Work-needing packages report for Apr 30, 2010
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: 592 (new: 6)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 140 (new: 9)
Total number of packages requested help for: 65 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
genext2fs (#579369), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: ext2 filesystem generator for embedded systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 329
gob2 (#579454), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: GTK+ Object Builder
Installations reported by Popcon: 163
gplanarity (#579368), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: simple puzzle game involving untangling planar graphs
Installations reported by Popcon: 236
kiki (#579371), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: tool for python regular expression testing
Reverse Depends: spe
Installations reported by Popcon: 359
pympd (#579370), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Frontend for mpd in the style of rhythmbox and itunes
Installations reported by Popcon: 129
pype (#579372), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: python programmers editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 117
586 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:
calendarserver (#579610), offered today
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
nss-updatedb (#579616), offered today
Description: Cache name service directories in DB format
Installations reported by Popcon: 315
pudge (#579116), offered 4 days ago
Description: documentation generator for Python projects
Installations reported by Popcon: 34
pydirector (#579612), offered today
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
pykerberos (#579615), offered today
Description: A GSSAPI interface module for Python
Reverse Depends: calendarserver
Installations reported by Popcon: 212
python-xattr (#579614), offered today
Reverse Depends: calendarserver
Installations reported by Popcon: 280
pywavelets (#579114), offered 4 days ago
Description: Python extension implementing of wavelet
transformations
Installations reported by Popcon: 107
sms-pl (#579113), offered 4 days ago
Description: Send SMs via Polish GSM operators
Installations reported by Popcon: 85
twisted-calendarserver (#579611), offered today
Reverse Depends: calendarserver
Installations reported by Popcon: 118
131 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:
apt-cross (#540341), requested 265 days ago
Description: retrieve, build and install libraries for
cross-compiling
Reverse Depends: apt-cross emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa
emdebian-rootfs emdebian-tools libemdebian-tools-perl
Installations reported by Popcon: 349
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 87 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache
Installations reported by Popcon: 10866
ara (#450876), requested 900 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 114
asymptote (#517342), requested 426 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1275
athcool (#278442), requested 2011 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 152
boinc (#511243), requested 476 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1648
cron (#565143), requested 106 days ago
Description: process scheduling daemon
Reverse Depends: apticron autolog backintime-common buildd
checksecurity cricket dtc-common email-reminder exim4-base fiaif (19
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91636
cvs (#354176), requested 1526 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: autopoint crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb
cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd
cvsps (12 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 25281
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 915 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies debtree dlocate
haskell-devscripts javahelper libsbuild-perl linux-patch-debianlogo
simple-cdd ubuntu-dev-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 13746
debtags (#567954), requested 87 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: debtags-edit goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2674
dietlibc (#544060), requested 244 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 238
doc-central (#566364), requested 96 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 292
dpkg (#282283), requested 1985 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: acct adacontrol advi advi-examples alien alqalam
alsa-source am-utils-doc apt-build apt-cross (500 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91743
elvis (#432298), requested 1025 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: 416
emdebian-tools (#540333), requested 265 days ago
Description: emdebian crossbuilding tool set
Reverse Depends: emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa emdebian-tools
mlton-target-alpha-linux-gnu mlton-target-arm-linux-gnueabi
mlton-target-hppa-linux-gnu mlton-target-i486-linux-gnu
mlton-target-ia64-linux-gnu mlton-target-mips-linux-gnu
mlton-target-mipsel-linux-gnu (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 191
fbcat (#565156), requested 106 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Reverse Depends: fbgrab
Installations reported by Popcon: 30
flightgear (#487388), requested 677 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 655
flite (#576327), requested 26 days ago
Description: A small run-time speech synthesis engine
Reverse Depends: asterisk-flite brltty-flite eflite flite flite1-dev
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad speech-dispatcher
Installations reported by Popcon: 3655
gentoo (#422498), requested 1089 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 230
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 749 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacontrol asis-programs ghdl gnat
gnat-4.4 gnat-gps gprbuild libadasockets-dev libahven1-dev (67 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 478
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 609 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 223
grub2 (#248397), requested 2180 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: grub grub-coreboot grub-disk grub-efi
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-ia32 grub-ieee1275 grub-legacy
grub-linuxbios grub-pc (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 70700
gwibber (#573822), requested 46 days ago
Description: microblogging client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 406
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 155 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 747
hibernate (#558739), requested 150 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15385
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 702 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 11041
imagemagick (#452314), requested 890 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ansel1 ascd asymptote
bins calibre docbook2odf dotlrn (94 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 30908
