Re: Bug#349693: ITP: gst-fluendo-mp3 -- MP3 decoder plugin for GStreamer

2006-01-26 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:03:14PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 25 janvier 2006 à 11:53 +0100, Florian Weimer a écrit :
> > Just to clarify since you put that emphasis on decoding:
> > 
> > There is no difference between decoders and encoders.  Both require
> > patent licenses.
> 
> But as I understand it, only the encoding patents are enforceable. If we
> start to remove software from main just because some random companies
> claim they have patents covering it, we can stop to distribute Debian
> entirely.

I am of the kind that thinks that Debian ought to be aware of copyright
breaches, but cannot allow itself to deal with patents.

We should not distribut the Gimp because of patents (see
http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/samples/ep689133/index.en.html)

This patent, granted by the EPO in Aug 2001, has been used by Adobe to
sue Macromedia Inc in the US. The EP version took 6 years to examine, and
it was granted in full breadth, without any modification. It covers the
idea of adding a third dimension to a menu system by arranging several
sets of options behind each other, marked with tabs. This is
particularly found to be useful in image processing software of Adobe
and Macromedia, but also in The GIMP and many other programs.

There was also the case of the patent on links.

Patents are plain-stupid. Maybe the packages subject to known patents
could be staged in some area (such as "maybepatented"), but patents are
claims that are cheap to make. If Debian cares too much about patents it
will end up not distributing any useful software.

Maybe we should remove Gnome and KDE of the archive, after all: they
contain progress bars, which are patented. Did Debian have a legal check
about whether the bars of GTK or Qt do not infringe? Numerous texts on
the web say that they do infringe.
http://swpat.ffii.org/pikta/txt/ep/0394/160/


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Re: How to purge linux-image-2.6.14

2006-01-26 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Sam Morris wrote:

> PS - why do packages without any config files get into the config-files
> state in the first place? :)

Possibly, because dpkg can only know if a package has conffiles, and not
configuration files in general?

Look up the details in policy, but not all configuration files are
managed by dpkg. Packages may manage their own (using, e.g., ucf) as
long as they follow the rules laid out by policy.

BTW: I think sometimes packages do go strait from installed to purged on
just remove... Not 100% sure if it even happens, but maybe its if there
is no postrm script and no conffiles.


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Re: Obsolete packages in Experimental

2006-01-26 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
apt-show-versions | grep /experimental

should work too, but I haven't tested it (no experimental packages
installed on this machine)


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Re: How to purge linux-image-2.6.14

2006-01-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Anthony DeRobertis [Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:51:06 -0500]:

> BTW: I think sometimes packages do go strait from installed to purged on
> just remove... Not 100% sure if it even happens, but maybe its if there
> is no postrm script and no conffiles.

  Yes. From policy:

  6.7. Details of removal and/or configuration purging
  

[...]

  3.remove

  4.   All the maintainer scripts except the `postrm' are removed.

If we aren't purging the package we stop here.  Note that
packages which have no `postrm' and no `conffile's are
automatically purged when removed, as there is no difference
except for the `dpkg' status.

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Re: returning emeritus developer, no response from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-01-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] over a week
> ago, as described here:
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/02/msg3.html
> 
> so far not even a response telling me I'm in a queue.
> Is the procedure described above still the right one?

DAM is very slow-moving these days.  Probably they haven't looked at your mail 
yet.


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Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 21 janvier 2006 à 21:52 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:21:34PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > Python is the "official" language of Ubuntu. If we want to merge work
> > they're doing (Anthony Towns mentioned their work on boot speed, for
> > example) it's a good idea to structure our Python like theirs is. This
> > (...)
> 
> Boot speed and python does not really sound a match...

Surprisingly, python is often faster than perl for the same task.
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Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 21 janvier 2006 à 01:48 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit :
> Granted if it is a real issue, then why not use perl?   Yes, I hate
> perl too, but really, the argument "hey, people like Python too"
> implies that we should have a scheme interpreter, a perl, a python,
> emacs lisp, and well, everything anyone might want.

Or we can accept python for the same reasons that perl was accepted: it
is suitable, enough people like to write scripts in it, and many people
expect to be able to use it.

Sorry, but there's a whole new generation of Debian developers here that
simply won't develop anything in perl, just because perl looks too
complex and cryptic to us. Now, with bash, perl and python, we can deal
with the scripting needs for at least a few releases; trying to
anticipate what will happen later is pure speculation.

