Work-needing packages report for Jan 25, 2008
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: 333 (new: 15)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 93 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 34 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following packages have been orphaned:
blinkd (#461433), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Blinks keyboard LEDs e.g. for answering machine or fax
Installations reported by Popcon: 30
brutalchess (#461885), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: 3d chess with reflection of the chessmen
Installations reported by Popcon: 717
dict-foldoc (#461565), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: FOLDOC Dictionary Database
Reverse Depends: wordtrans-dict
Installations reported by Popcon: 703
gnustep-dl2 (#461896), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Objective-C Classes needed for Database Access
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
gnustep-tutorial (#461895), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: GNUstep tutorial as pdf/html files
Installations reported by Popcon: 74
gpgp (#462479), orphaned today
Description: GNOME front-end to GnuPG - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 687
latex-hangul-ucs (#462066), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: LaTeX package to support Hangul
Reverse Depends: latex-hangul-ucs-trivcj
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
lhapdf (#461886), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Les Houches Accord Parton Density Function
Reverse Depends: liblhapdf-data liblhapdf0
Installations reported by Popcon: 133
libdc1394 (#461446), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: high level programming interface for IEEE1394 digital
camera
Reverse Depends: blender coriander gnusound isdexport libavcodec-dev
libavformat1d libdc1394-13-dev libdc1394-examples libhighgui1
libinstrudeo0 (16 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 23902
ms-sys (#461900), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Write a Microsoft compatible boot record
Reverse Depends: mindi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1429
pathogen (#461897), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Puzzle game about matching 3D model structures
Installations reported by Popcon: 292
pixie (#461884), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: RenderMan like photorealistic renderer
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
randim (#461901), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Random Image Generation using Iterated Function
Installations reported by Popcon: 49
smake (#462152), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Schily make.
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
vera (#461567), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: List of computer acronyms
Reverse Depends: wordtrans-dict
Installations reported by Popcon: 607
318 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 93 packages
are awaiting adoption. See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage
for a complete list.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For the following packages help is requested:
aboot (#315592), requested 945 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 126
apt-build (#365427), requested 635 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 968
ara (#450876), requested 74 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 116
athcool (#278442), requested 1185 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 264
cdrskin (#450873), requested 74 days ago
Description: command line CD-R/CD-RW writing tool
Reverse Depends: k3b
Installations reported by Popcon: 450
cfs (#458061), requested 27 days ago
Description: Cryptographic Filesystem
Installations reported by Popcon: 115
cvs (#354176), requested 700 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: bonsai crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage
cvs2cl cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta (14
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 22367
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 89 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: debian-goodies dlocate feta haskell-devscripts
hg-buildpackage mlmmj sbuild simple-cdd
Installations reported by Popcon: 5966
dpkg (#282283), requested 1160 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 (111 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 73277
elvis (#432298), requested 199 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: 295
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 47 days ago (non-free)
Description: non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver
Reverse Depends: fglrx-amdcccle
Installations reported by Popcon: 2220
gentoo (#422498), requested 263 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 284
grub (#248397), requested 1354 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild replicator startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 67683
imagemagick (#452314), requested 64 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale alml ascd
asymptote autotrace bins cimg-dev (82 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 30326
ispell-et (#391105), requested 477 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 511 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-486
loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-686 loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-686-bigmem
loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-alpha-generic
loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-alpha-legacy
loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-alpha-smp loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-amd64
loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-footbridge
loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-iop32x loop-aes-modules-2.6.23-1-itanium
(12 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 790
mol (#436450), requested 170 days ago
Description: The Mac-on-Linux emulator
Reverse Depends: mol-drivers-linux mol-drivers-macos
mol-drivers-macosx mol-modules-source
Installations reported by Popcon: 77
mwavem (#313369), requested 955 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 12
nas (#354174), requested 700 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amarok apollon ark arson
audiooss avida-qt-viewer bibletime (231 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 52084
ntp (#373824), requested 588 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Reverse Depends: radioclk
Installations reported by Popcon: 24183
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 283 days ago
Description: OpenOffice.org Office suite
Reverse Depends: broffice.org gnumed-client libuno-cil
mozilla-openoffice.org openoffice.org openoffice.org-base
openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core
openoffice.org-ctl-he (74 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 46506
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 471 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph6
libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 openscenegraph osgcal
Installations reported by Popcon: 176
openssl (#332498), requested 840 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: afbackup afbackup-client aircrack-ng alpine
anon-proxy aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-threaded-dev apache2-utils (557 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 71833
poppler (#423334), requested 258 days ago
Description: PDF rendering library and utilities
Reverse Depends: abiword-plugins claws-mail-pdf-viewer cupsys
epdfview evince evince-gtk gambas2-gb-pdf gimp
kdegraphics-kfile-plugins keyjnote (19 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 40968
rt2400 (#411791), requested 338 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 135
rt2570 (#411790), requested 338 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 250
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 477 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1270
sgml-data (#358521), requested 673 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: 48301
silky (#387472), requested 497 days ago
Description: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) GTK+ based
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
smlnj (#428273), requested 228 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 (5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 94
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1270 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: kawari8 libstlport4.6-dev libuno-cil
mozilla-openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-base-core
openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-dev
openoffice.org-draw (11 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45481
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 564 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1112
torrus (#433223), requested 193 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
unicorn (#345547), requested 753 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
Reply to: