Debian Task Force

I'm not only maintaining some packages, but also working on several topics behind the doors. A very important task is to follow debian-private and debian-policy some low-volume but highly important lists.

Administrator of Debian machines

Together with some others I'm maintaining our servers va and master. Our generic address is debian-admin@debian.org.

Listmaster

Together with some others developers I'm maintaining the mailing lists on our listserver. Our generic address is listmaster@debian.org.

New-Maintainer

Together with some other people I'm processing new-maintainer submissions and make sure that they know what debian is all about before they start joining. Our generic address is new-maintainer@debian.org.

Security

Together with some other people I'm listening to some well-known security lists and advise maintainers to fix their packages if we're affected. Our generic address is security@debian.org.

packages.debian.org

I maintain the virtual mail server packages.debian.org. You can send mail to each packages' maintainer through <pkg name>@packages.debian.org. You can reach me at joey@packages.debian.org.

The Debian PowerPC

In my home LAN I'm hosting powerpc.debian.org which is a fast powerpc machine dedicated to develop Debian GNU/Linux on. Together with some other developer we're pushing the development of Debian GNU/Linux on PowerPC. I'm reachable as joey@tervola.infodrom.north.de or joey@powerpc.debian.org .

The Debian Amiga

In my home LAN I'm hosting m68k.debian.org which is a slow Amiga3000 machine dedicated to development of Debian GNU/Linux on m68k. I'm reachable as joey@kullervo.infodrom.north.de or joey@m68k.debian.org .

The #Debian Channel on IRC

I'm a well-known member of the channel #Debian on irc.debian.org which is hosted by LISC. Many maintainers meet there regularily. I'm also maintaining the list of frequent users.

Public Relations

I'm somewhat familiar with some journalistic techniques and therefore normally actively working on PR stuff like press releases. I'm also an author of several Linux and Debian related articles that were published in various german computer magazines.

Maintained Packages

(1) sysklogd

Kernel and system logging daemons.

(2) manpages-de and manpages-de-dev

German section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 manpages for Linux

(3) dbview

View dBase III files.

(4) cfingerd

Free finger daemon replacement

(5) super

Execute commands setuid root

(6) dbf2pg

Converter between xbase-dbf and Postgres files

(7) sendfile

Simple Asynchronous File Transfer

(8) staroffice3-installer

An installer routine for Star Office 3.1

(9) cgilib

A lightwind and free CGI C programming API

(10) hypermail

Create HTML archives of mailing lists

(11) Xsqlmenu

X interface to MiniSQL databases

(12) SC

Spreadsheet Calculator

(13) xarchie

X11 browser internface to archie

(14) dtaus

Paperless money transfer with German banks on floppies

(15) newmail

A biff-like tool for text screens

(16) uucpsend

An alternative UUCP batching mechanism for INN

(17) mailto

WWW Forms to Mail Gateway

(18) gicon

Place Icons on the Desktop

(19) at

Delayed job execution and batch processing

(20) nn

Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)

(21) dpkg-multicd

Installation methods for multiple binary CDs

(22) dpkg-multiftp

FTP method for dselect (multiple servers)

(23) Gerstensaft

Graphical SAFT client

Local Packages

I also maintain some packages that I don't put into the Debian Linux queue. This has several reasons. I either have taken a Debian package and made an Infodrom package out of it, I took a new package of which I don't think that it is useful for Debian or I have made a package on which another maintainer is working, too, but find my package much more better. :-) Another reason might be a simple re-build because of a.out...

All of these packages can be found on ftp.infodrom.north.de (Infodrom Oldenburg) in /pub/Linux/Infodrom/debian/.

(1) i-base

Basic programs for Infodrom GNU/Linux

(2) i-dpkg

Additional tools for Infodrom GNU/Linux

(3) lynx

Text-mode WWW Browser
Reason: Included a proxy-wrapper, packaged at the same time as the Debian Linux package
Compatible with Debian

(4) chimera

X11 World-Wide Web Client
Reason: Included a proxy-wrapper, packaged at the same time as the Debian Linux package
Compatible with Debian

(5) elm

Full screen Electronic Mail interactive user agent
Reason: Patched up newmail
Compatible with Debian

(6) findutils

GNU find, xargs and locate.
Reason: Included tools for /pub-locate
Compatible with Debian

(7) httpget

Fetch http URLs given on the command line
Not needed for Debian Linux (?) Uses proxy-wrapper

(8) ircd

Internet Relay Chat Daemon
Reason: much more better than Debian Linux' package
Partially incompatible with Debian Linux

(9) lshell

Limited Shell
Reason: Unsure if ok for Debian, now another package
Compatible with Debian Linux

(10) maildec

Binary decoder for mails
Reason: Unsure if needed for Debian
Compatible with Debian Linux

(11) mirror

Perl program for keeping ftp archives
Reason: Added some useful patches
Compatible with Debian Linux

(12) squid

Internet Object Cache (WWW proxy cache)
Reason: Maintainer was too slow
Partially incompatible with Debian Linux

(13) xpinguin

The Linux Pinguin logo for your X11 desktop
Reason: Neede for Debian?
Compatible with Debian Linux

Prospective Work

I work on these packages more or less often to create a Debian package. There are problems with some of them, that's why they aren't uploaded yes. If you are interested in betatesting any of them, you might find the actual version on ftp.infodrom.north.de in /pub/people/joey/debian/. Feel free to test them, but please send me comments in any case, either if they work for you or if they don't.

yodl

Yet Oneother Document Language

Packages that I have given away

I have been worked on some packages but have given them to another maintainer who seems to use it and has more time to spend on them. :-)

(1) cached

Harvest HTTP Proxy
Replaced by squid packages, both Debian and Infodrom packages are available.

