Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: prospective-packages.html,v 1.7 1998/03/24 19:13:43 johnie Exp $ This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the regular Debian Developer documentation: [1]http://www.debian.org/developers_corner.html. This document provides the current list of packages which are either: * orphaned, * withdrawn from the unstable distribution, * maintained but its developer would like to find a new person, * currently being worked on to include in the distribution, and * good ideas -- they would be nice to have, but no one is yet working on them. New versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: * [2]http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html * [3]ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-pa ckages.txt * [4]ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-pa ckages.html Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to the WNPP maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Please mention 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 to sort out all "Re: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages" emails. A suggested subject line reads "WNPP: removing foopackage" or "WNPP: working on barpackage". Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ Recent Changes Since version 1998/03/17
The lzo, dfm, and nocol packages are uploaded. Packages needing a new maintainer * The ascd, ascdc, asmail, asmixer, netpbm, tkdesk and asmodem packages are now orphaned. Packages adopted * The iplogger package is adopted by Hugo Haas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * The xmikmod and xpuzzles packages are adopted by Fredrik Hallenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * The scm and slib packages are adopted by Jim Pick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), who is also working on gnome. * The mp3info package is adopted by Pawel Wiecek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Packages being created * The x11amp mp3 player is being packaged by Jens Ritter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * An xtartan package (Scottish X backgrounds) is being created by Anselm Lingnau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). _________________________________________________________________ Orphaned packages An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer. Please inform the WNPP maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) via e-mail: * when you find that you need to orphan a package, * when you believe that the following list is incomplete, or * when you would like to maintain one of these packages. The following packages are orphaned: By the Debian QA Group (debian-qa@lists.debian.org): * 9wm -- An emulation of the Plan 9 window manager 8-1/2 * bibindex -- fast lookup in BibTeX bibliography data bases * latex2rtf -- LaTeX text to RTF format translator * mcvert -- Tool to deal with specially encoded Macintosh files (non-free) * pari -- A package for number theorists (non-free) * paridoc -- The documentation and examples for the PARI system (non-free) * rc -- An implementation of the AT&T Plan 9 shell. * sam -- A plan9 derived text editor * xabacus -- Implementation of the classic Chinese abacus * xbattle -- A concurrent multi-player battle strategy game * xmcpustate -- Displays CPU/Swap/Memory/Network load By David Engel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * ascd -- AfterStep CD player * ascdc -- AfterStep CD changer * asmail -- AfterStep mail monitor * asmixer -- AfterStep audio mixer By Herbert Xu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * netpbm -- graphics conversion tools By Clint Adams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * tkdesk -- Tk/tcl based X11 Desktop/File manager * asmodem -- AfterStep modem monitor By Dale Sheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * ucblogo -- Dialect of lisp using turtle graphics famous for teaching kids By Christoph Lameter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * wdb -- web to database language No upstream version since 1996 By James Troup ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * zoo -- manipulate archives of files in compressed form (non-free) * regex -- GNU regular expression library By Andreas Jellinghaus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * giflib -- shared library for GIF images (non-free) By Patrick Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * cfs -- cryptographic filesystem (non-us) * mailpgp (non-us) By Steve Dunham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * xtar-dmotif -- Motif front end for tar * xtar-smotif -- Motif front end for tar, with static libXm By Helmut Geyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * xxgdb -- A X front-end to the GNU debugger gdb By Orn E. Hansen * xmailtool -- The good old BSD style mail reader By Yves Arrouye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * psptools -- Tools for PostScript printers and devices By Robert Leslie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * motifnls -- Files needed to run some Motif applications By Michael Fletcher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * rsynth -- Text to speach program (non-free) By Karl Sackett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * courtney -- Program to detect SATAN scans * groupkit -- Real-time groupware applications package * imgstar -- IMG* Image Processing Toolset and C Library (non-free) * lee -- Latent Energy Environment * objpak -- An Objective-C collection class library * pgapack -- A general-purpose genetic algorithm library * saoimage -- A utility for displaying astronomical images * snns -- Stuttgart Neural Net Simulator (non-free) * tcs -- Character set translator * wily -- A work-alike of the Acme programming environment for Plan 9 * xephem-smotif -- An interactive astronomical ephemeris for X (contrib) _________________________________________________________________ Withdwrawn packages A withdrawn package is an orphaned package that is no longer in the unstable distribution, but instead stored in project/orphaned. A new maintainer is needed to resurrect these pacakges: * apsfilter -- A lineprinter input filter for systems with lpd/lpr * auto-pgp -- integrates PGP with Emacs RMAIL mode (non-free) * cfgtool -- Manipulate system configuration variables * compress-package -- fileset to build Debian compress packages (contrib) * dld -- a library package of C functions that performs dynamic link editing (do we still need this?) * infocom -- A freely distributable parser for Infocom data files * isite -- Information System for Libraries * j1 -- A compiler of some sort * libc4 -- The Linux C library version 4 (a.out) * mathpad -- Mathematically oriented document preparation * pash -- a full screen shell for Unix (contrib) * ppd-adobe -- Adobe's PostScript Printer Description files (non-free) * splay -- MPEG-3 audio player (contrib) * term -- a serial-line multiplexer * zyxel -- U-1496 (ZyXEL) Modem Driver for dialin, fax, and voice-mail (non-free) _________________________________________________________________ Packages needing a new maintainer Please inform the WNPP maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) via e-mail when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package. To adopt a package, please inform both WNPP and the current maintainer of the package. The following packages are offered up for adoption: By Karl M. Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * cvsweb -- A CGI interface to your CVS repository * gv -- A PostScript and PDF viewer for X using 3d Athena Widgets * procmail-lib -- A library of useful procmail recipes * rel -- Determines relevance of text documents to a set of keywords (non-free) * cgiwrap -- Allows ordinary users to run their own CGI scripts * browser-history -- User daemon that tracks URL's looked at and logs them to a WWW page * suidmanager -- Manage File Permissions By Scott Ellis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * deliver -- local mail delivery agent By Riku Voipio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * xfractint -- UNIX-based fractal generator * xtron -- Tron game for X * fte -- Fte text editor for Console and X-windows * gmod -- module player for Ultrasound and AWE soundcards By Johnie Ingram ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * cfengine -- tool for configuring and maintaining network machines * libfcgi2 -- FastCGI web library By J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * lesstif -- Hungry Programmers' version of OSF/Motif. Making the lesstif packages isn't very difficult. The challenge with this package is that LessTif is still not complete, and may well again have bugs that are difficult to track (recently: memory leaks and X hangs). The ideal maintainer would be somebody who is familiar with debugging X stuff, and who is prepared to work closely with the upstream developers. By Rob Browning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * libident -- a simple RFC1413 client library By Vincent Renardias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * lde -- Linux Disk Editor * scilab -- Matrix-based scientific software package (a la Matlab and Xmath) (non-free) By Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * staroffice3 -- Star Office 3.1 installer By Michael Meskes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * html2latex -- Convert HTML markup to LaTeX markup (non-free) * icmake -- Intelligent C-like MAKEr, or the ICce MAKE utility * ntfs -- A driver for the Windows NT file system * umsdos -- UMSDOS file system utilities * xftp -- Athena X interface to ftp By Joost Witteveen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * axe -- An editor for X (non-free) * pixmap -- A pixmap editor * pstoedit -- Converts ps files into edditable files for xfig/tgif * wm2 -- Small, unconfigurable window manager By Christoph Lameter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * adpkg -- Alternate Package maintenance system (experimental) * cmostool -- CMOS manipulator * debsums -- Tools to handle md5sums for installed packages * devbios -- BIOS flash programming tool * floppybackup -- Floppy backup using a diversity of floppy formats * frad -- Frame Relay Tools for DLCI/SDLA Drivers in 2.0/2.1 kernels * fvwm95 -- Win95 lookalike Window Manager for X * htget -- HTTP file transfer tool * ipportfw -- Port forwarding tool + kernel patches * iptraf -- Interactive IP traffic analyzer * jered -- Simple C/C++ text editor with color * le -- Text Editor with block and binary operations * mserver -- Network Modem Server * optimizer -- Assembler Code optimizer for MMX, PPro and Pentium (non-free) * pciutils -- PCI utilities for 2.1.80 and higher * poppassd -- Password change server for Eudora and NUPOP * sftp -- Small ftp client with amazing features * sharefont -- Shareware font selection for X11 (non-free) * shaper -- Traffic shaper for 2.1.x kernels * smb-nat -- SMB Network Analysis Tool * xfstt -- TrueType Font Server for X11 * xskat -- Skat as defined by the official german Skatordnung * zmailer -- Mailer for Extreme Performance Demands _________________________________________________________________ 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. The following packages are being worked on: By Jens Ritter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * x11amp -- X-based mp3 player By Marcelo E. Magallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * wmcdplay -- applet for playing CDs * wmmount -- applet for mounting and unmounting filesystems By Gene McCulley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * gcc-m68k-palmos-coff -- cross-compiler for PalmPilot * gdb-m68k-palmos-coff -- cross-debugger for PalmPilot * prc-tools * vMac -- Macintosh emulator By Hubert Weikert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * [5]FCT -- web-based firewall config tool By David Frey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * NoSQL -- relational database management system By Jean Pierre LeJacq ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * [6]enskip -- security module for TCP/IP stack By Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * aview -- high quality ascii-art browser By Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * perlindex -- search engine for Perl documentation By Patrick Ouellette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * gpc -- GNU Pascal Compiler By Fabien Ninoles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * Cold Project -- A free Multi User Virtual Environment, a.k.a. 