Work-needing packages report for Aug 25, 2006
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: 322 (new: 13)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 100 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 24 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
entity (#384183), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: XML-based GUI builder for GTK+ (core library
development files)
Reverse Depends: entity entity-c entity-gl entity-javascript
entity-python entity-tcl libentity-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 83
flexbackup (#384184), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Flexible backup tool for small to medium sized
installations
Installations reported by Popcon: 119
gdtclft (#383651), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Tcl interface to GD graphics creation library
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
libtk-img (#383652), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Extended image format support for Tcl/Tk
Reverse Depends: ivi saods9
Installations reported by Popcon: 330
madman (#384397), orphaned yesterday
Description: An advanced music manager application
Installations reported by Popcon: 75
pipsecd (#384134), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: IPsec tunnel implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
tclmagick (#383653), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Tcl bindings for ImageMagick
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
tclparser (#383654), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Tcl extension to access Tcl's internal parser
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
tclthread (#383655), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Tcl extension implementing script level access to Tcl
threading capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
tclvfs (#383656), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Exposes Tcl 8.4's virtual filesystem C API to the Tcl
script level
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
tdom (#383657), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: an XML/DOM/XPath/XSLT implementation for Tcl
Installations reported by Popcon: 14
tkcon (#383658), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Enhanced interactive console for developing in Tcl
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
zapata (#383834), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Zapata telephony interface library (development)
Reverse Depends: bayonne libzap-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 89
309 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:
xdiskusage (#383913), offered 4 days ago
Description: Displays a graphic of your disk usage with du
Installations reported by Popcon: 245
xtrkcad (#383968), offered 4 days ago
Description: Model Train Track CAD Program
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
98 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 427 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client
Installations reported by Popcon: 49
apt-build (#365427), requested 117 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 446
apt-show-versions (#382026), requested 16 days ago
Description: lists available package versions with distribution
Installations reported by Popcon: 1762
athcool (#278442), requested 667 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 223
cvs (#354176), requested 182 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: bonsai crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage
cvs2cl cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta (16
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7488
docbook (#358522), requested 155 days ago
Description: standard SGML representation system for technical
documents
Reverse Depends: alcovebook-sgml docbook-dsssl docbook-to-man
sgmltools-lite
Installations reported by Popcon: 3285
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 155 days ago
Description: standard XML documentation system, for software and
systems
Reverse Depends: dblatex docbook-dsssl docbook-ebnf
docbook-html-forms docbook-jrefentry docbook-mathml docbook-simple
docbook-slides docbook-website docbook-xsl-stylesheets-ko (6 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 9043
dpkg (#282283), requested 642 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: alien alsa-source apt-build apt-src backuppc
build-essential clamsmtp crosshurd cvs-autoreleasedeb
cvs-buildpackage (84 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15052
grub (#248397), requested 836 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 11651
gtkpod (#319711), requested 396 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 380
mc (#380999), requested 23 days ago
Description: midnight commander - a powerful file manager
Reverse Depends: junior-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 4428
mwavem (#313369), requested 437 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
nas (#354174), requested 182 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 adonthell alsaplayer-nas apollon ark arson
asc audiooss avida-qt-viewer (244 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 10055
ntp (#373824), requested 70 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8776
openssl (#332498), requested 322 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: afbackup afbackup-client anon-proxy
aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl apache-dbg apache-ssl
apache2-common apache2-mpm-perchild apache2-mpm-prefork (531 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13443
parted (#262885), requested 752 days ago
Description: Searching co-maintainer for the parted package.
Reverse Depends: aboot-installer autopartkit gparted
libparted1.7-dbg libparted1.7-dev libparted1.7-i18n lvmcfg-utils
mindi partconf partconf-find-partitions (8 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 3369
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 716 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 389
sgml-data (#358521), requested 155 days ago
Description: common SGML and XML data
Reverse Depends: alml debiandoc-sgml debiandoc2dbxml docbook
docbook-xml epiphany-extensions linuxdoc-tools psgml sgmltexi
stardict-common (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 9453
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 752 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: libstlport4.6-dev openoffice.org-base
openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-dev
openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-evolution
openoffice.org-filter-so52 openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk
(6 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6553
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 46 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 433
tikiwiki (#370592), requested 80 days ago
Description: groupware and content management system
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
tpctl (#332648), requested 321 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 163
unicorn (#345547), requested 235 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
webalizer-stonesteps (#374455), requested 66 days ago
Description: Web server log file analysis program
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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