Work-needing packages report for Oct 6, 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: 321 (new: 24)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 106 (new: 10)
Total number of packages requested help for: 33 (new: 2)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
camstream (#390840), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Collection of tools for webcams and other video-devices
Installations reported by Popcon: 312
cassbeam (#391196), orphaned today
Description: A program for Cassegrain antenna modelling
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
clara (#391128), orphaned yesterday
Description: Free OCR program for Unix Systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 203
debian-builder (#390216), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Rebuild Debian packages from source code
Installations reported by Popcon: 173
driftnet (#390820), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Picks out and displays images from network traffic
Installations reported by Popcon: 193
dsniff (#390822), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Various tools to sniff network traffic for cleartext
insecurities
Installations reported by Popcon: 651
flawfinder (#390217), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: examines source code and looks for security weaknesses
Installations reported by Popcon: 128
komi (#390824), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: A single player arcade game with Komi the Space Frog!
Installations reported by Popcon: 67
late (#390826), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: A simple game of capturing balls
Reverse Depends: late
Installations reported by Popcon: 71
leksbot (#391197), orphaned today
Description: An explanatory dictionary of botanic and biological
terms
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
libapache2-mod-ifier (#390219), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Filter and reject incoming client requests
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
libcgi-session-expiresessions-perl (#390220), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Delete expired CGI::Session db-based and file-based
sessions
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
libnids (#390827), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: IP defragmentation TCP segment reassembly library
Reverse Depends: dsniff libnids-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 497
mxml (#391132), orphaned yesterday
Description: small XML parsing library
Reverse Depends: libmxml-dev zynaddsubfx
Installations reported by Popcon: 121
myphpmoney (#390839), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Finance manager written in PHP
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
phat (#391134), orphaned yesterday
Description: collection of GTK widgets geared towards audio apps
Reverse Depends: libphat0-dev specimen
Installations reported by Popcon: 65
pscan (#390221), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Format string security checker for C files
Installations reported by Popcon: 65
quiteinsane (#390837), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: A Qt based X11 frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now
Easy)
Installations reported by Popcon: 238
quiteinsanegimpplugin (#390836), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: A Qt based SANE plugin for GIMP 2.0
Installations reported by Popcon: 510
stars (#391198), orphaned today
Description: star map program that draws the night sky
Installations reported by Popcon: 231
wdg-html-validator (#390833), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: WDG HTML Validator
Reverse Depends: tidy-proxy
Installations reported by Popcon: 173
xautomation (#390832), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Control X from the command line, and find things on the
screen
Installations reported by Popcon: 95
xen-tools (#390904), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Tools to manage debian XEN virtual servers
Installations reported by Popcon: 255
xwelltris (#390830), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: 3D Tetris like popular game similar to Welltris
Installations reported by Popcon: 97
297 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:
checkmp3 (#390863), offered 2 days ago
Description: identify MP3s that do not follow the MP3 format
Installations reported by Popcon: 255
ffingerd (#390864), offered 2 days ago
Description: a secure finger daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
gruftistats (#390866), offered 2 days ago
Description: Generate a web page with statistics about an IRC
channel
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
jigl (#390865), offered 2 days ago
Description: Generates a static html photo gallery from one or more
directories of images
Installations reported by Popcon: 56
log-analysis (#390310), offered 5 days ago
Description: Analyse system's logs to find out problems
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
muh (#390867), offered 2 days ago
Description: Full-featured IRC bouncing tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
orpheus (#390868), offered 2 days ago
Description: Light-weight text mode menu- and window-driven audio
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 57
quintuple-agent (#390869), offered 2 days ago
Description: secure store for secrets (passphrases, etc.)
Installations reported by Popcon: 71
wmsysmon (#390871), offered 2 days ago
Description: WindowMaker dock-app for monitoring your system
Installations reported by Popcon: 165
xmms-fmradio (#390991), offered yesterday
Description: FM Radio input plugin for XMMS
Installations reported by Popcon: 383
96 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] ispell-et (#391105), requested yesterday
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 12
[NEW] rus-ispell (#391104), requested yesterday
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 204
aboot (#315592), requested 469 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client
Installations reported by Popcon: 56
apt-build (#365427), requested 159 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 462
apt-show-versions (#382026), requested 58 days ago
Description: lists available package versions with distribution
Installations reported by Popcon: 1886
athcool (#278442), requested 709 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 233
cvs (#354176), requested 224 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: 8145
docbook (#358522), requested 197 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: 3460
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 197 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: 10447
dpkg (#282283), requested 684 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: 17090
grub (#248397), requested 878 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 13506
gtkpod (#319711), requested 438 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 437
loop-aes-modules (#385615), requested 35 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-footbridge loop-aes-2.6-iop32x loop-aes-2.6-itanium (24
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 28
loop-aes-source (#385437), requested 35 days ago
Description: loop-AES encryption Linux kernel modules (source)
Installations reported by Popcon: 144
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 35 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 (73 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 387
mc (#380999), requested 65 days ago
Description: midnight commander - a powerful file manager
Reverse Depends: junior-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 4903
mwavem (#313369), requested 479 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
nas (#354174), requested 224 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 adonthell alsaplayer-nas amarok anymeal
apollon ark arson asc (244 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 11567
neverball (#387471), requested 21 days ago
Description: 3D arcade games: neverball & neverputt
Reverse Depends: junior-games-gl neverball
Installations reported by Popcon: 496
ntp (#373824), requested 112 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Reverse Depends: ntp-refclock ntp-simple radioclk
Installations reported by Popcon: 9328
openssl (#332498), requested 364 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-mpm-prefork apache2-mpm-worker apache2-prefork-dev (526 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15211
parted (#262885), requested 794 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: 4879
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 758 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 314
sgml-data (#358521), requested 197 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: 10855
silky (#387472), requested 21 days ago
Description: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) GTK+ based
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 34
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 794 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: libstlport4.6-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 7080
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 88 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 486
tex4ht (#386269), requested 29 days ago
Description: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext
Reverse Depends: tex4ht texlive-full
Installations reported by Popcon: 542
tikiwiki (#370592), requested 122 days ago
Description: groupware and content management system
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
tpctl (#332648), requested 363 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 186
tsocks (#387473), requested 21 days ago
Description: transparent network access through a SOCKS 4 or 5 proxy
Reverse Depends: tor
Installations reported by Popcon: 712
unicorn (#345547), requested 277 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
webalizer-stonesteps (#374455), requested 108 days ago
Description: Web server log file analysis program
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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