Work-needing packages report for Jan 12, 2007
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: 339 (new: 14)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 82 (new: 7)
Total number of packages requested help for: 39 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
cadubi (#406350), orphaned yesterday
Description: Creative ASCII Drawing Utility By Ian
Installations reported by Popcon: 77
cfitsio (#405728), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: static library for I/O with FITS format data files
Reverse Depends: fv gdal-bin kst-plugins libcfitsio-dev
libgdal1-1.3.2 libgdal1-1.3.2-dev slang-cfitsio
Installations reported by Popcon: 817
cfitsio3 (#405733), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: static library for I/O with FITS format data files
Reverse Depends: libastro-fits-cfitsio-perl libcfitsio3-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
gtk-imonc (#406448), orphaned today
Description: monitor and control 'fli4l' one-diskette routers
Installations reported by Popcon: 28
ogre-contrib (#405768), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Ogre plugin: CgProgramManager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
quickplot (#405732), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: fast interactive 2D plotter and data viewer
Installations reported by Popcon: 82
setcd (#406134), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Control the behaviour of your cdrom device
Reverse Depends: gibraltar-bootsupport
Installations reported by Popcon: 352
smarteiffel (#406255), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: GNU Eiffel compiler, version 1
Reverse Depends: egnome egtk gobo
Installations reported by Popcon: 208
snack (#406132), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Sound functionality extension to the Tcl/Tk language
Reverse Depends: libsnack2-dev transcriber wavesurfer
Installations reported by Popcon: 207
tclex (#406135), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: A lexical analyzer generator for Tcl
Reverse Depends: transcriber
Installations reported by Popcon: 81
transcalc (#405730), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: microwave and RF transmission line calculator
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
transcriber (#406133), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Transcribe speech data using an integrated editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 61
wip (#405731), orphaned 6 days ago (non-free)
Description: Interactive graphic plotting package for high quality
output
Installations reported by Popcon: 209
yacas (#405734), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Computer Algebra System
Reverse Depends: yacas yacas-proteus
Installations reported by Popcon: 339
325 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:
acx100 (#405795), offered 5 days ago
Description: ACX100/ACX111 wireless network drivers source
Installations reported by Popcon: 139
gtans (#406508), offered today
Description: Tangram (puzzle) game using GTK+
Reverse Depends: junior-puzzle
Installations reported by Popcon: 294
libnews-nntpclient-perl (#406510), offered today
Description: News::NNTPClient, Perl support for accessing NNTP
servers
Reverse Depends: knewsticker-scripts
Installations reported by Popcon: 4973
normalize-audio (#406511), offered today
Description: adjust the volume of WAV files to a standard volume
level
Reverse Depends: mp3cd mp3roaster
Installations reported by Popcon: 1691
sn (#406347), offered yesterday
Description: Small NNTP server for leaf sites
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
xcruise (#406512), offered today
Description: Fly about a 3D-formed file system
Reverse Depends: junior-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 279
xdaliclock (#406513), offered today
Description: Melting digital clock
Installations reported by Popcon: 705
75 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] gpsdrive (#406522), requested today
Installations reported by Popcon: 286
aboot (#315592), requested 567 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client
Installations reported by Popcon: 57
apt-build (#365427), requested 257 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 541
apt-cacher (#403584), requested 24 days ago
Description: caching proxy system for Debian package and source
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 236
apt-show-versions (#382026), requested 156 days ago
Description: lists available package versions with distribution
Installations reported by Popcon: 2095
athcool (#278442), requested 807 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 233
audacity (#397166), requested 67 days ago
Description: looking for co-maintainer
Installations reported by Popcon: 2351
cdw (#398252), requested 60 days ago
Description: Tool for burning CD's - console version
Reverse Depends: cdw gcdw
Installations reported by Popcon: 255
cvs (#354176), requested 322 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: 10247
docbook (#358522), requested 295 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: 3606
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 295 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: 15817
dpkg (#282283), requested 782 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: alien alsa-source apt-build apt-cross apt-src
backuppc build-essential clamsmtp crosshurd cvs-autoreleasedeb (83
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 24309
grub (#248397), requested 976 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 20658
gtkpod (#319711), requested 536 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 477
ispell-et (#391105), requested 99 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 19
lighttpd (#401575), requested 38 days ago
Description: A fast webserver with minimal memory footprint
Reverse Depends: lighttpd-mod-cml lighttpd-mod-magnet
lighttpd-mod-mysql-vhost lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl
lighttpd-mod-webdav
Installations reported by Popcon: 332
loop-aes-modules (#385615), requested 133 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: 38
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 133 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 (94 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 461
mc (#380999), requested 163 days ago
Description: midnight commander - a powerful file manager
Reverse Depends: junior-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 6374
mwavem (#313369), requested 577 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 12
nas (#354174), requested 322 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 adonthell adplay alsaplayer-nas amarok
anymeal apollon ark arson (240 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 17411
neverball (#387471), requested 119 days ago
Description: 3D arcade games: neverball & neverputt
Reverse Depends: junior-games-gl neverball
Installations reported by Popcon: 643
ntp (#373824), requested 210 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Reverse Depends: ntp-refclock ntp-simple radioclk
Installations reported by Popcon: 10802
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 93 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenalpp-cvs-dev libopenalpp-cvs1
libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph4 libopenthreads-dev
libosgal-cvs1 libproducer-dev libproducer4 openscenegraph osgcal
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
openssl (#332498), requested 462 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: afbackup afbackup-client alpine alpine-pico
anon-proxy aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl apache-dbg
apache-ssl apache2-prefork-dev (539 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 21944
parted (#262885), requested 892 days ago
Description: Searching co-maintainer for the parted package.
Reverse Depends: aboot-installer autopartkit fatresize gparted
libparted1.7-dbg libparted1.7-dev libparted1.7-i18n lvmcfg-utils
mindi partconf (9 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 10447
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 856 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 233
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 99 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 230
scilab (#271364), requested 851 days ago (non-free)
Description: Matrix-based scientific software package
Reverse Depends: scilab
Installations reported by Popcon: 196
sgml-data (#358521), requested 295 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: 16238
silky (#387472), requested 119 days ago
Description: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) GTK+ based
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 34
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 892 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
(5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13601
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 186 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 572
tex4ht (#386269), requested 127 days ago
Description: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext
Reverse Depends: tex4ht texlive-full
Installations reported by Popcon: 692
tikiwiki (#370592), requested 220 days ago
Description: groupware and content management system
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
tpctl (#332648), requested 461 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 182
tsocks (#387473), requested 119 days ago
Description: transparent network access through a SOCKS 4 or 5 proxy
Reverse Depends: tor
Installations reported by Popcon: 817
unicorn (#345547), requested 375 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
webalizer-stonesteps (#374455), requested 206 days ago
Description: Web server log file analysis program
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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