Work-needing packages report for Apr 20, 2007
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: 386 (new: 17)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 83 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 38 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
axel (#419679), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: A light download accelerator - Console version
Reverse Depends: axel-kapt
Installations reported by Popcon: 249
dome (#419082), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: calculates and draws geodesic domes
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
elisp-manual (#419326), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
Installations reported by Popcon: 319
emacs-lisp-intro (#419327), orphaned 5 days ago (non-free)
Description: An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp
Installations reported by Popcon: 373
eukleides (#419083), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: a Euclidean geometry drawing language
Reverse Depends: xeukleides
Installations reported by Popcon: 311
le (#419076), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Text Editor with block and binary operations
Installations reported by Popcon: 210
libjconv (#419090), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: charset conversion library - binaries
Reverse Depends: libjconv-dev wdg-html-validator
Installations reported by Popcon: 224
ncurses-hexedit (#419075), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Edit files/disks in hex, ASCII and EBCDIC
Installations reported by Popcon: 341
qmailmrtg7 (#419074), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: qmail mrtg graph generator
Installations reported by Popcon: 27
rtfm (#419078), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: RT FAQ Manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
ude (#419088), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: The ultimate window manager for UDE
Reverse Depends: uwm
Installations reported by Popcon: 132
varkon (#419086), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: A CAD-system with parametric modelling
Installations reported by Popcon: 104
vche (#419077), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Virtual Console Hex Editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 45
wmacpi (#420091), orphaned today
Description: An ACPI battery monitor for WindowMaker
Installations reported by Popcon: 167
xeukleides (#419084), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: A system for drawing and viewing Euclidean geometry
figures
Installations reported by Popcon: 278
xmp (#419985), orphaned today
Description: A module player supporting AWE32, GUS, and
software-mixing
Reverse Depends: libxmp2 xmp xmp-alsa xmp-common xmp-esd xmp-x11
xmp-xmms
Installations reported by Popcon: 396
xppaut (#419087), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Phase Plane Plus Auto: Solves many kinds of equations
Installations reported by Popcon: 199
369 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:
cdtool (#419334), offered 5 days ago
Description: text-based audio CD player and CD-ROM control commands
Reverse Depends: junior-sound
Installations reported by Popcon: 1030
screentest (#419214), offered 5 days ago
Description: Utility to test the quality of CRT screens
Installations reported by Popcon: 153
81 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] openoffice.org (#419523), requested 3 days ago
Description: OpenOffice.org Office suite
Reverse Depends: broffice.org libuno-cil mozilla-openoffice.org
oooqs-kde ooqstart-gnome openoffice.org openoffice.org-base
openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core (69
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 28427
aboot (#315592), requested 665 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client
Installations reported by Popcon: 67
apt-build (#365427), requested 355 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 697
apt-cacher (#403584), requested 122 days ago
Description: caching proxy system for Debian package and source
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 289
apt-show-versions (#382026), requested 254 days ago
Description: lists available package versions with distribution
Installations reported by Popcon: 2419
athcool (#278442), requested 905 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 252
audacity (#397166), requested 165 days ago
Description: looking for co-maintainer
Installations reported by Popcon: 3141
cdw (#398252), requested 158 days ago
Description: Tool for burning CD's - console version
Reverse Depends: cdw gcdw
Installations reported by Popcon: 244
cvs (#354176), requested 420 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: bonsai crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage
cvs2cl cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta (17
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 14409
dpkg (#282283), requested 880 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: alien alsa-source apt-build apt-cross apt-src
backuppc build-essential clamsmtp crosshurd cvs-autoreleasedeb (84
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41232
gpsdrive (#406522), requested 98 days ago
Description: Car navigation system
Installations reported by Popcon: 347
grub (#248397), requested 1074 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-splashimages replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 36676
gtkpod (#319711), requested 634 days ago
Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
Installations reported by Popcon: 591
ispell-et (#391105), requested 197 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
lighttpd (#401575), requested 136 days ago
Description: A fast webserver with minimal memory footprint
Reverse Depends: lighttpd-mod-cml lighttpd-mod-magnet
lighttpd-mod-mysql-vhost lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl
lighttpd-mod-webdav
Installations reported by Popcon: 537
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 231 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-4-486
loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-4-686 loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-4-686-bigmem
loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-4-alpha-generic
loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-4-alpha-legacy
loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-4-alpha-smp loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-4-amd64
loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-4-footbridge
loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-4-iop32x loop-aes-modules-2.6.18-4-itanium
(40 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 560
mc (#380999), requested 261 days ago
Description: midnight commander - a powerful file manager
Reverse Depends: junior-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 9039
mwavem (#313369), requested 675 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
nas (#354174), requested 420 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: 31625
neverball (#387471), requested 217 days ago
Description: 3D arcade games: neverball & neverputt
Reverse Depends: junior-games-gl neverball
Installations reported by Popcon: 871
ntp (#373824), requested 308 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Reverse Depends: ntp-refclock ntp-simple radioclk
Installations reported by Popcon: 13615
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 191 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenalpp-cvs-dev libopenalpp-cvs1
libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph4 libopenthreads-dev
libosgal-cvs1 libproducer-dev libproducer4 openscenegraph osgcal
Installations reported by Popcon: 181
openssl (#332498), requested 560 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: afbackup afbackup-client alpine alpine-pico
anon-proxy aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl apache-dbg
apache-ssl apache2-prefork-dev (556 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 38411
pbbuttonsd (#270558), requested 954 days ago
Description: PBButtons daemon to handle special hotkeys of Apple
computers
Reverse Depends: gtkpbbuttons gtkpbbuttons-gnome pbbuttonsd-dev
powerprefs
Installations reported by Popcon: 244
rt2400 (#411791), requested 58 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 73
rt2500 (#411788), requested 58 days ago
Description: RT2500 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 391
rt2570 (#411790), requested 58 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 142
rt2x00 (#411789), requested 58 days ago
Description: RT2x00 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 181
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 197 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 461
sgml-data (#358521), requested 393 days ago
Description: common SGML and XML data
Reverse Depends: alml debiandoc-sgml debiandoc2dbxml docbook
docbook-simple docbook-xml epiphany-extensions linuxdoc-tools psgml
sgmltexi (5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 28877
silky (#387472), requested 217 days ago
Description: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) GTK+ based
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 46
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 990 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: kawari8 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 (6 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 27287
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 284 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 721
tex4ht (#386269), requested 225 days ago
Description: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext
Reverse Depends: tex4ht texlive-full
Installations reported by Popcon: 918
tikiwiki (#370592), requested 318 days ago
Description: groupware and content management system
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
tpctl (#332648), requested 559 days ago
Description: ThinkPad hardware configuration tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 167
unicorn (#345547), requested 473 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
webalizer-stonesteps (#374455), requested 304 days ago
Description: Web server log file analysis program
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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