Work-needing packages report for May 26, 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: 285 (new: 3)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 77 (new: 0)
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:
aqsis (#368070), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: suite of applications implementing the RenderMan
Interface
Reverse Depends: aqsis aqsis-libs-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
pyching (#368820), orphaned yesterday
Description: iching consulation program
Installations reported by Popcon: 42
websieve (#368099), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Web based Cyrus IMAP user admin client
Installations reported by Popcon: 42
282 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.
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No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 77 packages
are awaiting adoption. 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 336 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-server
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
apt-build (#365427), requested 26 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 407
athcool (#278442), requested 576 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 221
cvs (#354176), requested 91 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: 7019
docbook (#358522), requested 64 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: 3350
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 64 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: 7737
dpkg (#282283), requested 551 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: alien alsa-source apt-build apt-src backuppc
build-essential clamsmtp crosshurd cvs-autoreleasedeb
cvs-buildpackage (85 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12897
grub (#248397), requested 745 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 9713
gtkpod (#319711), requested 305 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 318
mwavem (#313369), requested 346 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
nas (#354174), requested 91 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: abakus abuse acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas apollon ark
arson asc audiooss (242 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8549
openssl (#332498), requested 231 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 (520 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 11467
parted (#262885), requested 661 days ago
Description: Searching co-maintainer for the parted package.
Reverse Depends: aboot-installer elilo-installer libparted1.7-dbg
libparted1.7-dev libparted1.7-i18n lvmcfg-utils mindi parted
parted-udeb prep-installer
Installations reported by Popcon: 2415
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 625 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 75
sgml-data (#358521), requested 64 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: 8122
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 661 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: 5089
tpctl (#332648), requested 230 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 145
unicorn (#345547), requested 144 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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