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sarge, unstable, lvm2 and kernels

2006-01-26 Thread Juha Jäykkä
Hi!

At the moment, there is no way to upgrade from sarge to unstable if you
happen to have / on LVM2. Suppose I have installed "kernel-image-2.6-686"
as my kernel; the 2.4 kernel behaves similarly. This is what happens:

1a) dist-upgrade all packages
2a) lvm2 will complain that it cannot be installed with kernels < 2.6.12
3a) system works

OR

1b) dist-upgrade all packages
2b) lvm2 complains as above
3b) try to install newest unstable kernel, 2.6.15
4b) 2.6.15 installs fine
5b) system will not boot (it dies mounting /sys, so I assume it's on initrd)

OR

1c) dist-upgrade to *testing*
2c) lvm installs fine
3c) install testing's kernel (currently 2.6.12)
4c) reboot
5c) dist-upgrade to unstable
6c) all is fine, except the system STILL won't boot.

Which package is broken, lvm2 or the kernel? I would guess the kernel
since the same version of lvm works fine with 2.6.12.

Cheers,
Juha

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Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-26 Thread Frank Küster
Daniel Knabl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>* Instead of setting an insecure default password and warning the admin
>>  about it, you could like ... ask for a secure password with debconf.
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/01/msg00418.html
>
> To explain: this is not the password for the mysql user, instead it is
> the password for the "virtual" siteadmin (inside vexim). Please see
> next part.

If it is a password, it shouldn't be insecure.  Even for a virtual
admin. 

>>* postinst is sometimes called with other values (*not* only
>>  configure). Though these are perfectly OK, your postinst script will
>>  fail.
>
> Could you describe what you exactly think about? (so that I can imagine
> what would happen ... and learn from this)

file:///usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-mscriptsinstact

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Kernel compile fails.

2006-01-26 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche

Hi,

   I have a box with Sid with the latest upgrades, (almost cause 
dist-upgrade wants to remove a lot of stuff)


Anyway, fact is that I can't compile any kernel on the Linus tree. This, 
for more than a month.


Could anyone please help me find out which package is the broken one? 
/bin/sh in Bash.


Thanks,


CRC32c (Castagnoli, et al) Cyclic Redundancy-Check (LIBCRC32C) [Y/?] y
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/linux-2.6'
/usr/bin/makeARCH=i386 prepare
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/linux-2.6'
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `set -e; echo '  CHK include/linux/version.h'; 
mkdir -p include/linux/;if [ `echo -n "2.6.16-rc1 .file null 
.ident GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060115(prerelease)(Debian4.0.2-7) .section 
.note.GNU-stack,,@progbits" | wc -c ` -gt 64 ]; then echo '"2.6.16-rc1 
.file null .ident GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060115(prerelease)(Debian4.0.2-7) 
.section .note.GNU-stack,,@progbits" exceeds 64 characters' >&2; exit 1; 
fi; (echo \#define UTS_RELEASE \"2.6.16-rc1 .file null .ident 
GCC:(GNU)4.0.320060115(prerelease)(Debian4.0.2-7) .section 
.note.GNU-stack,,@progbits\"; echo \#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE `expr 2 
\\* 65536 + 6 \\* 256 + 16`; echo '#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) 
<< 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))'; ) < /root/linux-2.6/Makefile > 
include/linux/version.h.tmp; if [ -r include/linux/version.h ] && cmp -s 
include/linux/version.h include/linux/version.h.tmp; then rm -f 
include/linux/version.h.tmp; else echo '  UPD 
include/linux/version.h'; mv -f include/linux/version.h.tmp 
include/linux/version.h; fi'

make[1]: *** [include/linux/version.h] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/linux-2.6'
make: *** [debian/stamp-kernel-conf] Error 2


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Jobs in Debian Linux

2006-01-26 Thread Johnny Boudreau
Hey fellow Debian users,   Do you know if there are any companies in the US that are looking to hire Debian Technicians?  I've been out of work for several months now, unemployment has run out and the landlord is threatening eviction.  
HELP NEEDED.  I should say right away too that if I saw a letter like this myself, my first thought would be a possible scam.  Not at all, I am NOT looking for 'fast money'...just a job, honestly.Microsoft had a layoff back in April 2005 after taking over Groove Networks. I had been with Groove for about 5 years, and even though there was really no reason to let people go (it's not like the company was low on money),  I was still released!!  After being released, I changed my home network/LAN completely over to Linux.  I tried out several different versions of Linux but finally settled on Debian, which, in my opinion, turned out to be the best.  There is NOTHING I would like more now than to work solely with Debian Linux for employment. I know a lot of us are just volunteers but I figured while job searching, why not check with you guys to see if this may be an option for me.  I'll tell you this, I surely have the proper motivation to help in having Linux take business away from Microsoft!
So bottom line, my question is...  Are there any companies out there in the United States that are using Debian Linux where I could possibly gain employment?   Thanks for any help you might be able to give me,
 Regards,
 Johnny Boudreau Peabody, Massachusetts (about 12 miles North of Boston)P.S. Here is a link to my resume.  It is on my website here ---> 
http://johnny.boudreau.com/resume.htmPlease feel free to pass it on to job recruiters or any other company that could help. Thanks again.



Re: Kernel compile fails.

2006-01-26 Thread Linas Zvirblis

Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote:

   I have a box with Sid with the latest upgrades, (almost cause 
dist-upgrade wants to remove a lot of stuff)


Anyway, fact is that I can't compile any kernel on the Linus tree. This, 
for more than a month.


Could anyone please help me find out which package is the broken one? 
/bin/sh in Bash.


I accidentally replied this to debian-user, but it actually belongs 
there. This is breakage in kernel, not Debian.



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Re: returning emeritus developer, no response from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-01-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Nathanael Nerode [Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:42:35 -0500]:

> Probably they haven't looked at your mail yet.

  Can we please fast-track this clairvoyant NM?

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Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:12:35PM +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> Le samedi 21 janvier 2006 à 21:52 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> > On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:21:34PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > wrote:
> > > Python is the "official" language of Ubuntu. If we want to merge work
> > > they're doing (Anthony Towns mentioned their work on boot speed, for
> > > example) it's a good idea to structure our Python like theirs is. This
> > > (...)
> > 
> > Boot speed and python does not really sound a match...
> 
> Surprisingly, python is often faster than perl for the same task.

Boot speed and perl does not really sound a match either.

Mike


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Re: How to purge linux-image-2.6.14

2006-01-26 Thread Cesare Leonardi

Sam Morris wrote:
You need to edit "/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7.postrm". 
Comment out line 268, which reads: "$ret = stop ();". Then purge the 
package.


Thank you very much for the precise information: it works.
And thanks also to have CC'ed your reply to #344767.

Regards.

Cesare.


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Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 26 janvier 2006 à 21:46 +0100, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> > > Boot speed and python does not really sound a match...
> > 
> > Surprisingly, python is often faster than perl for the same task.
> 
> Boot speed and perl does not really sound a match either.

It sounds easier to do high level tasks like boot tasks scheduling or
intelligent caching in a high level language. The best choice for such a
tool would be C, but the speed of the tool itself isn't necessarily the
main limitation.
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Bug#350048: ITP: jigl -- Generates a static html photo gallery from one or more directories of images

2006-01-26 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


* Package name: jigl
  Version : 2.0.1
  Upstream Author : Jason Paul
* URL : http://xome.net/projects/jigl/
* License : GPL
  Description : Generates a static html photo gallery from one or more 
directories of images

Perl script that generates a static html photo gallery from one or
more directories of gif/jpg/png images. It supports themes and is very
customizable. It includes the ability to display comments and EXIF
info for each image in a simple clean layout.

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Bug#350054: ITP: libxml-feed-perl -- Syndication feed parser and auto-discovery

2006-01-26 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
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* Package name: libxml-feed-perl
  Version : 0.07
  Upstream Author : Six Apart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/~btrott/
* License : GPL/Artistic
  Description : Syndication feed parser and auto-discovery

 XML::Feed is a syndication feed parser for both RSS and Atom feeds. It
 also implements feed auto-discovery for finding feeds, given a URI.
 .
 XML::Feed supports the following syndication feed formats:
 .
  * RSS 0.91
  * RSS 1.0
  * RSS 2.0
  * Atom
 .
 The goal of XML::Feed is to provide a unified API for parsing and 
 using the various syndication formats.


