Work-needing packages report for Feb 22, 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: 357 (new: 65)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 90 (new: 5)
Total number of packages requested help for: 35 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
ada-mode (#465891), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Ada mode for GNU Emacs and XEmacs
Installations reported by Popcon: 100
attal-themes-medieval (#465965), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: medieval theme for attal
Reverse Depends: attal
Installations reported by Popcon: 236
autogen (#466329), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: an automated text file generator
Reverse Depends: autogen libopts25-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 1902
chatbot-eliza (#465879), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Eliza chat bot interface module for Perl
Installations reported by Popcon: 89
colormake (#465892), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: simple wrapper around make to colorize output
Installations reported by Popcon: 521
cronolog (#465934), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Logfile rotator for web servers
Reverse Depends: gforge-web-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 282
dbishell (#465851), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Interactive SQL shell with readline support
Installations reported by Popcon: 850
dep.pl (#465899), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: The dependency analyst
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
docbook-xsl-stylesheets-ko (#465992), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Stylesheets for processing DocBook XML files to HTML
and FO in korean.
Installations reported by Popcon: 42
f2c (#465909), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: A FORTRAN 77 to C/C++ translator.
Reverse Depends: fort77 octave2.1-headers octave2.9-headers
Installations reported by Popcon: 831
fortunes-debian-hints (#465936), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Debian Hints for fortune
Installations reported by Popcon: 1289
freesweep (#465927), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: a text-based minesweeper
Installations reported by Popcon: 122
fujiplay (#465893), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Interface for Fuji digital cameras
Installations reported by Popcon: 67
gcal (#465930), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Prints calendars
Installations reported by Popcon: 346
gnurobbo (#465941), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: GNU Robbo is logic game ported from ATARI XE/XL
Installations reported by Popcon: 134
grcm (#465890), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: GNOME application to initiate connections to remote
machines
Installations reported by Popcon: 151
groundhog (#465949), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: A simple logic game
Installations reported by Popcon: 127
hnb (#465888), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Hierarchical notebook
Installations reported by Popcon: 215
html-munger (#465881), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Module which simplifies the creation of web filters.
Installations reported by Popcon: 46
ikvm (#466336), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Java virtual machine/compiler implemented in .NET
(Mono)
Reverse Depends: ikvm
Installations reported by Popcon: 109
jailtool (#465905), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Tool to build chroot-jails for daemons
Installations reported by Popcon: 100
joystick (#465928), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Testing and calibration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 639
kdrill (#465962), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: A Kanji drill and dictionary program
Installations reported by Popcon: 82
knetfilter (#465898), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: GUI for configuring the 2.4 kernel IP Tables
Installations reported by Popcon: 323
kxdocker (#465913), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: innovative docker for KDE that is like Mac OSX Docker
Reverse Depends: kxdocker-data
Installations reported by Popcon: 347
kxdocker-data (#465914), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: resource files for kxdocker
Installations reported by Popcon: 244
lgc-pg (#465943), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: LGeneral Converter for Panzer General
Installations reported by Popcon: 59
lgeneral (#465942), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: A "Panzer General" - like game
Installations reported by Popcon: 174
libapache-dbilogconfig-perl (#465858), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Apache::DBILogConfig: Logs access information in a DBI
database
Installations reported by Popcon: 73
libdata-showtable-perl (#465857), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Print arrays of data in a formatted listing
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
libdockapp (#465917), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Window Maker Dock App support (shared library)
Reverse Depends: libdockapp-dev wmacpi wmail wmdate wmnetload wmusic
wsoundserver
Installations reported by Popcon: 615
libf2c2 (#465911), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Development libraries for use with f2c
Reverse Depends: f2c libf2c2-dev mopac7-bin nec tochnog
Installations reported by Popcon: 962
libjsw (#466866), orphaned today
Description: joystick library
Reverse Depends: jscalibrator libjsw-dev searchandrescue
Installations reported by Popcon: 988
libtar (#465889), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: C library for manipulating tar archives
Reverse Depends: libtar-dev stopmotion vlc
Installations reported by Popcon: 14004
libxml++ (#465961), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: A C++ interface to the GNOME XML library (libxml2)
Reverse Depends: libxml++1.0-dev ofx passepartout
Installations reported by Popcon: 731
limo (#465886), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Lists files in a custom way
Installations reported by Popcon: 60
lpc-mode (#465852), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Emacs mode for the LPC language
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
markdown (#466330), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Text-to-HTML conversion tool
Reverse Depends: ikiwiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 360
nec (#465910), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: NEC2 Antenna Modelling System
Installations reported by Popcon: 83
net-hotline (#465880), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Hotline interface module for Perl
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
nrg2iso (#465878), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Extracts ISO9660 data from Nero ".nrg" files
Installations reported by Popcon: 1098
perlsgml (#465900), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: tools to build and analyze SGML or XML document type
definitions.