(2) at

Delayed job execution and batch processing

(3) sokoban

Game to move boxes around

(4) pdksh

A public domain version of the Korn shell.

(5) JED

The JED Editor.
Taken over by Boris D. Beletsky

(6) zoo

zoo archiver
Taken over by James Troup

(7) leave

Reminds you when you have to leave
Taken over by James Troup

(8) xfractint

Fractal generation program
Taken over by Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@sci.fi>

(9) fractxtra

Fractint Extras Collection
Taken over by Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@sci.fi>

(10) manpages

Section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 manpages for Linux
Taken over by Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar>

(11) gpm and libgpm1

General Purpose Mouse Interface
Taken over by James Troup

(12) ctwm

Claude's Tab Windows Manager
Taken over by Vadim Vygonets and taken back by myself.

(13) uudeview

Smart multi-file multi-part decoder
Taken over by Steve Phillips

(14) libdbi-perl

The Perl5 Database Interface by Tim Bunce
Taken over by Ben Gertzfield
Taken back from Ben.

(15) figlet

Frank, Ian & Glenn's Letters
Taken over by Francesco Tapparo

(16) figfonts

User contributed fonts for figlet
Taken over by Francesco Tapparo

(17) lha

lzh un-archiver
Taken over by Steve McIntyre

(18) dosfstools

Utilities to create and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems
Taken over by Roman Hodek

(19) libident

A simple RFC1413 client library
Taken over by Paul Slootman

(20) premail

An e-mail privacy package.
Taken over by Brent Fulgham

(21) javalex

A Lex style analyser for Java

(22) Roxen, Pike, Pike-Postgres, Pike-MySQL, Pike-mSQL

Roxen Challenger, webserver
Taken over by Turbo Fredrikson

(23) Grail

A web browser written in Python
Removed due to non-free license.

(24) mkhybrid

CD-ROM authoring tool. Creates CD-ROM filesystem images
Taken over by Chris Lawrence

(25) ctwm

Claude's Tab Windows Manager
Taken over by Branden Robinson

(26) vtwm

Virtual Tab Windows Manager
Taken over by Branden Robinson

(27) xdaliclock

Melting digital clock
Taken over by Joey Hess

(28) libdatecalc-perl

Perl library for accessing dates
Taken over by Christian Hammers

(29) libdbi-perl

The Perl5 Database Interface by Tim Bunce
Taken over by Christian Hammers

(30) libstorable-perl

Storable extension for Perl5
Taken over by Christian Hammers

(31) libprpc-perl

Perl extensions for writing pRPC servers and clients
Taken over by Christian Hammers

(32) gtkfind

GTK-based file finding program
Taken over by Chris Waters

(33) gtkcookie

GTK-based cookie editor
Taken over by Chris Waters

(34) gftp

Graphical FTP client
Taken over by Chris Waters

(35) wordinspect

GTK-based frontend to dict
Taken over by Bob Hilliard

(36) cqcam

Color QuickCam (PC/Parallel) control program
Taken over by Daniel Martin

(37) gnotepad+

GTK-based Notepad editor
Taken over by James LewisMoss

(38) tkirc

A Tcl/Tk based IRC client
Will be taken over by P.A. Knuutila

(39) ZenIRC

A major mode for wasting time
Taken over by Stevie Strickland

(40) gtk+-docs

GTK-, GDK- and GLIB-documentation in HTML and PS
Taken over by Stevie Strickland

(41) apsfilter

A lineprinter input filter for systems with lpd/lpr
Taken over by Matej Vela

(42) xwhois

RFC954 whois client
Taken over by Martin Mitchell

(43) mdutils

Utilities to support RAID disks
Taken over by P.A. Knuutila

(44) raidtools

Utilities to support RAID disks (superseeds mdutils for 2.1.x kernels)
Taken over by P.A. Knuutila

(34) apcd

APC Smart UPS daemon
Taken over by Tibor Koleszar

(35) manpages-es

Spanish section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 manpages Taken over by Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@feedback.com.ar>

(36) file-rc

An alternative scheme for /etc/init.d scripts.
Taken over by Roland Rosenfels <roland@debian.org>

(37) mswordview

A Word8/Word97 to HTML converter
Taken over by Matej Vela <vela@debian.org>

(38) xsnow

Brings Christmas to your desktop
Taken over by Sean Perry <shaleh@debian.org>

(39) xarclock

Extended xclock
Taken over by Chris Waters <xtifr@debian.org>

(40) jester

Othello-like game
Taken over by Chris Waters <xtifr@debian.org>

(41) tkpaint

Versatile bitmap/pixmap editing tool
Taken over by Andrea Fanfani <andrea@linux.it>

(42) rman

RosettaMan - Reverse compile man pages Taken over by Stephen Moraco

(43) msql, msqld, libmsql1, libmsql2, msql-doc, w3-msql

MiniSQL Engine and Tools
Removed from the distribution

(44) msqlperl

Old perl frontend for accessing the mSQL database engine
Removed from the distribution