Work-needing packages report for Jan 4, 2008
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: 324 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 87 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 34 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
gtkfontsel (#458137), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: gtk+ font selection utility
Installations reported by Popcon: 735
pouetchess (#458055), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: beautiful chess program with buggy checkmate
Reverse Depends: pouetchess
Installations reported by Popcon: 88
322 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:
latex-ucs (#458380), offered 4 days ago
Description: support for using UTF-8 input encoding in LaTeX
documents
Reverse Depends: alml latex-ucs-contrib latex-ucs-dev muttprint
Installations reported by Popcon: 1366
phpgedview (#458087), offered 6 days ago
Description: Web-based genealogy viewer and editor
Reverse Depends: phpgedview-languages phpgedview-places
phpgedview-themes
Installations reported by Popcon: 63
85 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] cfs (#458061), requested 6 days ago
Description: Cryptographic Filesystem
Installations reported by Popcon: 113
aboot (#315592), requested 924 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 124
apt-build (#365427), requested 614 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 935
ara (#450876), requested 53 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
athcool (#278442), requested 1164 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 277
cdrskin (#450873), requested 53 days ago
Description: command line CD-R/CD-RW writing tool
Reverse Depends: k3b
Installations reported by Popcon: 433
cvs (#354176), requested 679 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: bonsai crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage
cvs2cl cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta (14
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 21672
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 68 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: debian-goodies dlocate feta haskell-devscripts
hg-buildpackage mlmmj sbuild simple-cdd
Installations reported by Popcon: 5867
dpkg (#282283), requested 1139 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 bzr-builddeb clamsmtp crosshurd (113 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 69330
elvis (#432298), requested 178 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Reverse Depends: elvis elvis-console elvis-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 296
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 26 days ago (non-free)
Description: non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver
Reverse Depends: fglrx-amdcccle
Installations reported by Popcon: 2104
gentoo (#422498), requested 242 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 270
grub (#248397), requested 1333 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild replicator startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 63944
imagemagick (#452314), requested 43 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale alml ascd
asymptote autotrace bins cimg-dev (82 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 27267
ispell-et (#391105), requested 456 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 48
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 490 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-486
loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-686 loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-686-bigmem
loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-alpha-generic
loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-alpha-legacy
loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-alpha-smp loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-amd64
loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-footbridge
loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-iop32x loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-itanium
(12 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 768
mol (#436450), requested 149 days ago
Description: The Mac-on-Linux emulator
Reverse Depends: mol-drivers-linux mol-drivers-macos
mol-drivers-macosx mol-modules-source
Installations reported by Popcon: 60
mwavem (#313369), requested 934 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
nas (#354174), requested 679 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amarok apollon ark arson
asc audiooss avida-qt-viewer (234 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 48959
ntp (#373824), requested 567 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Reverse Depends: radioclk
Installations reported by Popcon: 23537
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 262 days ago
Description: OpenOffice.org Office suite
Reverse Depends: broffice.org gnumed-client libuno-cil
mozilla-openoffice.org openoffice.org openoffice.org-base
openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core
openoffice.org-ctl-he (74 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 43650
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 450 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph6
libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 openscenegraph osgcal
Installations reported by Popcon: 163
openssl (#332498), requested 819 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: afbackup afbackup-client aircrack-ng alpine
alpine-pico anon-proxy aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-threaded-dev (557 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 67837
poppler (#423334), requested 237 days ago
Description: PDF rendering library and utilities
Reverse Depends: abiword-plugins claws-mail-pdf-viewer cupsys
epdfview evince evince-gtk gambas2-gb-pdf gimp
kdegraphics-kfile-plugins keyjnote (18 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 38097
rt2400 (#411791), requested 317 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 127
rt2570 (#411790), requested 317 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 252
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 456 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1165
sgml-data (#358521), requested 652 days ago
Description: common SGML and XML data
Reverse Depends: alml debiandoc-sgml debiandoc2dbxml docbook
docbook-simple docbook-xml epiphany-extensions linuxdoc-tools psgml
sgmltexi (5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45312
silky (#387472), requested 476 days ago
Description: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) GTK+ based
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
smlnj (#428273), requested 207 days ago
Description: Standard ML of New Jersey interactive compiler
Reverse Depends: libckit-smlnj libcml-smlnj libcmlutil-smlnj
libexene-smlnj libmlnlffi-smlnj libmlrisctools-smlnj
libpgraphutil-smlnj libsmlnj-smlnj ml-burg ml-lex (5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 89
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1249 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: kawari8 libstlport4.6-dev libuno-cil
mozilla-openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-base-core
openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-dev
openoffice.org-draw (11 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 42736
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 543 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1045
torrus (#433223), requested 172 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
unicorn (#345547), requested 732 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 48
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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