Work-needing packages report for Sep 8, 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: 310 (new: 3)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 105 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 29 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
jedstate (#385744), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Extended mind for John E. Davis' text editor jed
Installations reported by Popcon: 61
obconf (#385988), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Preferences manager for Openbox
Installations reported by Popcon: 263
swish++ (#385743), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Simple Document Indexing System for Humans: C++ version
Installations reported by Popcon: 529
307 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:
bogl (#385919), offered 4 days ago
Description: Ben's Own Graphics Library - graphical terminal
Reverse Depends: bterm-unifont libbogl-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 100
hwinfo (#386035), offered 3 days ago
Description: Hardware identification system
Reverse Depends: hwinfo libhd13-dev xdebconfigurator
Installations reported by Popcon: 1183
103 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:
[NEW] tex4ht (#386269), requested yesterday
Description: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext
Reverse Depends: tex4ht texlive-full
Installations reported by Popcon: 507
aboot (#315592), requested 441 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
apt-build (#365427), requested 131 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 454
apt-show-versions (#382026), requested 30 days ago
Description: lists available package versions with distribution
Installations reported by Popcon: 1815
athcool (#278442), requested 681 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 228
cvs (#354176), requested 196 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: 7794
docbook (#358522), requested 169 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: 3355
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 169 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: 9647
dpkg (#282283), requested 656 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 (83 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15917
gnuplot (#385546), requested 7 days ago
Description: A command-line driven interactive plotting program
Reverse Depends: aladin alml battery-stats gausssum gnuplot
gnuplot-mode gnuplot-x11 isag libgnuplot-ruby1.8 maxima (6 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 3273
grub (#248397), requested 850 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 12486
gtkpod (#319711), requested 410 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 407
loop-aes-modules (#385615), requested 7 days ago
Description: loop-AES modules
Reverse Depends: loop-aes-2.6-486 loop-aes-2.6-686
loop-aes-2.6-686-bigmem loop-aes-2.6-alpha-generic
loop-aes-2.6-alpha-legacy loop-aes-2.6-alpha-smp loop-aes-2.6-amd64
loop-aes-2.6-k7 loop-aes-2.6-parisc loop-aes-2.6-parisc-smp (16 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 28
loop-aes-source (#385437), requested 7 days ago
Description: loop-AES encryption Linux kernel modules (source)
Installations reported by Popcon: 131
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 7 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: loop-aes-2.6.17-2-486 loop-aes-2.6.17-2-486-di
loop-aes-2.6.17-2-686 loop-aes-2.6.17-2-686-bigmem
loop-aes-2.6.17-2-alpha-generic loop-aes-2.6.17-2-alpha-generic-di
loop-aes-2.6.17-2-alpha-legacy loop-aes-2.6.17-2-alpha-smp
loop-aes-2.6.17-2-amd64 loop-aes-2.6.17-2-amd64-di (30 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 373
mc (#380999), requested 37 days ago
Description: midnight commander - a powerful file manager
Reverse Depends: junior-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 4617
mwavem (#313369), requested 451 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
nas (#354174), requested 196 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 adonthell alsaplayer-nas apollon ark arson
asc audiooss avida-qt-viewer (242 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 10699
ntp (#373824), requested 84 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 9084
openssl (#332498), requested 336 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 (526 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 14214
parted (#262885), requested 766 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: 3963
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 730 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 351
sgml-data (#358521), requested 169 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: 10052
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 766 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: 7061
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 60 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 441
tikiwiki (#370592), requested 94 days ago
Description: groupware and content management system
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
tpctl (#332648), requested 335 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 168
unicorn (#345547), requested 249 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
webalizer-stonesteps (#374455), requested 80 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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