Subject: FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

From: Sven Rudolph <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 00:32:50 +0200

Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
  Sven Rudolph, [email-masked]
  $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.22 1996/09/12 22:26:04 sr1 Exp sr1 $

  1.  General Questions

  1.1.	What is Debian GNU/Linux

  Please 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-masked].  Please mention to which version of
  this document your comments refer.

  2.  Packages needing a new maintainer

  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 need a new
  maintainer, send me an e-mail.

  If you would like to maintain one of the packages listed here, send me
  an e-mail.

  Andrew D. Fernandes [email-masked] :
  o  acs

  DJ Gregor [email-masked] :
  o  biff
  o  cdtool
  o  unclutter
  o  workbone
  o  xwpe

  Richard Kettlewell [email-masked] :
  o  aout-svgalib
  o  svgalib1
  o  svgalib1-bin
  o  svgalib1-dev

  Christian Linhart [email-masked] :
  o  statserial
  o  tgif
  o  xarchie

  Michael Meskes [email-masked] :
  o  adjtimex
  o  fdutils
  o  hkgerman
  o  html2latex
  o  lyx
  o  metamail
  o  modules
  o  xautolock

  Dale Miller [email-masked] :
  o  lclint
  o  mailx

  Ian Murdock [email-masked] :
  o  acm
  o  aout-librl (this package might be unnecessary now)
  o  pmake

  Jim Robinson [email-masked] :
  o  pari

  Sven Rudolph [email-masked] :
  o  seyon

  Peter Tobias [email-masked] :
  o  wu-ftpd

  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-masked] :
  o  dome (http://www.netaxs.com/ cjf/jpegs.html)
  o  and probably : xli, Tix, povray

  [email-masked] (Karl R. Sackett) :
  o  FreeLIP - large integer package
  o  GroupKit - development library for building realtime groupware apps
  o  LEE - Latent Energy Environments artificial life simulator
  o  rsaref - installer scripts for the RSAREF crypto library
  o  swarm - Objective-C based artificial life research tool
  o  premail - e-mail privacy package

  Richard Kaszeta [email-masked] :
  o  xmotd

  Mike Wilson [email-masked] :
  o  mule

  Sven Rudolph [email-masked] :
  o  xbill
  o  LPRng

  "behan (b.) webster" [email-masked]
  o  sxpc (Simple Xwindows Protocol Compresser)
  o  qfax (multi-user e-mail extension to efax).

  [email-masked]:
  o  tkHTML

  Darren [email-masked] :
  o  mew, giftool

  [email-masked] :
  o  BBDB (for Emacs: Big Brother Data Base, a rolodex with hooks into
     VM, GNUS, and RMAIL)

  Michael Alan Dorman [email-masked] :
  o  glimpsehttpd

  Warwick Harvey [email-masked] :
  o  mercury (a purely declarative logic programming language with
     strong modes, strong types, and strong determinism)

  [email-masked] :
  o  PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) (
     http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/osf_dce/RFC/rfc86.0.txt )

  [email-masked] :
  o  CLISP

  David H. Silber [email-masked] :
  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

  Hakan Ardo [email-masked] :
  o  faces - visual list monitor

  Brian Sulcer [email-masked] :
  o  vile (vi-like editor)
  o  rogue
  o  umoria

  Martin Schulze [email-masked] :
  o  vtwm: Virtual Window Manager for X11

  Michael Shields [email-masked] :
  o  amanda, the University of Maryland's free network backup system.
  o  nntplink

  Bdale Garbee [email-masked] :
  o  spice (circuit simulation package)
  o  gforth

  Billy Chow [email-masked] :
  o  xbomb

  Alan Bain [email-masked] :
  o  gpc (GNU Pascal)

  Christophe Le Bars [email-masked] :
  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-masked]> :
  o  ppd-gs (a set of PPD files for my Ghostscript drivers)
  o  btoa

  Erick Branderhorst [email-masked] :
  o  awk2c

  Jon Rabone [email-masked] :
  o  SISCAD

  Christian Lynbech [email-masked] :
  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)

  Christian Hudon [email-masked] :
  o  qmail

  Tim Cutts [email-masked] :
  o  exim (a mail transfer agent,
     ftp://cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/exim)

  Christian Schwarz [email-masked] :
  o  isdnutils (utility programs necessary for Isdn4Linux)
  o  metapost	(postscript generating lanuage similar to metafont)
  o  wavplay (WAV-Player for Linux)
  o  xblast (multiplayer X11 game)

  Joey Hess [email-masked] :
  o  tracker

  Dermot Bradley [email-masked] :
  o  Merit Radius
  o  Hylafax
  o  Umich LDAP
  o  Nocol (network admin/monitoring)

  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.  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 )
  o  CLX - Common Lisp Xlib implementation
  o  PCL - Portable Common Loops for GCL

  4.2.	USENET news software:

  o  strn.

  4.3.	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 )
  o  Cross-compilation environments for alpha, m68k, SPARC

  4.4.	Graphics:

  o  Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system,
     Dore'.

  4.5.	Misc Tools:

  o  binhex

  4.6.	Editors:

  o  NEdit ( http://fnpspa.fnal.gov/nirvana/nedit.html , requires Motif)
  o  jed (small emacs-like)

  4.7.	Games:

  o  rocks and diamonds
  o  xgalaga (space-invaders style game)
  o  xibc (backgammon)
  o  xevil
  o  xgammon

  4.8.	X11:

  o  Andrew
  o  plan (calender with many functions)
  o  grok (database with many functions)
  o  xidle
  o  xmcd (ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmcd/xmcd-2.0.README)
  o  olvwm

  4.9.	Communication

  o  BBS (Bulletin Board System) Software

  4.10.	TeX

  o  tmview (svgalib DVI viewer) Kpathsea support should be added and
     the original author is already aware of this. Contact him first.

  4.11.	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

  4.12.	System Tools

  o  IBCS2 emulator

  4.13.	Text utilities

  o  HTML editors (tkHTML, asWedit, auc-html.el)
  o  mpage (GNU enscript is already available)
  o  texi2html

  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-masked]> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/

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From: Sven Rudolph <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 00:32:50 +0200

1.  General Questions

  1.3.	Feedback

  Darren [email-masked] :
  o  mew, giftool

  [email-masked] :
  o  CLISP

  o  strn.

  4.3.	Math packages:

  4.4.	Graphics:

  4.5.	Misc Tools:

  o  binhex

  4.6.	Editors:

  4.7.	Games:

  o  rocks and diamonds

  4.8.	X11:

  o  Andrew

  4.9.	Communication

  4.10.	TeX

  4.11.	Networking

  4.12.	System Tools

  o  IBCS2 emulator

  4.13.	Text utilities

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From: Joey Hess <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:41:05 -0400 (EDT)

>   Richard Kettlewell [email-masked] :

I need a newer varsion of svgalib for a program (XaoS) I want to package
up for debian. Is this package orphaned? Is anyone else planning on
taking over maintaining it? I don't really want to take on such an
important package myself (too new at this).

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From: Joey Hess <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:41:05 -0400 (EDT)