Work-needing packages report for Aug 3, 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: 385 (new: 3)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 79 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requested help for: 38 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
vpim (#435371), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: vCard and iCalendar library for Ruby
Installations reported by Popcon: 28
wget-el (#435372), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: an interface for wget on Emacsen
Installations reported by Popcon: 106
x2x (#435702), orphaned today
Description: Link two X displays together, simulating a multiheaded
display
Installations reported by Popcon: 410
382 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:
pkspxy (#435116), offered 4 days ago
Description: PGP Public Key Server Proxy Daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
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:
aboot (#315592), requested 770 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 101
apt-build (#365427), requested 460 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 805
apt-cacher (#403584), requested 227 days ago
Description: caching proxy system for Debian package and source
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 359
apt-show-versions (#382026), requested 359 days ago
Description: lists available package versions with distribution
Installations reported by Popcon: 2778
athcool (#278442), requested 1010 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 279
cvs (#354176), requested 525 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: 18664
dpkg (#282283), requested 985 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 bzr-builddeb clamsmtp crosshurd (87 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 56696
dsniff (#430162), requested 41 days ago
Description: Various tools to sniff network traffic for cleartext
insecurities
Installations reported by Popcon: 939
elvis (#432298), requested 24 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Reverse Depends: elvis elvis-console elvis-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 250
gentoo (#422498), requested 88 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 263
grub (#248397), requested 1179 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild replicator
Installations reported by Popcon: 51629
ispell-et (#391105), requested 302 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
kradio (#429873), requested 43 days ago
Description: Comfortable Radio Application for KDE
Installations reported by Popcon: 244
lighttpd (#401575), requested 241 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: 755
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 336 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: loop-aes-modules-2.6.21-2-486
loop-aes-modules-2.6.21-2-4kc-malta loop-aes-modules-2.6.21-2-686
loop-aes-modules-2.6.21-2-686-bigmem
loop-aes-modules-2.6.21-2-alpha-generic
loop-aes-modules-2.6.21-2-alpha-legacy
loop-aes-modules-2.6.21-2-alpha-smp loop-aes-modules-2.6.21-2-amd64
loop-aes-modules-2.6.21-2-footbridge
loop-aes-modules-2.6.21-2-iop32x (32 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 672
mc (#380999), requested 366 days ago
Description: midnight commander - a powerful file manager
Reverse Depends: junior-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 13179
mwavem (#313369), requested 780 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 19
nas (#354174), requested 525 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 adonthell alsaplayer-nas amarok anymeal
apollon ark arson asc (234 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41701
neverball (#387471), requested 322 days ago
Description: 3D arcade games: neverball & neverputt
Reverse Depends: junior-games-gl neverball
Installations reported by Popcon: 1161
ntp (#373824), requested 413 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Reverse Depends: radioclk
Installations reported by Popcon: 18288
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 108 days ago
Description: OpenOffice.org Office suite
Reverse Depends: broffice.org libuno-cil mozilla-openoffice.org
openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc
openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-ctl-he
openoffice.org-dev (64 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 37327
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 296 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: 245
openssl (#332498), requested 665 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
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-threaded-dev apache2-utils (541 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 54800
poppler (#423334), requested 83 days ago
Description: PDF rendering library and utilities
Reverse Depends: abiword-plugins claws-mail-pdf-viewer cupsys evince
gambas2-gb-pdf kdegraphics-kfile-plugins libpoppler-dev
libpoppler-glib-dev libpoppler-glib1 libpoppler-qt-dev (13 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 31330
rt2400 (#411791), requested 163 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 97
rt2500 (#411788), requested 163 days ago
Description: RT2500 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 490
rt2570 (#411790), requested 163 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 185
rt2x00 (#411789), requested 163 days ago
Description: RT2x00 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 228
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 302 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 773
sgml-data (#358521), requested 498 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: 38470
silky (#387472), requested 322 days ago
Description: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) GTK+ based
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
smlnj (#428273), requested 53 days ago
Description: Standard ML of New Jersey interactive compiler
Reverse Depends: libckit-smlnj libcml-smlnj libcmlutil-smlnj
libexene-smlnj libmlnlffi-smlnj libmlrisctools-smlnj
libpgraphutil-smlnj libsmlnj-smlnj ml-burg ml-lex (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 77
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1095 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: kawari8 libstlport4.6-dev libuno-cil
mozilla-openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc
openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-dev openoffice.org-draw
openoffice.org-evolution (8 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 36369
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 389 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 867
tex4ht (#386269), requested 330 days ago
Description: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext
Reverse Depends: tex4ht texlive-full
Installations reported by Popcon: 1122
torrus (#433223), requested 18 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
unicorn (#345547), requested 578 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
webalizer-stonesteps (#374455), requested 409 days ago
Description: Web server log file analysis program
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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