Work-needing packages report for May 12, 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: 299 (new: 3)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 80 (new: 2)
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:
bcm5700-source (#366806), orphaned today (non-free)
Description: module source for Broadcom's bcm5700 ethernet driver
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
qla2x00 (#366743), orphaned yesterday (non-free)
Description: Source for the qla2x00 driver for kernel version 2.4
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
request-tracker3.4 (#366551), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system
Reverse Depends: request-tracker3.4
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
296 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:
hlfl (#366525), offered 2 days ago
Description: translator for firewalling rules
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
xbattbar (#366524), offered 2 days ago
Description: Display battery status in X11
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
78 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 322 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-server
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
apt-build (#365427), requested 12 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 395
athcool (#278442), requested 562 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 213
cvs (#354176), requested 77 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: 6909
docbook (#358522), requested 50 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: 3358
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 50 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: 7502
dpkg (#282283), requested 537 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 (86 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12604
grub (#248397), requested 731 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 9430
gtkpod (#319711), requested 291 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 314
mwavem (#313369), requested 332 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
nas (#354174), requested 77 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: abakus abuse acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas apollon ark
arson asc audiooss (240 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8282
openssl (#332498), requested 217 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 (502 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 11110
parted (#262885), requested 647 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: 2391
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 611 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 70
sgml-data (#358521), requested 50 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: 7895
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 647 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: 4849
tpctl (#332648), requested 216 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 141
unicorn (#345547), requested 130 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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