Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.27 1996/10/20 21:32:14 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 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. David Engel david@ods.com : o binutils o gcc o gdb o libc5, libc6 (potentially a lot of work) o libg++ o libc4, aout-binutils, aout-gcc (stone-age compatibility packages) Andrew D. Fernandes adfernan@cnd.mcgill.ca : o acs DJ Gregor dgregor@gregor.com : o biff o cdtool o workbone o xwpe Richard Kettlewell richard@greenend.org.uk : o aout-svgalib o svgalib1 o svgalib1-bin o svgalib1-dev Christian Linhart chris@cosy.sbg.ac.at : o statserial o tgif o xarchie Michael Meskes meskes@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE : o adjtimex o fdutils o hkgerman o html2latex o metamail o xautolock Dale Miller dale@csd.uwo.ca : o lclint o mailx Ian Murdock imurdock@debian.org : o acm o aout-librl (this package might be unnecessary now) o pmake Sven Rudolph sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de : o seyon Martin Schulze joey@infodrom.north.de : o sokoban Andrew Howell andrew@it.com.au : o xtron Alvar Bray alvar@meiko.co.uk : o groff o man Dominik Kubla Dominik.Kubla@Uni-Mainz.DE : o amd o kbd o vlock 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 cjf@netaxs.com : o dome (http://www.netaxs.com/ cjf/jpegs.html) o and probably : xli, Tix krs@caos.aamu.edu (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 kaszeta@me.umn.edu : o xmotd Mike Wilson cmwilson@uncc.edu : o mule Sven Rudolph sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de : o xbill o LPRng Behan Webster behanw@verisim.com o sxpc (Simple Xwindows Protocol Compresser) o qfax (multi-user e-mail extension to efax). wendal@onyx.southwind.net: o tkHTML Darren torin@daft.com : o giftool o canna o lx-gdb Michael Alan Dorman mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu : o glimpsehttpd Warwick Harvey warwick@cs.mu.OZ.AU : o mercury (a purely declarative logic programming language with strong modes, strong types, and strong determinism) Patrick.Weemeeuw@kulnet.KULeuven.ac.be : o PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) ( http://www.pilgrim.umass.edu/pub/osf_dce/RFC/rfc86.0.txt ) marcus@sysc.pdx.edu : o CLISP 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. o latex2html Hakan Ardo hakan@munin.ub2.lu.se : o faces - visual list monitor 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 mutt: a new mailreader (ftp.infodrom.north.de:/pub/people/joey/debian/beta) Michael Shields shields@crosslink.net : o amanda, the University of Maryland's free network backup system. o nntplink Bdale Garbee bdale@gag.com : o spice (circuit simulation package) o gforth Billy Chow billy.chow@eng.ox.ac.uk : o xbomb Alan Bain afrb2@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk : o gpc (GNU Pascal) Christophe Le Bars clebars@teaser.fr : 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 arrouye@marin.fdn.fr> : o btoa o povray Erick Branderhorst branderh@debian.org : o awk2c Jon Rabone 93jkr@eng.cam.ac.uk : o SISCAD 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) Frederic Lepied Frederic.Lepied@sugix.frmug.org : o calc (emacs calculator package) Christian Hudon chrish@debian.org : o qmail (waiting for license change) Tim Cutts tim@scalopus.bio.cam.ac.uk : o exim (a mail transfer agent, ftp://cus.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programs/exim) Christian Schwarz schwarz@monet.m.isar.de : o isdnutils (utility programs necessary for Isdn4Linux) o metapost (postscript generating language similar to metafont) o penguin (a module/framework for implementing safely distributable perl code (applets, agents, etc.)) o libio-perl (Perl5 IO module) o libsafe-perl (Perl5 Safe module) Joey Hess joey@kite.preferred.com : o tracker Dermot Bradley bradley@mourne.gpl.net : o Merit Radius o Hylafax o Umich LDAP o Nocol (network admin/monitoring) 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 xmcd (ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xmcd/xmcd-2.0.README) o NIST's POSIX validation suite Volker Ossenkopf ossk@astro.uni-jena.de : o workman o bplay Yoshiaki Yanagihara yosiaki@bsd2.kbnes.nec.co.jp : o japanese packages (kterm, canna, Japanese Extended less) Wichert Akkerman wakkerma@wi.leidenuniv.nl : o lockvc Ian Main imain@vcc.bc.ca : o tkgoodstuff Lars Esbjerg Hoeg lhoeg@imada.ou.dk : o dotfile-gen Philip Hands phil@hands.com : o rsync Boris D. Beletsky borik@isracom.co.il : o xinetd (replacement for inetd with many enhancements) 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 Frederic Lepied Frederic.Lepied@sugix.frmug.org : o xinput Philippe Troin phil@fifi.org : o tix 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 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/srcm3.html ) (building this requires up to 200MB hard disk space!) 4.2. USENET news software: o strn. 4.3. Math packages: o SC (the spreadsheet). (oleo is already available) 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 binhex o bzip 4.6. Games: o rocks and diamonds o xibc (backgammon) o xevil o xgammon 4.7. X11: o Andrew o plan (calender with many functions) o grok (database with many functions) o xidle o olvwm 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/ ), WN ( http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/docs/overview.html) ) o ftptool 4.11. Text utilities o HTML editors (tkHTML, auc-html.el) o texi2html o Adobe Acrobat viewer o Virtual Paper ( http://www.research.digital.com:80/SRC/virtualpaper/ ) o wdiff (in the GNU archives) 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.