Work-needing packages report for Oct 20, 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: 333 (new: 16)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 106 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 34 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
gs-afpl (#393923), orphaned yesterday (non-free)
Description: The AFPL Ghostscript PostScript interpreter
Reverse Depends: courier-faxmail gs-aladdin gs-cjk-resource hpijs
ijsgutenprint logidee-tools preview-latex raster3d scribus
scribus-ng
Installations reported by Popcon: 365
honyaku-el (#392901), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Honyaku-damashii client for emacsen
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
kid3 (#393170), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: KDE MP3 ID3 tag editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 324
kompose (#393035), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: full screen task manager for KDE
Installations reported by Popcon: 289
ksimus (#393290), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: KDE tool for simulating electrical circuits
Reverse Depends: ksimus-boolean ksimus-datarecorder ksimus-dev
ksimus-floatingpoint
Installations reported by Popcon: 383
ksimus-boolean (#393291), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: KSimus boolean package
Installations reported by Popcon: 348
ksimus-datarecorder (#393292), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: KSimus datarecorder package
Installations reported by Popcon: 344
kwave (#393172), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: sound editor for KDE
Installations reported by Popcon: 478
libctl (#393104), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Library for flexible control files
Reverse Depends: libctl-dev mpb mpb-mpi
Installations reported by Popcon: 17
lineak-defaultplugin (#393175), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: LinEAK default plugin
Installations reported by Popcon: 182
lineak-kdeplugins (#393177), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: LinEAK KDE plugins
Installations reported by Popcon: 169
lineak-xosdplugin (#393178), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: LinEAK On-Screen Display plugin
Installations reported by Popcon: 177
lineakd (#393174), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Linux support for Easy Access and Internet Keyboards
Reverse Depends: klineakconfig liblineak-dev lineak-defaultplugin
lineak-kdeplugins lineak-xosdplugin lineakd
Installations reported by Popcon: 304
mpb (#393107), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: MIT Photonic-Bands
Reverse Depends: mpb-mpi
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
tex-guy (#393925), orphaned yesterday
Description: miscellaneous utilities using DVIlib
Reverse Depends: dvilib2-dev spawg spawx11 tex-guy xgdvi
Installations reported by Popcon: 147
vflib3 (#393580), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: a font rasterizer library for multi-lingual information
Reverse Depends: asiya24-vfont dvilib2 vflib3-bin vflib3-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 227
317 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:
ethstatus (#394092), offered today
Description: Console-based ethernet statistics monitor
Installations reported by Popcon: 283
prestimel (#393256), offered 4 days ago
Description: tool to create presentations from an XML-file
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
xbvl (#393259), offered 4 days ago
Description: A Lisp implementation developed at Paris 8 University
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
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:
aboot (#315592), requested 483 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client
Installations reported by Popcon: 61
apt-build (#365427), requested 173 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 464
apt-show-versions (#382026), requested 72 days ago
Description: lists available package versions with distribution
Installations reported by Popcon: 1906
athcool (#278442), requested 723 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 231
cvs (#354176), requested 238 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: 8269
docbook (#358522), requested 211 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: 3489
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 211 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: 10789
dpkg (#282283), requested 698 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 (82 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 17813
grub (#248397), requested 892 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 14149
gtkpod (#319711), requested 452 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 438
ispell-et (#391105), requested 15 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 14
loop-aes-modules (#385615), requested 49 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-footbridge loop-aes-2.6-iop32x loop-aes-2.6-itanium (24
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 33
loop-aes-source (#385437), requested 49 days ago
Description: loop-AES encryption Linux kernel modules (source)
Installations reported by Popcon: 153
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 49 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 (81 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 405
mc (#380999), requested 79 days ago
Description: midnight commander - a powerful file manager
Reverse Depends: junior-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 5118
mwavem (#313369), requested 493 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
nas (#354174), requested 238 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 adonthell adplay alsaplayer-nas amarok
anymeal apollon ark arson (254 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 11959
neverball (#387471), requested 35 days ago
Description: 3D arcade games: neverball & neverputt
Reverse Depends: junior-games-gl neverball
Installations reported by Popcon: 515
ntp (#373824), requested 126 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Reverse Depends: ntp-refclock ntp-simple radioclk
Installations reported by Popcon: 9459
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 9 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenalpp-cvs-dev libopenalpp-cvs1
libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph4 libopenthreads-dev
libosgal-cvs1 libproducer-dev libproducer4 openscenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
openssl (#332498), requested 378 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-mpm-prefork apache2-mpm-worker apache2-prefork-dev (529 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15781
parted (#262885), requested 808 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: 5324
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 772 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 291
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 15 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 209
sgml-data (#358521), requested 211 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: 11212
silky (#387472), requested 35 days ago
Description: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) GTK+ based
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 33
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 808 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: libstlport4.6-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 6101
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 102 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 489
tex4ht (#386269), requested 43 days ago
Description: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext
Reverse Depends: tex4ht texlive-full
Installations reported by Popcon: 570
tikiwiki (#370592), requested 136 days ago
Description: groupware and content management system
Installations reported by Popcon: 2
tpctl (#332648), requested 377 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 183
tsocks (#387473), requested 35 days ago
Description: transparent network access through a SOCKS 4 or 5 proxy
Reverse Depends: tor
Installations reported by Popcon: 722
unicorn (#345547), requested 291 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
webalizer-stonesteps (#374455), requested 122 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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