Work-needing packages report for Jan 26, 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: 361 (new: 24)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 87 (new: 6)
Total number of packages requested help for: 38 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
adplay (#407626), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: console-based OPL2 audio player
Installations reported by Popcon: 19
adplug (#407624), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: free AdLib sound library
Reverse Depends: adplay adplug-utils libadplug-dev opencubicplayer
xmms-adplug
Installations reported by Popcon: 275
adplug-xmms (#407625), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: free AdLib sound library (xmms-plugin)
Installations reported by Popcon: 178
dcd (#407630), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: simple command-line CD player
Installations reported by Popcon: 102
dmalloc (#407637), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: debug memory allocation library
Reverse Depends: libdmalloc-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 148
firedns (#407545), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Runtime binaries for firedns, an asynch. dns resolver
library
Reverse Depends: dsbltesters libfiredns-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 42
firestring (#407546), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: a string handling library
Reverse Depends: dsbltesters firedns libfiredns-dev libfiredns0.9
libfirestring-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
flac123 (#407547), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: command-line flac player
Installations reported by Popcon: 352
knl (#407632), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Query/set kernel image parameters
Installations reported by Popcon: 63
leakbug (#407638), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: GNUpdate leakbug tracer library
Reverse Depends: libleakbug-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
libbinio (#407622), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: binary I/O stream class library
Reverse Depends: adplay adplug-utils libadplug0c2a libbinio-dev
opencubicplayer xmms-adplug
Installations reported by Popcon: 290
micro-inetd (#407660), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: simple network service spawner
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
micro-proxy (#407659), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: really small HTTP/HTTPS proxy
Installations reported by Popcon: 12
minit (#407656), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Small but powerful init system
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
nwall (#407633), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: version of wall that uses GNU readline
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
nwrite (#407636), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Enhanced replacement for the write command
Installations reported by Popcon: 26
pxe (#407907), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: free PXE daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
quack-el (#408288), orphaned yesterday
Description: Enhanced Emacs support for Scheme programming
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
sgrep (#407648), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: tool to search a file for structured pattern
Installations reported by Popcon: 262
slidentd (#407654), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: minimal ident (RfC 1413) daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 27
ttf-dustin (#407706), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Various TrueType fonts from dustismo.com
Reverse Depends: childsplay freewheeling khangman
Installations reported by Popcon: 5181
ttf-thryomanes (#407711), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: A Unicode font covering Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and IPA
Installations reported by Popcon: 1908
xed (#407640), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: The standard text editor, for X
Installations reported by Popcon: 35
xmem (#407639), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Visual indicator of amount of memory/swap usage
Installations reported by Popcon: 68
337 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:
gnome-doc-tools (#408085), offered 2 days ago
Description: Tools, stylesheets and DTDs for GNOME.
Installations reported by Popcon: 1913
gv (#407666), offered 5 days ago
Description: PostScript and PDF viewer for X
Reverse Depends: arb-common arb-doc gjots2 gtamsanalyzer.app
songwrite whizzytex wmaker-usersguide-ps
Installations reported by Popcon: 4981
iceconf (#408083), offered 2 days ago
Description: Configuration tool for icewm
Installations reported by Popcon: 191
php-imagick (#407669), offered 5 days ago
Description: ImageMagick module for php*
Reverse Depends: gosa
Installations reported by Popcon: 395
scsiadd (#407672), offered 5 days ago
Description: add or remove SCSI devices by rescanning the bus
Installations reported by Popcon: 480
snake4 (#407673), offered 5 days ago
Description: snake game
Installations reported by Popcon: 83
81 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 581 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 271 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 566
apt-cacher (#403584), requested 38 days ago
Description: caching proxy system for Debian package and source
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 242
apt-show-versions (#382026), requested 170 days ago
Description: lists available package versions with distribution
Installations reported by Popcon: 2177
athcool (#278442), requested 821 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 243
audacity (#397166), requested 81 days ago
Description: looking for co-maintainer
Installations reported by Popcon: 2522
cdw (#398252), requested 74 days ago
Description: Tool for burning CD's - console version
Reverse Depends: cdw gcdw
Installations reported by Popcon: 244
cvs (#354176), requested 336 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: 10946
docbook (#358522), requested 309 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: 3727
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 309 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: 17216
dpkg (#282283), requested 796 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: 26345
gpsdrive (#406522), requested 14 days ago
Description: Car navigation system
Installations reported by Popcon: 289
grub (#248397), requested 990 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 22570
gtkpod (#319711), requested 550 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 498
ispell-et (#391105), requested 113 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
lighttpd (#401575), requested 52 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: 374
loop-aes-modules (#385615), requested 147 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: 39
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 147 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: 483
mc (#380999), requested 177 days ago
Description: midnight commander - a powerful file manager
Reverse Depends: junior-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 6811
mwavem (#313369), requested 591 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 14
nas (#354174), requested 336 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: 18979
neverball (#387471), requested 133 days ago
Description: 3D arcade games: neverball & neverputt
Reverse Depends: junior-games-gl neverball
Installations reported by Popcon: 686
ntp (#373824), requested 224 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Reverse Depends: ntp-refclock ntp-simple radioclk
Installations reported by Popcon: 11277
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 107 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: 108
openssl (#332498), requested 476 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 (543 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 23704
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 870 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 249
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 113 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 270
scilab (#271364), requested 865 days ago (non-free)
Description: Matrix-based scientific software package
Reverse Depends: scilab
Installations reported by Popcon: 230
sgml-data (#358521), requested 309 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: 17651
silky (#387472), requested 133 days ago
Description: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) GTK+ based
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 906 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: 14959
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 200 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 597
tex4ht (#386269), requested 141 days ago
Description: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext
Reverse Depends: tex4ht texlive-full
Installations reported by Popcon: 749
tikiwiki (#370592), requested 234 days ago
Description: groupware and content management system
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
tpctl (#332648), requested 475 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 169
tsocks (#387473), requested 133 days ago
Description: transparent network access through a SOCKS 4 or 5 proxy
Reverse Depends: tor
Installations reported by Popcon: 853
unicorn (#345547), requested 389 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
webalizer-stonesteps (#374455), requested 220 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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