Work-needing packages report for Jan 11, 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: 324 (new: 16)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 90 (new: 6)
Total number of packages requested help for: 34 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
flpsed (#460045), orphaned today
Description: a WYSIWYG pseudo PostScript editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 411
ggi-doc (#460143), orphaned today
Description: General Graphics Interface project documentation
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
kernel-patch-grsecurity2 (#459954), orphaned yesterday
Description: grsecurity kernel patch - new major upstream version
Installations reported by Popcon: 101
libggi (#460145), orphaned today
Description: General Graphics Interface development package
Reverse Depends: freesci heroes-ggi libggi-samples libggi-target-aa
libggi-target-emu libggi-target-fbdev libggi-target-lcd823
libggi-target-monotext libggi-target-svgalib libggi-target-terminfo
(16 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12669
libggigcp (#460144), orphaned today
Description: GGI Color and Palette Manager extension development
package
Reverse Depends: libggigcp1-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 43
libggimisc (#460146), orphaned today
Description: General Graphics Interface Misc development package
Reverse Depends: libggimisc2-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 684
libggiwmh (#460147), orphaned today
Description: GGI Window Manager Hints extension X display target
Reverse Depends: libggiwmh0-dev libggiwmh0-target-x
Installations reported by Popcon: 48
libgii (#460148), orphaned today
Description: General Input Interface X input target
Reverse Depends: freesci heroes-ggi libggi-samples libggi-target-aa
libggi-target-emu libggi-target-fbdev libggi-target-lcd823
libggi-target-monotext libggi-target-svgalib libggi-target-terminfo
(12 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12497
libgiigic (#460149), orphaned today
Description: development package for libgiigic
Reverse Depends: libgiigic1-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
libpam-foreground (#459899), orphaned yesterday
Description: create lockfiles describing which users own which
console
Installations reported by Popcon: 226
libx86 (#459900), orphaned yesterday
Description: x86 real-mode library - development files
Reverse Depends: libsvga1 libusplash0 libx86-dev svgalib-bin uswsusp
vbetool
Installations reported by Popcon: 10640
netapplet (#459901), orphaned yesterday
Description: User-friendly network interface control applet
Installations reported by Popcon: 481
svgalib4libggi (#460150), orphaned today
Description: SVGAlib wrapper library for LibGGI
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts (#459903), orphaned yesterday
Description: BPG Georgian fonts for the graphical installer
Installations reported by Popcon: 495
vbetool (#460059), orphaned today
Description: run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hardware state
Reverse Depends: 915resolution acpi-support
Installations reported by Popcon: 29655
waproamd (#460028), orphaned today
Description: WLAN roaming daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 208
308 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:
defoma (#460036), offered today
Description: Debian Font Manager -- automatic font configuration
framework
Reverse Depends: cm-super-x11 cmap-adobe-cns1 cmap-adobe-gb1
cmap-adobe-japan1 cmap-adobe-japan2 cmap-adobe-korea1 dfontmgr
fontconfig ghostscript gnucash (119 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 61113
dmraid (#459593), offered 3 days ago
Description: Device-Mapper Software RAID support tool
Reverse Depends: partman-dmraid
Installations reported by Popcon: 334
grace (#459483), offered 4 days ago
Description: An XY plotting tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 1024
grace6 (#459484), offered 4 days ago
Description: An XY plotting tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 322
openntpd (#459495), offered 4 days ago
Description: OpenBSD NTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 1257
rote (#459337), offered 5 days ago
Description: a simple C library for VT102 terminal emulation -
development
Reverse Depends: librote-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
84 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 931 days ago
Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: aboot aboot-cross dfsbuild ltsp-client-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 127
apt-build (#365427), requested 621 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 938
ara (#450876), requested 60 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
athcool (#278442), requested 1171 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 264
cdrskin (#450873), requested 60 days ago
Description: command line CD-R/CD-RW writing tool
Reverse Depends: k3b
Installations reported by Popcon: 434
cfs (#458061), requested 13 days ago
Description: Cryptographic Filesystem
Installations reported by Popcon: 115
cvs (#354176), requested 686 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: 21589
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 75 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: 5895
dpkg (#282283), requested 1146 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 (113 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 69778
elvis (#432298), requested 185 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: 292
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 33 days ago (non-free)
Description: non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver
Reverse Depends: fglrx-amdcccle
Installations reported by Popcon: 2105
gentoo (#422498), requested 249 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 269
grub (#248397), requested 1340 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild replicator startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 64339
imagemagick (#452314), requested 50 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale alml ascd
asymptote autotrace bins cimg-dev (83 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 27663
ispell-et (#391105), requested 463 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 497 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: 779
mol (#436450), requested 156 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 941 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 14
nas (#354174), requested 686 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amarok apollon ark arson
asc audiooss avida-qt-viewer (233 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 49388
ntp (#373824), requested 574 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol: network utilities
Reverse Depends: radioclk
Installations reported by Popcon: 23577
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 269 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: 44105
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 457 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph6
libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 openscenegraph osgcal
Installations reported by Popcon: 164
openssl (#332498), requested 826 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: afbackup afbackup-client aircrack-ng alpine
alpine-pico anon-proxy aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-threaded-dev (557 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 68306
poppler (#423334), requested 244 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 (18 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 38562
rt2400 (#411791), requested 324 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 130
rt2570 (#411790), requested 324 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 249
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 463 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1189
sgml-data (#358521), requested 659 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: 45812
silky (#387472), requested 483 days ago
Description: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) GTK+ based
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 34
smlnj (#428273), requested 214 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: 85
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1256 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: 43186
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 550 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1049
torrus (#433223), requested 179 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 22
unicorn (#345547), requested 739 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 47
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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