Work-needing packages report for Apr 21, 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: 294 (new: 10)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 84 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 19 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
3dchess (#363498), orphaned yesterday
Description: 3D chess for X11
Installations reported by Popcon: 220
alltraxclock (#362929), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: analog clock plugin for GKrellM
Installations reported by Popcon: 116
alltraxclock2 (#362930), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: An analog clock plugin for GKrellM2
Installations reported by Popcon: 130
distributed-net (#363503), orphaned yesterday (non-free)
Description: donate unused CPU cycles - client for distributed.net
[non-free]
Reverse Depends: gkrelldnet
Installations reported by Popcon: 115
epic4-script-light (#363500), orphaned yesterday
Description: Light - It's Just Not Lame
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
hwb (#363504), orphaned yesterday (non-free)
Description: The Hardware Book
Installations reported by Popcon: 126
pfe (#363497), orphaned yesterday
Description: Portable Forth Environment, ANS standard, all wordsets.
Reverse Depends: pfe-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
rhyme (#363499), orphaned yesterday
Description: console based rhyming dictionary
Installations reported by Popcon: 34
sysadmin-guide (#363501), orphaned yesterday
Description: The Linux System Administrators' Guide
Installations reported by Popcon: 193
unalz (#362995), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: The utility used for decompressing alzip format file.
Installations reported by Popcon: 219
284 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:
noffle (#362879), offered 4 days ago
Description: offline news server
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
obexserver (#363689), offered today
Description: Receive files with OBEX protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 207
82 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 301 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-server
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
athcool (#278442), requested 541 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 207
cvs (#354176), requested 56 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: 6802
docbook (#358522), requested 29 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: 3364
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 29 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: 7381
dpkg (#282283), requested 516 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: 12182
grub (#248397), requested 710 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 9010
gtkpod (#319711), requested 270 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 302
mwavem (#313369), requested 311 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
nas (#354174), requested 56 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: abakus abuse acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas apollon ark
arson asc audiooss (243 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8090
openssl (#332498), requested 196 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 (508 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 10860
parted (#262885), requested 626 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: 2383
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 590 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 82
sgml-data (#358521), requested 29 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: 7774
sourcenav (#263051), requested 626 days ago
Description: Source code analysis, editor, browser and build tool:
Looking for co-maintainer
Installations reported by Popcon: 159
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 626 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: 4680
thinkpad (#353736), requested 195 days ago
Description: Source code and configuration files for
thinkpad-modules packages
Reverse Depends: tpctl
Installations reported by Popcon: 161
tpctl (#332648), requested 195 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 128
unicorn (#345547), requested 109 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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