FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
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- Subject: FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
- From: Sven Rudolph <sr1@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
- Date: 27 May 1997 17:25:05 +0200
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Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Sven Rudolph, sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de
$Id: packages.sgml,v 1.41 1997/05/27 15:20:33 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 sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de. 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 libc4 (a.out compatibility)
Christian Linhart chris@cosy.sbg.ac.at :
o statserial
o tgif
o xarchie
Michael Meskes meskes@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE :
o html2latex
o icmake
o lshell
o ntfs
o umsdos
o xftp
o xautolock
Ian Murdock imurdock@debian.org :
o pmake
Jim Robinson jimr@simons-rock.edu :
o mh-papers
o term
o witalian
o pari, paridoc
o wnorwegian
Sven Rudolph sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de :
o seyon
o lpr
Martin Schulze joey@infodrom.north.de :
o xarclock
o xdaliclock
o lha
o dosfstools
o sendfile
o uudeview
new
o ssh (ITAR restricted, linked against rsaref, needs US maintainer)
Stuart Lamble lamble@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au :
o fsp
o lyx
Doug Geiger runexe@ntplx.net :
o apsfilter
Yves Arrouye :
o compress-package
o mush
o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs
o psptools
Michael Nonweiler mrn20@cam.ac.uk :
o e2fsprogs
o ipx
o nas
o ncpfs
Joe Kirby kirby@utk.edu :
o lxtools
Erick Branderhorst branderh@debian.IAEhv.nl :
o glibcdoc (will be replaced by libc6-doc)
o id-utils
o mathpad
o idutch
o wdutch
o wenglish
Christoph Lameter clameter@waterf.org :
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
llucius llucius@millcomm.com :
o dialog
Karl Ferguson karl@tower.net.au :
o sysutils
Christian Schwarz schwarz@monet.m.isar.de :
o dvi2tty
o hyperlatex
o info2www
o latex2rtf
Shaya Potter spotter@CapAccess.org :
o opie
Erik Andersen andersee@debian.org :
o elvis
Vincent Renardias vincent@waw.com :
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
Andy Mortimer andy.mortimer@poboxes.com :
o TinyMUSH
John Goerzen jgoerzen@complete.org :
o mgetty
Brian C. White bcwhite@verisim.com :
o zyxel
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.
krs@caos.aamu.edu (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 torin@daft.com :
o giftool
David H. Silber dhs@firefly.com :
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 bsulcer@gibson.com :
o vile (vi-like editor)
o rogue
o umoria
Martin Schulze joey@infodrom.north.de :
o vtwm: Virtual Window Manager for X11
o yodl
o w3-msql (W3 frontend for mSQL)
Michael Shields shields@crosslink.net :
o nntplink
Christian Lynbech lynbech@daimi.aau.dk :
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 bradley@mourne.gpl.net :
o Umich LDAP
o Nocol (network admin/monitoring)
o MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher)
o Minivend (WWW-based catalogues)
o PMConsole (Livingston's Portmaster admin tool)
o Portmaster tools (pmwho, log analyzers, etc)
Vincent Renardias vincent@odin.waw.com :
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 klee@sedona.com :
o NIST's POSIX validation suite
Yoshiaki Yanagihara yosiaki@bsd2.kbnes.nec.co.jp :
o japanese packages (mule, kon, kterm, canna, Japanese Extended less)
Boris D. Beletsky borik@isracom.co.il :
o MIT scheme
Christian Leutloff leutloff@sundancer.tng.oche.de :
o newtl (accessing Apple Newton Messagepad)
Todd Graham Lewis tlewis@mindspring.com :
o Kerberos ver. V (crypto) (non-US maintainer still needed)
o socks
Bill Bumgarner bbum@friday.com :
o GnuStep-related packages
Stephen Pitts pitts2@memphisonline.com :
o xmailbox
Kai Henningsen kai@khms.westfalen.de :
o sather
Lukas Nellen lukas@teorica0.ifisicacu.unam.mx :
o thttpd
Johnie Ingram johnie@netgod.tln.lib.mi.us :
o scion
o sniffit
o radiusd-merit-las
o phpfi
o xssi
Loic Prylli lprylli@graville.fdn.fr :
o jove
John Goerzen jgoerzen@complete.org :
o WorldVU-Atlantis BBS package
o midiplay (MIDI player)
Tristan McCann trismcc@nh.ultranet.com :
o Linux phone
Martin Alonso Soto Jacome masoto@uniandes.edu.co :
o jazz midi sequencer ( http://rokke.grm.hia.no/per/jazz.html )
Christian Meder christian.meder@utoronto.ca :
o flying (Pool billiards game)
Milan Zamazal pdm@fi.muni.cz :
o Stanford Graph Base
Christian Meder christian.meder@utoronto.ca :
o MuPAD
o amanda
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!)
o DJGPP
o omniORB ( http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html )
4.2. USENET news software:
o strn.
4.3. Graphics:
o Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system,
Dore'.
4.4. Games:
o rocks and diamonds
o xgammon
4.5. X11:
o Andrew
o grok (database with many functions)
o xidle
4.6. 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 )
4.7. 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/>
4.8. Misc
o Artificial Life Programs ( http://alife.santafe.edu )
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 <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/
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