Work-needing packages report for Jun 10, 2005
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested
through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the
last week.
Total number of orphaned packages: 198 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 87 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 9 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
newsflash (#312208), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: gets news with the newnews command from a server
postit (#312209), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: sends news from your local server to a remote host
196 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.
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The following packages have been given up for adoption:
bbppp (#311827), offered 6 days ago
Description: PPP tool for the blackbox window manager
fbgrab (#311829), offered 6 days ago
Description: Framebuffer grabber
ht (#312078), offered 4 days ago
Description: Viewer/editor/analyser (mostly) for executables
84 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage for a complete list.
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For the following packages help is requested:
athcool (#278442), requested 226 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
debtags (#262927), requested 311 days ago
Description: Evolution of package metadata
Reverse Depends: debtags-edit
dselect (#282283), requested 201 days ago
Description: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: dpkg
grub (#248397), requested 395 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: replicator grubconf dfsbuild webmin-grub
grub-splashimages
parted (#262885), requested 311 days ago
Description: Searching co-maintainer for the parted package.
Reverse Depends: libparted1.6-dev elilo-installer mdcfg-utils
libparted1.6-i18n aboot-installer parted-udeb qtparted partitioner
libparted1.6-dbg parted partconf-find-partitions partconf partman
mindi lvmcfg-utils nobootloader autopartkit partconf-mkfstab
partman-efi
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 275 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: pbbuttonsd-dev gtkpbbuttons powerprefs
qmailadmin (#267756), requested 289 days ago
Description: web interface for managing qmail with virtual domains
[contrib]
squashfs (#267078), requested 293 days ago
Description: Tool to create and append to squashfs filesystems
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 311 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: libstlport4.6-dev openoffice.org-gnomevfs
openoffice.org-gtk-gnome openoffice.org-evolution openoffice.org-dev
openoffice.org-kde openoffice.org-bin
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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