserver o nat o optimizer o sftp o ssmtp o zmailer o berolist o verse o fdos o knfs o komirr o ircd 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 xabacus o xmcpustate o xodo Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o html2latex o icmake o ntfs o xftp Joost Witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o axe o pixmap o pstoedit o wm2 o gnuplot o screen Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o flin Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o isdnutils Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o hypermail Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o majordomo Hakan Ardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o addressbook 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. 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 Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sather Lukas Nellen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o thttpd 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 Lalo Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o djgpp o enlightenment o enlighthemes o imlib o rxvt-imlib o eterm Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o perl5 programming (documentation) o Using SGML - basic concepts (documentation) o Understanding and writing SGML DTDs (documentation) Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o atp (text to postscript converter) o cam (ncurses based mixer for sound cards) o mars_nwe <ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs> (Netware server ) Mark Mickan [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o hylafax Marco Budde [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o HTML version of Matt Welsh's "Installation & Getting Started" o fidogate Drake Diedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o PVM o DQS Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o UPS - the X-based debugger. (There are Linux-specific patches around.) o GSpreview Peter Tonoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o terroid Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xbat Juan Cespedes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xzx Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o clisp Stephan Suerken [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o uae o gom o xpcd Brian S. Julin [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o hypernews Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o pppload o trafshow Robert Resendes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o omniORB <http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html> Anselm Lingnau [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o abc2ps o abcmidi Ole Jrgen Tetlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o rocks and diamonds o battalion Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o crack o cracklib Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xmgr 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 Scheme->C 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 ACE <http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html> (a free C++ library) 6.2. USENET news software: o strn. 6.3. Graphics: o Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system, Dore'. 6.4. X11: o Andrew o grok (database with many functions) o xidle o linux explorer (a file manager a la windows explorer) Linux Explorer <http://jungfrau.ptf.hro.nl/explorer> 6.5. 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 AX25 software o multicast (MBONE) 6.6. Text utilities o HTML editors (tkHTML, auc-html.el) o Virtual Paper <http://www.research.digital.com:80/SRC/virtualpaper/> o agrep <ftp://ftp.cs.arizona.edu/agrep> 6.7. Misc o Artificial Life Programs ( http://alife.santafe.edu ) o Acmaint <ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/ACMAINT/> (User administration tool) o bzip2 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. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
