Work-needing packages report for Sep 15, 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: 310 (new: 6)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 93 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 31 (new: 3)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
convertfs (#386967), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: in-place filesystem conversion
Installations reported by Popcon: 107
gsetroot (#387474), orphaned today
Description: a C/Gtk-based front-end for Esetroot
Installations reported by Popcon: 35
ipkungfu (#387475), orphaned today
Description: iptables-based Linux firewall
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
nanoblogger (#387476), orphaned today
Description: small weblog engine for the UNIX command line
Installations reported by Popcon: 59
png2html (#387477), orphaned today
Description: transforms a PNG image to a web page
Installations reported by Popcon: 69
vfu (#387478), orphaned today
Description: A versatile text-based filemanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 66
304 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 93 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:
[NEW] neverball (#387471), requested today
Description: 3D arcade games: neverball & neverputt
Reverse Depends: junior-games-gl neverball
Installations reported by Popcon: 488
[NEW] silky (#387472), requested today
Description: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) GTK+ based
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
[NEW] tsocks (#387473), requested today
Description: transparent network access through a SOCKS 4 or 5 proxy
Reverse Depends: tor
Installations reported by Popcon: 682
aboot (#315592), requested 448 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
apt-build (#365427), requested 138 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 459
apt-show-versions (#382026), requested 37 days ago
Description: lists available package versions with distribution
Installations reported by Popcon: 1831
athcool (#278442), requested 688 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 232
cvs (#354176), requested 203 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: bonsai crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage
cvs2cl cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta (16
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7887
docbook (#358522), requested 176 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: 3379
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 176 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: 9883
dpkg (#282283), requested 663 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 (82 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16273
grub (#248397), requested 857 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 12819
gtkpod (#319711), requested 417 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 423
loop-aes-modules (#385615), requested 14 days ago
Description: loop-AES modules
Reverse Depends: loop-aes-2.6-486 loop-aes-2.6-686
loop-aes-2.6-686-bigmem loop-aes-2.6-alpha-generic
loop-aes-2.6-alpha-legacy loop-aes-2.6-alpha-smp loop-aes-2.6-amd64
loop-aes-2.6-k7 loop-aes-2.6-parisc loop-aes-2.6-parisc-smp (16 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 28
loop-aes-source (#385437), requested 14 days ago
Description: loop-AES encryption Linux kernel modules (source)
Installations reported by Popcon: 135
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 14 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: loop-aes-2.6.17-2-486 loop-aes-2.6.17-2-486-di
loop-aes-2.6.17-2-686 loop-aes-2.6.17-2-686-bigmem
loop-aes-2.6.17-2-alpha-generic loop-aes-2.6.17-2-alpha-generic-di
loop-aes-2.6.17-2-alpha-legacy loop-aes-2.6.17-2-alpha-smp
loop-aes-2.6.17-2-amd64 loop-aes-2.6.17-2-amd64-di (30 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 381
mc (#380999), requested 44 days ago
Description: midnight commander - a powerful file manager
Reverse Depends: junior-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 4719
mwavem (#313369), requested 458 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
nas (#354174), requested 203 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 adonthell alsaplayer-nas apollon ark arson
asc audiooss avida-qt-viewer (241 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 10949
ntp (#373824), requested 91 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 9213
openssl (#332498), requested 343 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: afbackup afbackup-client anon-proxy
aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl apache-dbg apache-ssl
apache2-common apache2-mpm-perchild apache2-mpm-prefork (529 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 14479
parted (#262885), requested 773 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: 4224
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 737 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 340
sgml-data (#358521), requested 176 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: 10296
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 773 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: libstlport4.6-dev openoffice.org-soikko
Installations reported by Popcon: 7143
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 67 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 454
tex4ht (#386269), requested 8 days ago
Description: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext
Reverse Depends: tex4ht texlive-full
Installations reported by Popcon: 509
tikiwiki (#370592), requested 101 days ago
Description: groupware and content management system
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
tpctl (#332648), requested 342 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 177
unicorn (#345547), requested 256 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
webalizer-stonesteps (#374455), requested 87 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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