jove (#470185), requested 781 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 439
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 432 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 45
koffice (#541691), requested 257 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 2840
kvm (#479951), requested 722 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1810
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 190 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Reverse Depends: clustalx cmucl-clm ddd dx elk geomview grace grass
gridengine-qmon hotswap-gui (51 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15523
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 432 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15928
libcap2 (#534999), requested 305 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: apache2.2-bin asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bind9
bind9-host bind9utils dnsutils hercules libbind9-60 (64 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 71666
libopenraw (#530244), requested 341 days ago
Description: free implementation for RAW decoding
Reverse Depends: libopenraw-dev libopenraw1-dbg libopenrawgnome-dev
libopenrawgnome1 libopenrawgnome1-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 6239
link-grammar (#556010), requested 167 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Reverse Depends: abiword-plugin-grammar liblink-grammar4
liblink-grammar4-dev liblink-grammar4-java link-grammar
Installations reported by Popcon: 8618
logcheck (#539944), requested 268 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4489
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1337 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 577
lzma (#553707), requested 179 days ago
Description: future of Debian squashfs-lzma
Reverse Depends: dtrx libcomplearn-mod-lzmax locales-all lzma-source
vsag
Installations reported by Popcon: 75252
mdadm (#537993), requested 281 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 12790
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 694 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-extensions
mediawiki-extensions-confirmedit mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor
mediawiki-extensions-geshi mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth
mediawiki-extensions-openid mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 494
mol (#436450), requested 996 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: 32
monotone (#574609), requested 41 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Reverse Depends: monotone-doc monotone-server qct
Installations reported by Popcon: 318
mtr (#527482), requested 357 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 31195
mutt (#512072), requested 468 days ago
Description: text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and
threading
Reverse Depends: debreaper metche mutt-dbg mutt-patched muttprofile
Installations reported by Popcon: 76967
mwavem (#313369), requested 1781 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
nas (#354174), requested 1526 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss basket
camstream celestia-kde creox djplay (148 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 44889
nn (#470187), requested 781 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 109
nvidia-graphics-drivers (#568952), requested 79 days ago (non-free)
Description: Developer needed to take on major role in packaging
team
Reverse Depends: libcuda1-dev nvidia-glx-dev nvidia-libvdpau-dev
nvidia-libvdpau1 nvidia-libvdpau1-ia32 nvidia-vdpau-driver
nvidia-vdpau-driver-ia32
Installations reported by Popcon: 4606
openbox (#566900), requested 94 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Reverse Depends: libobrender21 lxde-core obconf openbox openbox-dev
openbox-themes
Installations reported by Popcon: 3394
openldap (#512360), requested 464 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: adtool alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
apache2.2-bin asterisk asterisk-h323 audispd-plugins autofs-ldap
autofs5-ldap (215 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 74602
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 1109 days ago
Description: OpenOffice.org Office suite
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-common brdesktop-gnome broffice.org
cli-uno-bridge docvert-openoffice.org jabref-plugin-oo
libjodconverter-java libuno-cli-cppuhelper1.0-cil
libuno-cli-oootypes1.0-cil libuno-cli-ure1.0-cil (107 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41073
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1297 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: flightgear libopenscenegraph-dev
libopenscenegraph56 libopenscenegraph65 libopenthreads-dev libosgal1
libossim1 openscenegraph osgcal ossim-core (2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 373
openssl (#332498), requested 1666 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 3270-common afbackup afbackup-client afflib-tools
aimage aircrack-ng alpine anon-proxy aolserver4-nsimap
aolserver4-nsopenssl (689 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91357
phpwiki (#540061), requested 267 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 66
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1235 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Installations reported by Popcon: 365
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 415 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Reverse Depends: dtc-common gadmin-proftpd proftpd-dev
proftpd-mod-ldap proftpd-mod-mysql proftpd-mod-odbc
proftpd-mod-pgsql proftpd-mod-sqlite
Installations reported by Popcon: 6345
pyro (#530280), requested 341 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 322
quilt (#543541), requested 247 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Reverse Depends: audacious-plugins-dev batmand-gateway-source
broadcom-sta-source et131x-source gcc-4.4-source gpib-modules-source
gquilt libfusioninventory-agent-task-netdiscovery-perl
libfusioninventory-agent-task-snmpquery-perl mozilla-devscripts (3
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7503
resolvconf (#477723), requested 735 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 9493
sepolgen (#483641), requested 699 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 13713
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 765 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
usplash (#563195), requested 119 days ago
Description: Userspace bootsplash utility
Reverse Depends: education-thin-client libusplash-dev
tuxonice-userui usplash
Installations reported by Popcon: 1187
wine (#479659), requested 723 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Reverse Depends: dssi-vst libwine-alsa libwine-capi libwine-cms
libwine-dbg libwine-dev libwine-esd libwine-gl libwine-gphoto2
libwine-jack (12 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13711
yasr (#474251), requested 755 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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