Work-needing packages report for Apr 4, 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: 419 (new: 12)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 101 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 42 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
acpitool (#473764), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: a small, convenient command-line ACPI client
Installations reported by Popcon: 1278
classpath-tools (#473283), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Free 'javah', 'javap', 'serialver' equivalents
Reverse Depends: free-java-sdk
Installations reported by Popcon: 1246
kiosktool (#473565), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: tool to configure the KDE kiosk framework
Installations reported by Popcon: 417
libdc0 (#473207), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Runtime libraries for Valknut
Reverse Depends: libdc0-dev valknut
Installations reported by Popcon: 302
mserv (#473895), orphaned yesterday
Description: local centralised multiuser music server
Reverse Depends: mserv-cgi mserv-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 46
netdiscover (#473765), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: active/passive address scanner using arp requests
Installations reported by Popcon: 399
pimppa (#473287), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: powerful tool to loot binaries from newsgroups smartly
Installations reported by Popcon: 81
sablevm (#473288), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Free implementation of Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
second edition
Reverse Depends: free-java-sdk libcommons-net-java libgnujmi-java
libjdom-java librelaxng-datatype-java libsablevm1-dev libxp-java
sablecc sablevm
Installations reported by Popcon: 1267
upsd (#473894), orphaned yesterday
Description: UPS Monitor Program via serial interface
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
valknut (#473205), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: graphical client for Direct Connect
Installations reported by Popcon: 268
xcin2.3 (#473463), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Chinese input server (Big5) for XA+CV in X11
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
xnc (#473291), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: X Northern Captain nc/mc-like filemanager for X
Installations reported by Popcon: 157
407 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:
festvox-suopuhe-lj (#474018), offered yesterday
Description: Finnish female speaker for Festival
Reverse Depends: festvox-suopuhe-lj festvox-suopuhe-mv
Installations reported by Popcon: 111
festvox-suopuhe-mv (#474019), offered yesterday
Description: Finnish male speaker for festival
Installations reported by Popcon: 79
wordpress (#473451), offered 4 days ago
Description: weblog manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 506
98 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:
apache2 (#470795), requested 21 days ago
Description: Co-maintainer wanted
Reverse Depends: adzapper ampache apache2 apache2-dbg
apache2-mpm-event apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-perchild
apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-mpm-worker apache2-prefork-dev (146 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 37775
apt-build (#365427), requested 705 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1009
ara (#450876), requested 144 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 116
athcool (#278442), requested 1255 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 262
bash-completion (#472468), requested 10 days ago
Description: programmable completion for the bash shell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1728
cfs (#458061), requested 97 days ago
Description: Cryptographic Filesystem
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
cvs (#354176), requested 770 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta cvsps (13 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 23211
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 159 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: 6314
dpkg (#282283), requested 1230 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 (100 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 78258
drscheme (#402589), requested 479 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 397
elvis (#432298), requested 269 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: 304
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 117 days ago (non-free)
Description: non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver
Reverse Depends: fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-control fglrx-driver fglrx-glx
fglrx-glx-ia32
Installations reported by Popcon: 2347
gentoo (#422498), requested 333 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 297
grub (#248397), requested 1424 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-doc replicator startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 72048
imagemagick (#452314), requested 134 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale ascd asymptote
bins cimg-dev curator dblatex (79 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 23817
ispell-et (#391105), requested 547 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 56
jove (#470185), requested 25 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 162
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 581 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 768
mantis (#471094), requested 19 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 58
milter-greylist (#470188), requested 25 days ago
Description: GreyList milter for sendmail
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
mol (#436450), requested 240 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: 69
mwavem (#313369), requested 1025 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 14
nas (#354174), requested 770 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amarok amor apollon ark
atlantik attal audiooss (300 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 54859
nn (#470187), requested 25 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 122
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 353 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 (79 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 48888
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 541 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph6
libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 openscenegraph osgcal
Installations reported by Popcon: 183
openssl (#332498), requested 910 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 3270-common afbackup afbackup-client aircrack-ng
alpine anon-proxy aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-threaded-dev (567 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 77011
poppler (#423334), requested 328 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 (21 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 43715
request-tracker3.6 (#469353), requested 30 days ago
Description: Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system
Reverse Depends: request-tracker3.6 rt3.6-rtfm
Installations reported by Popcon: 196
rt2400 (#411791), requested 408 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 171
rt2570 (#411790), requested 408 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 271
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 547 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1473
sgml-data (#358521), requested 743 days ago
Description: common SGML and XML data
Reverse Depends: debiandoc-sgml debiandoc2dbxml docbook
docbook-simple docbook-xml epiphany-extensions linuxdoc-tools psgml
stardict-common w3c-dtd-xhtml (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 51261
silky (#387472), requested 567 days ago
Description: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) GTK+ based
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 33
smlnj (#428273), requested 298 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: 96
spamassassin (#469124), requested 31 days ago
Description: Perl-based spam filter using text analysis
Reverse Depends: claws-mail-spamassassin dtc-common fuzzyocr
mailscanner sa-exim sa-learn-cyrus spamass-milter spampd
sylpheed-claws-spamassassin
Installations reported by Popcon: 13207
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1340 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: 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
openoffice.org-evolution (14 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 46298
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 634 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1225
torrus (#433223), requested 263 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 22
unicorn (#345547), requested 823 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 73
update-inetd (#472470), requested 10 days ago
Description: inetd.conf updater
Reverse Depends: amanda-common bootp cupsys-bsd cvs ebhttpd ebnetd
ebnetd-common efingerd fam fingerd (27 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 76121
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 60 days ago
Description: help for wxwidgets2.8 is appreciated
Installations reported by Popcon: 7370
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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