Work-needing packages report for Apr 7, 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: 278 (new: 16)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 99 (new: 11)
Total number of packages requested help for: 21 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
achilles (#361167), orphaned today
Description: An artificial life and evolution simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
bfr (#360672), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: nonblocking 8-bit-clean pipe buffer
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
chbg (#360264), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: tool for changing the desktop background image in X11
Installations reported by Popcon: 125
cl-ftp (#361169), orphaned today
Description: Common Lisp FTP library
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
cl-sdl (#361166), orphaned today
Description: Support for the SDL_ttf library in Common Lisp
Reverse Depends: cl-grt cl-sdl-demos cl-sdl-img cl-sdl-mix
cl-sdl-opengl cl-sdl-ttf
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
compilercache (#360266), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: a caching wrapper around compilers to speed up
compilations
Installations reported by Popcon: 28
drawmap (#361015), orphaned yesterday
Description: draws customized maps, using raw USGS data files
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
ipw2100 (#360632), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: source for the ipw2100 driver
Installations reported by Popcon: 81
libapache-mod-lisp (#361168), orphaned today
Description: An Apache module that interfaces with Lisp environments
Reverse Depends: cl-modlisp
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
njbtools (#361002), orphaned yesterday
Description: Tools for interfacing with libnjb
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
ploticus (#361016), orphaned yesterday
Description: A script driven business graphics package
Installations reported by Popcon: 131
ploticus-doc (#361017), orphaned yesterday
Description: Documentation and gallery of examples for ploticus
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
sanduhr (#360269), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: an alarm clock, which is designed as a hourglass
Installations reported by Popcon: 103
sgf2tex (#361151), orphaned today
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
xml-resume-library (#361013), orphaned yesterday
Description: A set of tools for writing a resume in XML
Installations reported by Popcon: 80
zope-zshell (#361018), orphaned yesterday
Description: command line interface to Zope
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
262 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:
blam (#360583), offered 3 days ago
Description: an RSS aggregator for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 123
html2ps (#360940), offered yesterday
Description: HTML to PostScript converter
Reverse Depends: alml xhtml2ps
Installations reported by Popcon: 924
libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl (#360941), offered yesterday
Description: interoperable MD5-based crypt() for perl
Reverse Depends: makepasswd remstats
Installations reported by Popcon: 1250
libmusicbrainz-2.1 (#360943), offered yesterday
Description: Second generation incarnation of the CD Index
Reverse Depends: banshee beep-media-player-scrobbler cynthiune.app
dcd k3b libmusicbrainz-client-perl libmusicbrainz-ruby1.8
libmusicbrainz4-dev libtunepimp-bin libtunepimp3 (12 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 4577
libxml-twig-perl (#360944), offered yesterday
Description: Perl module for processing huge XML documents in tree
mode
Reverse Depends: libanydata-perl libgraphviz-perl libxmltv-perl
libxtm-perl mipe xmltv-gui xmltv-util
Installations reported by Popcon: 1107
libxml-writer-perl (#360945), offered yesterday
Description: Perl module for writing XML documents
Reverse Depends: bins gnuift-perl libbric-perl libxmltv-perl
libxtm-perl vim-vimoutliner xmltv-gui xmltv-util
Installations reported by Popcon: 1065
phalanx (#360946), offered yesterday
Description: Chess playing program
Installations reported by Popcon: 156
resolvconf (#360215), offered 6 days ago
Description: nameserver information handler
Installations reported by Popcon: 1218
sgf2tex (#361151), offered today
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
texi2html (#360947), offered yesterday
Description: Convert Texinfo files to HTML
Reverse Depends: translate-docformat
Installations reported by Popcon: 2285
xboard (#360942), offered yesterday
Description: An X Window System Chess Board
Installations reported by Popcon: 514
88 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] debram (#360250), requested 6 days ago
Description: ramified catalog of available .debs
Reverse Depends: debram
Installations reported by Popcon: 146
aboot (#315592), requested 287 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-server
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
athcool (#278442), requested 527 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 212
cvs (#354176), requested 42 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: bonsai cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
cvs2html cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta cvsps cvsreport (15 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6643
docbook (#358522), requested 15 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: 3349
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 15 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: 7011
dpkg (#282283), requested 502 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: alien alsa-source and apt-build apt-src backuppc
build-essential clamsmtp crosshurd cvs-autoreleasedeb (87 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 11649
grub (#248397), requested 696 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 8487
gtkpod (#319711), requested 256 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 295
mwavem (#313369), requested 297 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
nas (#354174), requested 42 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: abakus abuse acm acm4 adplay alsaplayer-nas apollon
ark arson asc (251 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7679
openssl (#332498), requested 182 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: afbackup afbackup-client amap amaya anon-proxy
aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl apache-dbg apache-ssl
apache2-common (511 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 10391
parted (#262885), requested 612 days ago
Description: Searching co-maintainer for the parted package.
Reverse Depends: aboot-installer autopartkit elilo-installer gparted
libparted-swig-perl libparted1.6-dbg libparted1.6-dev
libparted1.6-i18n lvmcfg-utils mindi (9 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2354
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 576 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 74
phpgroupware (#339625), requested 140 days ago
Description: web based groupware suite
Reverse Depends: phpgroupware phpgroupware-addressbook
phpgroupware-admin phpgroupware-bookmarks phpgroupware-calendar
phpgroupware-chat phpgroupware-comic phpgroupware-developer-tools
phpgroupware-dj phpgroupware-eldaptir (34 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
sgml-data (#358521), requested 15 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: 7399
sourcenav (#263051), requested 612 days ago
Description: Source code analysis, editor, browser and build tool:
Looking for co-maintainer
Installations reported by Popcon: 166
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 612 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-impress (5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 4304
thinkpad (#353736), requested 181 days ago
Description: Source code and configuration files for
thinkpad-modules packages
Reverse Depends: tpctl
Installations reported by Popcon: 152
tpctl (#332648), requested 181 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 124
unicorn (#345547), requested 95 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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