Work-needing packages report for Nov 10, 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: 319 (new: 8)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 88 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 35 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
beep-media-player (#396894), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Versatile audio player that supports Winamp skins
Reverse Depends: beep-media-player-dev beep-media-player-scrobbler
beep-media-player-wma bmp-alarm bmp-crossfade gxmms-bmp
Installations reported by Popcon: 787
c2n (#396830), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Tape transfer utility for CBM/Oric-1 machines
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
cbmconvert (#396831), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Converts different Commodore file formats between each
other
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
cbmlink (#396832), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Transfer data to/from Commodore 8-bit computers
Reverse Depends: cbmlink-cbmc2n cbmlink-cbmprg cbmlink-cbmutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 12
hwtools (#397723), orphaned yesterday
Description: collection of tools for low-level hardware management
Installations reported by Popcon: 881
lyskom-tty-client (#396833), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: TTY client for LysKOM
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
plplot (#396999), orphaned 5 days ago
Reverse Depends: libcsiro0 libplplot-c++9c2 libplplot-dev
libplplot-fortran9 libplplot9 octave-plplot pdl plplot-bin
plplot-tcl plplot-tcl-dev (6 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1160
quick-lounge-applet (#397777), orphaned today
Description: GNOME 2 Panel Applet to organize your preferred
applications
Installations reported by Popcon: 213
311 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.
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No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 88 packages
are awaiting adoption. 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] audacity (#397166), requested 4 days ago
Description: looking for co-maintainer
Installations reported by Popcon: 2009
aboot (#315592), requested 504 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
apt-build (#365427), requested 194 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 487
apt-show-versions (#382026), requested 93 days ago
Description: lists available package versions with distribution
Installations reported by Popcon: 1947
athcool (#278442), requested 744 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 227
cvs (#354176), requested 259 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: 8728
docbook (#358522), requested 232 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: 3473
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 232 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: 11285
dpkg (#282283), requested 719 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: 18680
grub (#248397), requested 913 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 15005
gtkpod (#319711), requested 473 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 457
ispell-et (#391105), requested 36 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
loop-aes-modules (#385615), requested 70 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: 43
loop-aes-source (#385437), requested 70 days ago
Description: loop-AES encryption Linux kernel modules (source)
Installations reported by Popcon: 158
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 70 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 (93 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 424
mc (#380999), requested 100 days ago
Description: midnight commander - a powerful file manager
Reverse Depends: junior-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 5331
mwavem (#313369), requested 514 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
nas (#354174), requested 259 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 adonthell adplay alsaplayer-nas amarok
anymeal apollon ark arson (251 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12590
neverball (#387471), requested 56 days ago
Description: 3D arcade games: neverball & neverputt
Reverse Depends: junior-games-gl neverball
Installations reported by Popcon: 529
ntp (#373824), requested 147 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Reverse Depends: ntp-refclock ntp-simple radioclk
Installations reported by Popcon: 9876
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 30 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: 50
openssl (#332498), requested 399 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-prefork-dev apache2-threaded-dev apache2-utils (530 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16629
parted (#262885), requested 829 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: 5901
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 793 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 271
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 36 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 210
sgml-data (#358521), requested 232 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: 11712
silky (#387472), requested 56 days ago
Description: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) GTK+ based
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 34
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 829 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: 7918
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 123 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 503
tex4ht (#386269), requested 64 days ago
Description: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext
Reverse Depends: tex4ht texlive-full
Installations reported by Popcon: 594
tikiwiki (#370592), requested 157 days ago
Description: groupware and content management system
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
tpctl (#332648), requested 398 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 182
tsocks (#387473), requested 56 days ago
Description: transparent network access through a SOCKS 4 or 5 proxy
Reverse Depends: tor
Installations reported by Popcon: 725
unicorn (#345547), requested 312 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
webalizer-stonesteps (#374455), requested 143 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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