'MUD with much more!' By Alistair Cunningham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * Chain Reaction By Ben Gertzfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * TCD, a GPL audio CD player By Greg Stark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * zephyr By Brian Basset ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * WarFTPD By Alexander List ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * [7]tpc By Robert Edmonds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * tasktimer By Roderick Schertler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * quake2-dm * libfile-df-perl By Tom Lear ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * acidwarp -- svgalib screen hack ported from dos * xfmix -- xforms-based mixer program By Kirk Hilliard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * proj -- conversion utilities for geographic projections and coordinate systems By Ed Petron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set (PCCTS) By Leland Olds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * YADE -- Yet Another Diagram Editor By Jim Pick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * [8]mico ORB By Anselm Lingnau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * tclhttpd -- TCL-based webserver By Shaleh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * [9]The enlightenment window manager By Erik Andersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * [10]Willows TWIN By Alexander Lazarevic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * squeak -- implementation of Smalltalk By Stuart Lamble ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * [11]Modula-3 By Igor Grobman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * (x)battleball -- 3D soccer game By Brian Bassett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * Caldera COAS By Darren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * [12]eterm -- VT102 emulator for X By Brian Sulcer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * vile (vi-like editor) * rogue * umoria By Martin Schulze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * yodl By Christian Lynbech ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * ilisp -- emacs interface to a number of lisp systems * hyperbole -- emacs hypertext/info management system * oobr -- emacs package for browsing OO programs * STk -- Scheme Tk, a scheme interpreter with Tk support By Dermot Bradley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * Umich LDAP By Vincent Renardias ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * FWF (Free Widget Foundation) -- A pretty good set of graphic widgets * [13]Aero -- A Physically Based Simulation and Animation System By Klee Dienes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * NIST's POSIX validation suite By Yoshiaki Yanagihara ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * japanese packages -- mule, canna, Japanese Extended less By Boris D. Beletsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * MIT scheme * Scheme->C * [14]Freedom Desktop By Christian Leutloff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * dtdparse * iDoc -- QA tool for Java Send mail if you're interested in this package. By Kai Henningsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * sather By Tristan McCann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * Linux phone By Martin Alonso Soto Jacome ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * [15]jazz midi sequencer By Christian Meder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * [16]MuPAD -- computer algebra tool from University of Paderborn, Germany By Andy Mortimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * TinyMUSH By Yann Dirson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * Using SGML, basic concepts -- documentation * Understanding and writing SGML DTDs -- documentation By Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * [17]mars_nwe -- Netware server By Marco Budde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * HTML version of Matt Welsh's "Installation & Getting Started" By Charles Briscoe-Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * UPS -- the X-based debugger (there are Linux-specific patches around) * GSpreview By Peter Tonoli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * terroid By Joost Kooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * xbat By Will Lowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * clisp By Stephan Suerken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * uae * gom * xpcd By Brian S. Julin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * hypernews By Robert Resendes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * [18]omniORB By Federico Di Gregorio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * reiserfs By James R. Van Zandt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * mirrordir -- mirrors directory trees * emacsspeak-bs * emacsspeak-ap * emacsspeak-ac * emacsspeak-xx By David Damerell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * mangband By Gregor Hoffleit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * gstep-make * gstep-gui * gstep-xdps * gstep-db * dgs * cakit * ockit * objc By Brian Bassett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * cgic -- CGI C library from boutell.com * srgp -- Simple Raster Graphics Package By Leonardo Boselli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * listguard -- mailing list manager By Gergely Madarasz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * hugs -- haskell interpreter By Claus R. Wickinghoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): * changesys -- newsgroup ordering tool _________________________________________________________________ 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 one of these packages, or any Debian package, please send an e-mail with an "Intent to create ..." subject line to the Debian development list (debian-devel@lists.debian.org). If you are not already a developer, instructions on joining the Debian Project are in the "Developers Corner" of the Debian website. Programming and development * ECoLisp -- a Common Lisp compiler that produces faster code but isn't as widely used as GCL * CLiCC -- Common Lisp compiler that generates stand-alone apps (rather large ones, though) * CLX -- Common Lisp Xlib implementation * PCL -- Portable Common Loops for GCL * Cross-compilation environments for