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Re: /run vs. /lib/run

2006-01-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 25 January 2006 22:40, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tim Cutts wrote:
> > [...] In my case I was mounting /var/run
> > and /var/lock as  tmpfs filesystems all the time to reduce hard disk
> > access on a machine that was running all the time.
>
> Ubuntu is already mounting tmpfs's on /var/lock and /var/run.  It's a
> reasonable thing to do and we should support it.  That means that
> packages using these directories should create any subdirectories they
> need.

It's convenient that they did it first, now we can copy them with less 
breakage expected.

Are there any other related things that we should be copying from them?

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ITP: fmit -- free music instrument tuner

2006-01-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi,

This is just to note that we're trying to package fmit.
It's a GPL tuner.



> |--==> Junichi Uekawa writes:
> 
>   JU> Hi,
>   >>Yes, I've prepared  the first package to upload,  it's a new  one (see
>   >>#280876, the ITP is from Emiliano Grilli but I'll maintain the package
>   >>myself).
> 
>   JU> Reading the BTS, it looks like it was a closed ITP.
> 
> I've noticed that the bug was closed, but I reopened it, following the
> indications from David Moreno Garza  who originally closed it. This is
> the relevant log:
> 
> Bug reopened, originator not changed. Request was from Free Ekanayaka <[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]> to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Full text and rfc822 format available.
> 
> Should I really submit a new ITP?

Nah, I don't think that's worth it.

I've noticed the following lintian warnings, and they sound like
legitimate ones; care to fix?

W: fmit: binary-without-manpage fmit
W: fmit: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory usr/share/doc/fmit/NEWS.gz
W: fmit: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory usr/share/doc/fmit/README


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Re: when and why did python(-minimal) become essential?

2006-01-26 Thread David Nusinow
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 04:17:43PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 21 janvier 2006 à 01:48 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit :
> > Granted if it is a real issue, then why not use perl?   Yes, I hate
> > perl too, but really, the argument "hey, people like Python too"
> > implies that we should have a scheme interpreter, a perl, a python,
> > emacs lisp, and well, everything anyone might want.
> 
> Or we can accept python for the same reasons that perl was accepted: it
> is suitable, enough people like to write scripts in it, and many people
> expect to be able to use it.
> 
> Sorry, but there's a whole new generation of Debian developers here that
> simply won't develop anything in perl, just because perl looks too
> complex and cryptic to us. Now, with bash, perl and python, we can deal
> with the scripting needs for at least a few releases; trying to
> anticipate what will happen later is pure speculation.

On the other hand, adding languages only adds to the complexity and tools
that a Debian developer should know to be effective. I've learned large
chunks of my bash and perl knowledge to reduce this problem in my own work,
rather than write it in the language I would have chosen had I been first
to the site. While perl has its share of problems, it's not that bad and
refusing to work in it is a little absurd.

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Bug#350068: ITP: zope-ploneexfile -- attach file to plone sites with indexing and preview capabilites

2006-01-26 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Jérémy Bobbio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

* Package name: zope-ploneexfile
  Version : 3.2.0
  Upstream Author : Ingeniweb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL :
  http://ingeniweb.sourceforge.net/Products/PloneExFile/
* License : GPL
  Description : attach file to plone sites with indexing and
preview capabilites

PloneExFile behaves mostly like the standard Plone File: it allows to
publish arbitrary files to a Plone site.

But, instead of showing an opaque file to the user, PloneExFile supports
previewing and indexing of the attached files.

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Bug#350070: zope-debhelper: Typo in dh_installzope manpage

2006-01-26 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Package: zope-debhelper
Version: 0.3.2.13
Severity: minor

dh_installzope manpage reads:

  dh_installzope automatically installs debian/dzproduct and
  debian/dzextension if it exists. If *dh_installdocs* is acting on
  multiple packages, debian/dzproduct and debian/dzextension files
  will be installed into the first package.  Use
  debian/package.dzproduct and debian/package.dzextension for
  different binary packages.

dh_installdocs should be replaced with dh_installzope.

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  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-amd64-k8
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages zope-debhelper depends on:
ii  debhelper 5.0.21 helper programs for debian/rules
ii  perl  5.8.7-10   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

zope-debhelper recommends no packages.

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Work-needing packages report for Jan 27, 2006

2006-01-26 Thread wnpp
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: 200 (new: 12)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 100 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requested help for: 20 (new: 0)

Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.



The following packages have been orphaned:

   dfm (#349205), orphaned 5 days ago
 Description: The Desktop-File-Manager for X11
 Installations reported by Popcon: 66

   enscript (#349321), orphaned 4 days ago
 Description: Converts ASCII text to Postscript, HTML, RTF or
   Pretty-Print
 Reverse Depends: kdeprint hylafax-client magicfilter
 Installations reported by Popcon: 4334

   gkrelldnet (#349581), orphaned 3 days ago
 Description: dnetc plugin for GKrellM
 Installations reported by Popcon: 11

   ieee80211 (#349165), orphaned 5 days ago
 Description: Source for the 802.11 (wireless) network stack for
   Linux
 Reverse Depends: ipw2200-source ipw2100-source
 Installations reported by Popcon: 253

   ipw2200 (#349164), orphaned 5 days ago
 Description: Source for the ipw2200 driver
 Installations reported by Popcon: 167

   manpages-ko (#349265), orphaned 5 days ago
 Installations reported by Popcon: 8

   pgaccess (#349243), orphaned 5 days ago
 Description: Tk/Tcl interface to PostgreSQL
 Installations reported by Popcon: 471

   php-net-checkip (#349007), orphaned 6 days ago (non-free)
 Description: check the syntax of IPv4 addresses
 Installations reported by Popcon: 2

   ud (#349833), orphaned yesterday
 Installations reported by Popcon: 253

   vstream (#349197), orphaned 5 days ago
 Description: bttv video capture utility aimed at making MPEGs
 Installations reported by Popcon: 104

   wmgtemp (#349201), orphaned 5 days ago
 Description: Temperature sensor dockapp for Window Maker
 Installations reported by Popcon: 90

   wmitime (#349245), orphaned 5 days ago
 Description: yet another clock dock app for Window Maker
 Installations reported by Popcon: 288

188 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.



The following packages have been given up for adoption:

   sms-pl (#349542), offered 3 days ago
 Description: Send SMs via Polish GSM operators
 Installations reported by Popcon: 52

99 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage for a complete list.



For the following packages help is requested:

   aboot (#315592), requested 217 days ago
 Description: Alpha bootloader: Looking for co-maintainers
 Reverse Depends: aboot-cross ltsp-server dfsbuild aboot
 Installations reported by Popcon: 55

   athcool (#278442), requested 457 days ago
 Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
 Installations reported by Popcon: 197

   debtags (#321654), requested 173 days ago
 Description: Enables support for package tags
 Reverse Depends: debtags-edit
 Installations reported by Popcon: 498

   dselect (#282283), requested 432 days ago
 Description: a user tool to manage Debian packages

   grub (#248397), requested 626 days ago
 Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
 Reverse Depends: grubconf replicator dfsbuild grub-splashimages
 Installations reported by Popcon: 6748

   gtkpod (#319711), requested 186 days ago
 Description: manage songs and playlists on an Apple iPod
 Installations reported by Popcon: 241

   lib (#329966), requested 124 days ago
 Description: Perl interfaces to the Gtk and Gnome libraries

   lsdvd (#316922), requested 206 days ago
 Description: read the contents of a DVD
 Installations reported by Popcon: 723

   mwavem (#313369), requested 227 days ago (non-free)
 Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
 Installations reported by Popcon: 2

   openssl (#332498), requested 112 days ago
 Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
   cryptographic tools
 Reverse Depends: openssh-server-udeb libaqbanking0c2a
   libecpg-compat2 nsd heimdal-kdc apache-ssl pound aqbanking-tool
   avscan nessus libpam-ssh bzflag-server wpasupplicant dsniff
   linuxtrade libneon24 wmmaiload fetchmail libnet-ssleay-perl slapd
   python2.4-pyopenssl liblasso3 ultrapossum-tls ssmtp clamav-freshclam
   sqlrelay-sqlite cacti-cactid d4x perdition-mysql sylpheed hplip
   sylpheed-claws-gtk2 sylpheed-gtk1 libapache-mod-php4 php4-cgi
   postgresql-contrib-8.1 libpq3 libaqbanking-ofx0 python2.2-pyopenssl