Work-needing packages report for Dec 1, 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: 331 (new: 11)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 87 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 35 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
fbdesk (#400359), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: desktop icons for fluxbox window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 356
id3tool (#400360), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: A command line editor for id3 tags.
Installations reported by Popcon: 336
klineakconfig (#401134), orphaned today
Installations reported by Popcon: 124
ksimus-floatingpoint (#401135), orphaned today
Installations reported by Popcon: 371
libapache-miniwiki-perl (#400362), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Miniature Wiki for Apache
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
libheap-perl (#400366), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Perl extensions for keeping data partially sorted
Reverse Depends: libcache-perl libgraph-perl
Installations reported by Popcon: 151
libmath-round-perl (#400367), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Perl extension for rounding numbers
Reverse Depends: horae libwww-myspace-perl slimscrobbler
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
libnet-ident-perl (#400364), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: lookup the username on the remote end of a TCP/IP
connection
Installations reported by Popcon: 599
librcs-perl (#400365), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Front end to revision control utilities for perl
Reverse Depends: libapache-miniwiki-perl
Installations reported by Popcon: 42
libtext-shellwords-perl (#400368), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Tokenises lines of text
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
python-uncertainities (#401136), orphaned today
Installations reported by Popcon: 182
320 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:
wmcpu (#400943), offered yesterday
Description: Window Maker docking app similar to xosview
Installations reported by Popcon: 212
wmdate (#400944), offered yesterday
Description: Calendar for window manager docking bars
Installations reported by Popcon: 231
wmscope (#400945), offered yesterday
Description: Graphical representation of sound waves in a dockapp
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
84 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:
aboot (#315592), requested 525 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
apt-build (#365427), requested 215 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 489
apt-show-versions (#382026), requested 114 days ago
Description: lists available package versions with distribution
Installations reported by Popcon: 1972
athcool (#278442), requested 765 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 229
audacity (#397166), requested 25 days ago
Description: looking for co-maintainer
Installations reported by Popcon: 2064
cdw (#398252), requested 18 days ago
Description: Tool for burning CD's - console version
Reverse Depends: cdw gcdw
Installations reported by Popcon: 256
cvs (#354176), requested 280 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: 9259
docbook (#358522), requested 253 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 253 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: 12392
dpkg (#282283), requested 740 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: 20077
grub (#248397), requested 934 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 16378
gtkpod (#319711), requested 494 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 472
ispell-et (#391105), requested 57 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
loop-aes-modules (#385615), requested 91 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: 49
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 91 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 (94 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 442
mc (#380999), requested 121 days ago
Description: midnight commander - a powerful file manager
Reverse Depends: junior-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 5652
mwavem (#313369), requested 535 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
nas (#354174), requested 280 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 adonthell adplay alsaplayer-nas amarok
anymeal apollon ark arson (241 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13717
neverball (#387471), requested 77 days ago
Description: 3D arcade games: neverball & neverputt
Reverse Depends: junior-games-gl neverball
Installations reported by Popcon: 533
ntp (#373824), requested 168 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Reverse Depends: ntp-refclock ntp-simple radioclk
Installations reported by Popcon: 10251
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 51 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: 62
openssl (#332498), requested 420 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 (537 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 17953
parted (#262885), requested 850 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: 7067
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 814 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 260
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 57 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 200
sgml-data (#358521), requested 253 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: 12817
silky (#387472), requested 77 days ago
Description: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) GTK+ based
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 850 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: 9833
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 144 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 520
tex4ht (#386269), requested 85 days ago
Description: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext
Reverse Depends: tex4ht texlive-full
Installations reported by Popcon: 635
tikiwiki (#370592), requested 178 days ago
Description: groupware and content management system
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
tpctl (#332648), requested 419 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 185
tsocks (#387473), requested 77 days ago
Description: transparent network access through a SOCKS 4 or 5 proxy
Reverse Depends: tor
Installations reported by Popcon: 734
unicorn (#345547), requested 333 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
webalizer-stonesteps (#374455), requested 164 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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