Work-needing packages report for Nov 17, 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: 326 (new: 11)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 87 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 36 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following packages have been orphaned:
cegui-mk2 (#398108), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Crazy Eddie's GUI (documentation)
Reverse Depends: libcegui-mk2-0c2a-dbg libcegui-mk2-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 27
ethiop (#398890), orphaned today
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
gnustep-netclasses (#398103), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Objective-C framework for socket programming with
GNUstep
Reverse Depends: talksoup.app
Installations reported by Popcon: 195
grdesktop (#398120), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: GNOME frontend for the rdesktop client
Installations reported by Popcon: 4569
libphp-adodb (#398121), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: The 'adodb' database abstraction layer for php
Reverse Depends: acidbase cacti flyspray mantis mediamate mydms
phpgacl tikiwiki torrentflux
Installations reported by Popcon: 920
nana (#398104), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: GNU Nana -- improved support for assertions and logging
Installations reported by Popcon: 42
noweb (#398109), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: A WEB-like literate-programming tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 729
steptalk (#398105), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: The GNUstep Scripting Framework
Installations reported by Popcon: 148
superd (#398115), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Single-port inetd with pre-forking, suited for
high-speed servers
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
wmmatrix (#398122), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: View The Matrix in a Window Maker dock application
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
xmms-kjofol (#398123), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: XMMS remote that uses K-Jofol's skins
Reverse Depends: xmms-kjofol-skins
Installations reported by Popcon: 260
315 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 87 packages
are awaiting adoption. See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage
for a complete list.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For the following packages help is requested:
[NEW] cdw (#398252), requested 4 days ago
Description: Tool for burning CD's - console version
Reverse Depends: cdw cdw-common gcdw
Installations reported by Popcon: 257
aboot (#315592), requested 511 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
apt-build (#365427), requested 201 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 482
apt-show-versions (#382026), requested 100 days ago
Description: lists available package versions with distribution
Installations reported by Popcon: 1953
athcool (#278442), requested 751 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 232
audacity (#397166), requested 11 days ago
Description: looking for co-maintainer
Installations reported by Popcon: 2017
cvs (#354176), requested 266 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: 8951
docbook (#358522), requested 239 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: 3513
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 239 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: 11495
dpkg (#282283), requested 726 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: 18978
grub (#248397), requested 920 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 15266
gtkpod (#319711), requested 480 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 456
ispell-et (#391105), requested 43 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
loop-aes-modules (#385615), requested 77 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: 46
loop-aes-source (#385437), requested 77 days ago
Description: loop-AES encryption Linux kernel modules (source)
Installations reported by Popcon: 154
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 77 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 (102 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 431
mc (#380999), requested 107 days ago
Description: midnight commander - a powerful file manager
Reverse Depends: junior-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 5452
mwavem (#313369), requested 521 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
nas (#354174), requested 266 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 adonthell adplay alsaplayer-nas amarok
anymeal apollon ark arson (251 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12823
neverball (#387471), requested 63 days ago
Description: 3D arcade games: neverball & neverputt
Reverse Depends: junior-games-gl neverball
Installations reported by Popcon: 530
ntp (#373824), requested 154 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Reverse Depends: ntp-refclock ntp-simple radioclk
Installations reported by Popcon: 9994
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 37 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenalpp-cvs-dev libopenalpp-cvs1
libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph4 libopenthreads-dev
libosgal-cvs1 libproducer-dev libproducer4 openscenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
openssl (#332498), requested 406 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-prefork-dev apache2-threaded-dev apache2-utils (530 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16900
parted (#262885), requested 836 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: 6123
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 800 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 259
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 43 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 212
sgml-data (#358521), requested 239 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: 11920
silky (#387472), requested 63 days ago
Description: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) GTK+ based
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 836 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: 8628
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 130 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 506
tex4ht (#386269), requested 71 days ago
Description: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext
Reverse Depends: tex4ht texlive-full
Installations reported by Popcon: 609
tikiwiki (#370592), requested 164 days ago
Description: groupware and content management system
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
tpctl (#332648), requested 405 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 179
tsocks (#387473), requested 63 days ago
Description: transparent network access through a SOCKS 4 or 5 proxy
Reverse Depends: tor
Installations reported by Popcon: 735
unicorn (#345547), requested 319 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
webalizer-stonesteps (#374455), requested 150 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.
Reply to: