Work-needing packages report for Apr 28, 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: 297 (new: 8)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 86 (new: 4)
Total number of packages requested help for: 18 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
autopilot (#364470), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Monitor the DTR line of /dev/palm and run a command to
start sync
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
emelfm (#364442), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: file manager for X/gtk
Installations reported by Popcon: 78
eroaster (#364280), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: A GNOME CD burning frontend
Installations reported by Popcon: 143
mgapdesk (#364344), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: configuration tool for Matrox video card
Installations reported by Popcon: 69
rfb (#364347), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: VNC Server for X11 - exports current display
Installations reported by Popcon: 265
svn-arch-mirror (#364859), orphaned yesterday
Description: one-way mirroring from Subversion to Arch revision
control
Installations reported by Popcon: 37
svncviewer (#364499), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: virtual network computing client software for SVGA
Installations reported by Popcon: 190
xclass (#364349), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: C++ GUI toolkit for X
Reverse Depends: libxclass0-dev libxclass0c2 rfb
Installations reported by Popcon: 238
289 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:
hypermail (#364616), offered 3 days ago
Description: Create HTML archives of mailing lists
Installations reported by Popcon: 122
lirc (#364606), offered 3 days ago
Description: Linux Infra-red Remote Control support
Reverse Depends: digitaldj fbtv gkrellm-radio gxine irmp3 kradio
liblircclient-dev lirc lirc-svga lirc-x (12 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6822
mambo (#364129), offered 6 days ago
Description: web content management system
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
qpopper (#364615), offered 3 days ago
Description: Enhanced Post Office Protocol server (POP3).
Installations reported by Popcon: 575
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 308 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-server
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
athcool (#278442), requested 548 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 209
cvs (#354176), requested 63 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: 6856
docbook (#358522), requested 36 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: 3363
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 36 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: 7471
dpkg (#282283), requested 523 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: 12352
grub (#248397), requested 717 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 9172
gtkpod (#319711), requested 277 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 310
mwavem (#313369), requested 318 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
nas (#354174), requested 63 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: abakus abuse acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas apollon ark
arson asc audiooss (241 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8209
openssl (#332498), requested 203 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 (507 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 10980
parted (#262885), requested 633 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: 2384
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 597 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 80
sgml-data (#358521), requested 36 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: 7873
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 633 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: 4792
thinkpad (#353736), requested 202 days ago
Description: Source code and configuration files for
thinkpad-modules packages
Reverse Depends: tpctl
Installations reported by Popcon: 158
tpctl (#332648), requested 202 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 126
unicorn (#345547), requested 116 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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