Installations reported by Popcon: 300
pkglist (#466622), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Package List Corrector
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
ratfor (#465906), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Rational Fortran preprocessor for Fortran 77
Installations reported by Popcon: 56
rbootd (#465907), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Remote Boot Daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
rman (#465951), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: PolyglotMan - Reverse compile man pages
Reverse Depends: tkman
Installations reported by Popcon: 511
rpm2html (#465897), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Generate HTML index from directories of RPMs
Installations reported by Popcon: 37
saods9 (#465959), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: image display tool for astronomy
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
sdr (#465856), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: An Mbone Conference Scheduling and Booking System (SDR)
Installations reported by Popcon: 131
sniffit (#465931), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: packet sniffer and monitoring tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 528
startalk (#465953), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Read/Write Motorola StarTac Phone Book Entries via
Serial
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
sylpheed-claws (#466286), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Extended version of the Sylpheed mail client
Reverse Depends: sylpheed-claws-clamav sylpheed-claws-dillo-viewer
sylpheed-claws-ghostscript-viewer sylpheed-claws-i18n
sylpheed-claws-image-viewer sylpheed-claws-maildir-plugin
sylpheed-claws-pgpinline-plugin sylpheed-claws-pgpmime
sylpheed-claws-plugins sylpheed-claws-spamassassin (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 413
sysfence (#465940), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: System resources guard
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
tama (#465904), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Net Tamagotchi server
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
tina (#466331), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: A curses personal information manager.
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
tkping (#465952), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Perl/Tk app. - Monitor hosts on network
Installations reported by Popcon: 42
tktable2.9 (#465957), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Table extension for Tcl/Tk
Reverse Depends: saods9
Installations reported by Popcon: 274
tuxkart (#465859), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: A 3D go-kart racing game
Reverse Depends: tuxkart
Installations reported by Popcon: 1203
u++ (#465876), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Object-oriented concurrent language extensions for C++
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
wmnetselect (#465883), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Enhanced Netscape launch button designed for
WindowMaker
Installations reported by Popcon: 149
wmtemp (#465958), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: WM dock applet displaying lm_sensors temperature values
Installations reported by Popcon: 166
wsoundprefs (#465918), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Preferences editor for the Window Maker sound server
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
wsoundserver (#465919), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Window Maker Sound Server
Reverse Depends: libwsound-dev wsoundprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 82
xdkcal (#465882), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Desktop Calendar for X
Installations reported by Popcon: 89
xnecview (#465908), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: NEC structure and gain pattern viewer
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
292 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:
dirdiff (#466481), offered 3 days ago
Description: Display and merge changes between two directory trees.
Installations reported by Popcon: 325
fontforge (#466245), offered 4 days ago
Description: Font editor for PS, TrueType and OpenType fonts
Reverse Depends: python-fontforge
Installations reported by Popcon: 1690
libspiro (#466246), offered 4 days ago
Description: A mechanism for drawing smooth contours with constant
curvature at the spline joins.
Reverse Depends: fontforge libspiro-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 739
libuninameslist (#466247), offered 4 days ago
Description: a library of Unicode annotation data
Reverse Depends: fontforge libuninameslist-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 1275
lsadb (#466580), offered 2 days ago
Description: Utility to scan devices on the ADB bus
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
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:
aboot (#315592), requested 973 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 126
apt-build (#365427), requested 663 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 980
ara (#450876), requested 102 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 117
athcool (#278442), requested 1213 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 271
cfs (#458061), requested 55 days ago
Description: Cryptographic Filesystem
Installations reported by Popcon: 118
cvs (#354176), requested 728 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta cvsps (13 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 22901
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 117 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: 6083
dpkg (#282283), requested 1188 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 (107 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 75707
drscheme (#402589), requested 437 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 377
elvis (#432298), requested 227 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: 307
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 75 days ago (non-free)
Description: non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver
Reverse Depends: fglrx-amdcccle
Installations reported by Popcon: 2264
gentoo (#422498), requested 291 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 291
grub (#248397), requested 1382 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild replicator startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 69717
imagemagick (#452314), requested 92 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ascd asymptote bins
cimg-dev curator dblatex docbook2odf (58 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 23330
ispell-et (#391105), requested 505 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
lirc (#364606), requested 668 days ago
Description: infra-red remote control support
Reverse Depends: audacious-plugins-dev audacious-plugins-extra
digitaldj fbtv gkrellm-radio gnomeradio gxine irmp3 kradio
liblircclient-dev (21 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 49021
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 539 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 803
mol (#436450), requested 198 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: 76
mwavem (#313369), requested 983 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
nas (#354174), requested 728 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amarok apollon ark arson
audiooss avida-qt-viewer bibletime (232 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 53646
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 311 days ago
Description: OpenOffice.org Office suite
Reverse Depends: broffice.org libuno-cil mozilla-openoffice.org
openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc
openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-ctl-he
openoffice.org-dev (79 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 47691
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 499 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph6
libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 openscenegraph osgcal
Installations reported by Popcon: 178
openssl (#332498), requested 868 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: afbackup afbackup-client aircrack-ng alpine
anon-proxy aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-threaded-dev apache2-utils (556 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 74350
poppler (#423334), requested 286 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 (20 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 42302
rt2400 (#411791), requested 366 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 144
rt2570 (#411790), requested 366 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 279
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 505 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1378
sgml-data (#358521), requested 701 days ago
Description: common SGML and XML data
Reverse Depends: debiandoc-sgml debiandoc2dbxml docbook
docbook-simple docbook-xml epiphany-extensions linuxdoc-tools psgml
stardict-common w3c-dtd-xhtml (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 49779
silky (#387472), requested 525 days ago
Description: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) GTK+ based
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 41
smlnj (#428273), requested 256 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: 93
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1298 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 (15 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45940
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 592 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1176
torrus (#433223), requested 221 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
unicorn (#345547), requested 781 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 61
wxwidgets2.6 (#463807), requested 18 days ago
Description: wxwidgets2.8 may be packaged
Reverse Depends: amaya amule amule-daemon amule-utils
amule-utils-gui audacity bacula-console-wx beid-tools beidgui bitpim
(85 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 23260
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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