Debian Packages
Debian PackagesHere are the packages (of code originally written by other people) I maintain for the Debian project.
netkit-telnet-ssl is a telnet client and server with patches to enable SSL encryption. The netkit-telnet-ssl source package creates two binary packages, telnet-ssl (the client) and telnetd-ssl (the server).
SSL telnet(d) replaces normal telnet(d) using SSL authentication and encryption. It interoperates with normal telnet(d) in both directions. It checks if the other side is also talking SSL, if not it falls back to normal telnet protocol.
Advantages over normal telnet(d): Your passwords and the data you send will not go in cleartext over the line. Nobody can get it with tcpdump or similar tools. With SSLtelnet you can also connect to https-server like https://www.netscape.com. Just do 'telnet www.netscape.com 443'
netkit-ftp-ssl is an ftp client with patches to enable SSL encryption. The netkit-ftp-ssl source package creates the binary package ftp-ssl.
SSL ftp replaces normal ftp using SSL authentication and encryption. It interoperates with normal ftp. It checks if the other side is also talking SSL, if not it falls back to normal ftp protocol.
Advantages over normal ftp: Your passwords and the data you send will not go in cleartext over the line. Nobody can get it with tcpdump or similar tools.
linux-ftpd-ssl is an ftp server with patches to enable SSL encryption. The linux-ftpd-ssl source package creates the binary package ftpd-ssl.
SSL ftpd replaces normal ftpd using SSL authentication and encryption. It interoperates with normal ftp. It checks if the other side is also talking SSL, if not it falls back to normal ftp protocol.
Advantages over normal ftpd: Your passwords and the data you send will not go in cleartext over the line. Nobody can get it with tcpdump or similar tools.
C-Kermit is a combined serial and network communication software package offering a consistent, medium-independent, cross-platform approach to connection establishment, terminal sessions, file transfer, character-set translation, and automation of communication tasks.
Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, wikipedia, cpan, wayback, amazon, imdb, babelfish, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell.
Due to heavy dependencies, the opensearch elvis has been split off into a seperate package, surfraw-extra.
Surfraw was originally written by Julian Assange, and is in the public domain. I am part of the team developing it. Join us on the surfraw-devel mailing list.
GNU Interactive Tools (gnuit, formerly git) is a set of interactive text-mode tools, closely integrated with the shell. It contains an extensible file system browser, an ascii/hex file viewer, a process viewer/killer and some other related utilities and shell scripts. It can be used to increase the speed and efficiency of most of the daily tasks such as copying and moving files and directories, invoking editors, compressing and uncompressing files, creating and expanding archives, compiling programs, sending mail, etc. It looks nice, has colors (if the standard ANSI color sequences are supported) and is user-friendly.
One of the main advantages of gnuit is its flexibility. It is not limited to a given set of commands. The configuration file can be easily enhanced, allowing the user to add new commands or file operations, depending on its needs or preferences.
This is not Linus Torvalds' content tracker, also called git. To avoid confusion, the package is now called gnuit. In Debian Lenny, git is a transitional package to drag in the new gnuit package
MP3::Tag is a perl module to read and write ID3 metadata tags within MP3 files. libmp3-tag-perl is the debian package that supplies MP3::Tag.
WWW::OpenSearch is a perl module to search web sites that provide an OpenSearch description and handle responses in Atom or RSS.
See http://www.opensearch.org/ for more information on OpenSearch.
I packaged WWW::OpenSearch to allow OpenSearch support in
surfraw, see the surfraw-extra package.
URI::Template is a perl module to provide a wrapper round URI Templates. It is packaged as a dependency of WWW::Opensearch
pgp5i can no longer be part of debian, as the non-US/non-free section has been discontinued. I have kept a copy of the debian package in my apt source, along with rsaref2, the crypto library needed to build pgp5i. Note that this version is long out of date and probably has security issues. Supporting this is a low priority, but feel free to contact me about it.