Work-needing packages report for Jul 15, 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: 215 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 112 (new: 11)
Total number of packages requested help for: 13 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
diablo (#318303), orphaned today (non-free)
Description: News transport system without reader support.
Reverse Depends: diablo diablo-readerd ninpaths diablo-common
ibwebadmin (#318201), orphaned yesterday
Description: Web-based administration for the Firebird and Interbase
database
213 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:
dmalloc (#317427), offered 6 days ago
Description: debug memory allocation library
Reverse Depends: dmalloc libdmalloc4-dev
etask-el (#317808), offered 3 days ago
Description: Define and manage projects within Emacs with Gantt
f-prot-installer (#318002), offered 2 days ago
Description: F-Prot(tm) Antivirus installer package
libanydata-perl (#317403), offered 6 days ago
Description: simple tied hash interface for files and data
structures
Reverse Depends: libdbd-anydata-perl
libcgi-xml-perl (#317406), offered 6 days ago
Description: perl module for converting CGI variables from/to XML
libcgi-xmlapplication-perl (#317405), offered 6 days ago
Description: perl module for creating XML-DOM and OO based CGI
scripts
libcgi-xmlform-perl (#317407), offered 6 days ago
Description: perl module for reading/generating formatted XML
libdbd-anydata-perl (#317408), offered 6 days ago
Description: perl DBI driver for files and data structures
Reverse Depends: libdbd-ram-perl
libdbix-xml-rdb-perl (#317412), offered 6 days ago
Description: perl module for creating XML from a DBI datasource
libdbix-xmlmessage-perl (#317413), offered 6 days ago
Description: perl module for exchanging XML messages between DBI
data sources
libextutils-f77-perl (#317400), offered 6 days ago
Description: Simple interface to F77 libs
101 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:
aboot (#315592), requested 21 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot-cross dfsbuild aboot
athcool (#278442), requested 261 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
debtags (#262927), requested 346 days ago
Description: Evolution of package metadata
Reverse Depends: debtags-edit
dselect (#282283), requested 236 days ago
Description: a user tool to manage Debian packages
grub (#248397), requested 430 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: replicator grubconf dfsbuild webmin-grub
grub-splashimages
lsdvd (#316922), requested 10 days ago
Description: read the contents of a DVD
mwavem (#313369), requested 31 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
parted (#262885), requested 346 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 310 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: pbbuttonsd-dev gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome
powerprefs
qmailadmin (#267756), requested 324 days ago
Description: web interface for managing qmail with virtual domains
[contrib]
sourcenav (#263051), requested 346 days ago
Description: Source code analysis, editor, browser and build tool:
Looking for co-maintainer
squashfs (#267078), requested 328 days ago
Description: Tool to create and append to squashfs filesystems
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 346 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: libstlport4.6-dev openoffice.org-dev
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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