alpha, m68k, SPARC * [19]ACE -- (a free C++ library) * [20]FPK pascal * [21]GNU Nana -- improved support for assertions and logging in C and C++. * [22]qddb -- a relational database. Graphics * Kubota Graphics Corporation's now-PD 3-D visualization system, Dore'. * The [23]pnmhisteq add-on that came with an older versions of netpbm. * A pstogif package, (a binary is currently buried inside xemacs19, xemacs20, latex2html, and sdc). * A CAD package from the [24]Scientific Applications on Linux page. X11 * The LGPL-ed GUI library [25]fltk which is supposed to be compatible with (non-free) XForms toolkit. Use of XForms is the sole reason that several useful packages like lyx are in contrib rather than main. * Andrew * [26]mergemem * grok -- database with many functions * xidle * [27]Express, the GTK web browser for GNOME. Networking and Communication * ftptool * [28]Speakerphone/Answering Machine for USR and Rockwell Modems * [29]SSL FTP and FTPD -- If possible, the SSL functionality for the daemon should be ported to the one in netstd, as that may contain security fixes not in SSL ftpd. * [30]Telnet98, with 128-bit encryption (non-us). * [31]pathchar, a device for measuring bandwidth of remote pipes. * The [32]coda filesystem tools. Text utilities * HTML editors (tkHTML, auc-html.el) * [33]Virtual Paper * A free English dictionary ([34]www.dict.org). Misc * [35]sfio -- C library stdio replacement * [36]Artificial Life Programs * [37]Acmaint -- user administration tool * [38]hpack -- non-us archiver * [39]rar -- shareware archiver * [40]sound-recorder, a CD sound recorder that doesn't require CDDA. _________________________________________________________________ Programs that someone should write This section contains suggestions/wishes for programs. There is no known implementation of such a program for Linux. * amspell (ms-dos) -like spell checker, i.e. a spell checker that 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. _________________________________________________________________ Packages that cant be packaged * HotJava -- the license prohibits redistribution of any kind. _________________________________________________________________ Historical Changes _________________________________________________________________ Recent Changes Since version 1998/03/10 This list does not yet contain the packages newly added to project/orphaned. Packages needing a new maintainer * The mp3info, xmikmod, ytalk, ucblogo, wdb, and xpuzzles packages are now orphaned. * Karl Hegbloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) needs a new maintainer for cvsweb, gv, procmail-lib, rel, cgi-wrap, browser-history, and suidmanager. * The deliver MDA needs a new maintainer. Packages adopted * The KDE suite and Kmodplayer are adopted by Stephan Kulow of KDE and Christian Hammers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * The premail package is adopted by Brent Fulgham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * The blt suite of Tk extensions is adopted by Gordon Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * The dvi2tty package is adopted by Darren/Torin/Who Ever... ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]). * The catdoc package is adopted by new maintainer Bjorn Brenander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * The xcolors and xoj packages are adopted by new maintainer Fredrik Hallenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * The hyperlatex package is adopted by Matthias Klose ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Packages being created * The Quake II deathmatch map package is being created by Roderick Schertler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). * A tasktimer package is being created by Robert Edmonds ([EMAIL PROTECTED], IRC "stu"). * PalmPilot packages (gcc-m68k-palmos-coff, gdb-m68k-palmos-coff, and prc-tools) and vMac, a Macintosh emulator, are being worked on by Gene McCulley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). _________________________________________________________________ References 1. http://www.debian.org/developers_corner.html 2. http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html 3. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-packages.txt 4. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective-packages.html 5. http://www.fen.baynet.de/~ft114/FCT/index.htm 6. http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~skip/ 7. http://www.tpc.int/ 8. http://diamant-atm.vsb.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~mico/ 9. http://www.enlightenment.org/ 10. http://www.willows.com/ 11. http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/home.html 12. http://www.tcserv.com/Eterm/ 13. http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/bv/aero/ 14. ftp://fsw.com/pub/fdlite/FDlite1.32.tar.gz 15. http://rokke.grm.hia.no/per/jazz.html 16. http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~cube 17. ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/ncpfs 18. http://www.orl.co.uk/omniORB/omniORB.html 19. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html 20. http://sun01.brain.uni-freiburg.de/%7Eklaus/fpk-pas/ 21. http://wattle.cs.ntu.edu.au/homepages/pjm/nana-home/ 22. ftp://ftp.hsdi.com/pub/qddb/sources/ 23. http://www.fourmilab.ch/netpbm 24. http://www.idite-minho.pt/SAL/ 25. http://www.cinenet.net/users/spitzak/fltk/ 26. http://www.mondoshawan.ml.org/mergemem/ 27. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~conradp/express/ 28. http://www.mindspring.com/~bnaylor/spk/ 29. ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/SSLapps/ 30. ftp://quasimodo.stanford.edu/pub/telnet/ 31. ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pathchar/ 32. http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ 33. http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/ 34. http://www.dict.org/ 35. http://www.oasis.leo.org/perl/src/independent/sfio.dsc.html 36. http://alife.santafe.edu/ 37. ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/ACMAINT/ 38. http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/public/computing/archiving/compress/hpack/ 39. http://www.zetnet.co.uk/RAR.T-Mail/ 40. http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/sound-recorder-0.02.tar.gz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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