Work-needing packages report for Aug 11, 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: 319 (new: 0)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 84 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 26 (new: 2)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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No new packages have been orphaned, but a total of 319 packages are
orphaned. 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:
owl-dms (#382266), offered yesterday
Description: intranet Knowledgebase or DMS
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
xbanner (#382267), offered yesterday
Description: Beautify your X login screen
Installations reported by Popcon: 101
xfe (#382268), offered yesterday
Description: lightweight file manager for X11
Installations reported by Popcon: 220
81 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] apt-show-versions (#382026), requested 2 days ago
Description: lists available package versions with distribution
Installations reported by Popcon: 1737
[NEW] mailman (#382128), requested 2 days ago
Description: Powerful, web-based mailing list manager
Reverse Depends: gforge-lists-mailman
Installations reported by Popcon: 550
aboot (#315592), requested 413 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-server
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
apt-build (#365427), requested 103 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 433
athcool (#278442), requested 653 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 225
cvs (#354176), requested 168 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: bonsai cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta cvsps (16 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7312
docbook (#358522), requested 141 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: 3277
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 141 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: 8533
dpkg (#282283), requested 628 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 (83 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 14259
grub (#248397), requested 822 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 10943
gtkpod (#319711), requested 382 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 375
lirc (#364606), requested 108 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 (15 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8032
mc (#380999), requested 9 days ago
Description: midnight commander - a powerful file manager
Reverse Depends: junior-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 4331
mwavem (#313369), requested 423 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
nas (#354174), requested 168 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: abakus acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas apollon ark arson
asc audiooss avida-qt-viewer (244 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 9471
ntp (#373824), requested 56 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8542
openssl (#332498), requested 308 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: afbackup afbackup-client amap anon-proxy
aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl apache-dbg apache-ssl
apache2-common apache2-mpm-perchild (526 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12755
parted (#262885), requested 738 days ago
Description: Searching co-maintainer for the parted package.
Reverse Depends: aboot-installer autopartkit gparted
libparted1.7-dbg libparted1.7-dev libparted1.7-i18n lvmcfg-utils
mindi partconf partconf-find-partitions (8 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2538
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 702 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 587
sgml-data (#358521), requested 141 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: 8940
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 738 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-gtk
(6 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6052
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 32 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 458
tikiwiki (#370592), requested 66 days ago
Description: groupware and content management system
Installations reported by Popcon: 2
tpctl (#332648), requested 307 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 166
unicorn (#345547), requested 221 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
webalizer-stonesteps (#374455), requested 52 days ago
Description: Web server log file analysis program
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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