Work-needing packages report for May 5, 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: 296 (new: 5)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 81 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 19 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
galternatives (#365365), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: graphical setup tool for the alternatives system
Installations reported by Popcon: 293
gnobog (#366013), orphaned today
Description: GNOME Bookmarks Organizer
Installations reported by Popcon: 84
gnome-iconedit (#366012), orphaned today
Description: A small tool to create icons for the gnome-desktop
Installations reported by Popcon: 376
qtorrent (#365959), orphaned yesterday
Description: graphical BitTorrent client using Qt 3.x
Installations reported by Popcon: 330
rtlinux (#365717), orphaned 2 days ago (non-free)
Description: Real-Time-Linux, a POSIX-compatible hard realtime
operating system.
Installations reported by Popcon: 41
291 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:
id3ren (#365641), offered 3 days ago
Description: id3 tagger and renamer
Installations reported by Popcon: 386
libecgi (#365474), offered 4 days ago
Description: An ANSI C library for the creation of CGI applications
Reverse Depends: libecgi-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
linpqa (#365638), offered 3 days ago
Description: freeware compiler and decompiler for PalmVII Palm Query
Apps
Installations reported by Popcon: 2
78 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-build (#365427), requested 5 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 395
aboot (#315592), requested 315 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-server
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
athcool (#278442), requested 555 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 211
cvs (#354176), requested 70 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: bonsai cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
cvs2html cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta cvsps cvsreport (15 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6901
docbook (#358522), requested 43 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: 3377
docbook-xml (#358520), requested 43 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: 7503
dpkg (#282283), requested 530 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: alien alsa-source and apt-build apt-src backuppc
build-essential clamsmtp crosshurd cvs-autoreleasedeb (86 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12558
grub (#248397), requested 724 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages grubconf replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 9367
gtkpod (#319711), requested 284 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 316
mwavem (#313369), requested 325 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
nas (#354174), requested 70 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: abakus abuse acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas apollon ark
arson asc audiooss (241 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8263
openssl (#332498), requested 210 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: afbackup afbackup-client amap amaya anon-proxy
aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl apache-dbg apache-ssl
apache2-common (503 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 11085
parted (#262885), requested 640 days ago
Description: Searching co-maintainer for the parted package.
Reverse Depends: aboot-installer autopartkit elilo-installer gparted
libparted-swig-perl libparted1.6-dbg libparted1.6-dev
libparted1.6-i18n lvmcfg-utils mindi (9 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2396
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 604 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 73
sgml-data (#358521), requested 43 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: 7900
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 640 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-impress (5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 4828
thinkpad (#353736), requested 209 days ago
Description: Source code and configuration files for
thinkpad-modules packages
Reverse Depends: tpctl
Installations reported by Popcon: 166
tpctl (#332648), requested 209 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 135
unicorn (#345547), requested 123 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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