Work-needing packages report for Jul 9, 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: 617 (new: 0)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 140 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requested help for: 67 (new: 2)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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No new packages have been orphaned, but a total of 617 packages are
orphaned. 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:
ca-certificates (#588219), offered 2 days ago
Description: Common CA certificates
Reverse Depends: boinc-client ca-certificates-java dtc-common
esniper freeradius libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls
Installations reported by Popcon: 70039
139 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:
[NEW] fglrx-driver (#588361), requested yesterday (non-free)
Description: non-free AMD/ATI r6xx - r7xx display driver
Reverse Depends: fglrx-atieventsd fglrx-control fglrx-driver
fglrx-glx fglrx-glx-ia32
Installations reported by Popcon: 1593
[NEW] otrs2 (#588363), requested yesterday
Installations reported by Popcon: 218
apt-cross (#540341), requested 335 days ago
Description: retrieve, build and install libraries for
cross-compiling
Reverse Depends: apt-cross emdebian-crush
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 mlton-target-powerpc-linux-gnu (3 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 339
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 157 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 12349
ara (#450876), requested 970 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 105
asymptote (#517342), requested 496 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1308
athcool (#278442), requested 2081 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 139
boinc (#511243), requested 546 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1579
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 39 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromium-browser chromium-browser-dbg
chromium-browser-l10n gecko-mediaplayer sun-java6-plugin
Installations reported by Popcon: 1435
cvs (#354176), requested 1596 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsps cvsservice (10
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 24355
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 985 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: 12810
debtags (#567954), requested 157 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: debtags-edit goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2585
dietlibc (#544060), requested 314 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 243
doc-central (#566364), requested 166 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 276
dpkg (#282283), requested 2055 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: a2ps acct acl2-doc adacontrol advi advi-examples
alien alqalam alsa-source am-utils-doc (530 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 90659
elvis (#432298), requested 1095 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: 356
fbcat (#565156), requested 176 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Reverse Depends: fbgrab
Installations reported by Popcon: 84
flightgear (#487388), requested 747 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 585
flite (#576327), requested 96 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: 10659
gentoo (#422498), requested 1159 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 223
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 819 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacgi0 adacontrol asis-programs ghdl
gnat gnat-4.4 gnat-gps gprbuild libadasockets-dev (71 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 529
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 679 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 234
grub2 (#248397), requested 2250 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 (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 71691
gwibber (#573822), requested 116 days ago
Description: microblogging client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 491
hadoop (#579787), requested 69 days ago
Description: software platform for processing vast amounts of data
Reverse Depends: hadoop-bin hadoop-daemons-common hadoop-datanoded
hadoop-jobtrackerd hadoop-namenoded hadoop-secondarynamenoded
hadoop-tasktrackerd hbase-daemons-common libhadoop-index-java
libhadoop-java-doc (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 225 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 709
hibernate (#558739), requested 220 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13962
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 772 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 9809
imagemagick (#452314), requested 960 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ansel1 ascd asymptote
bins calibre calibre-bin cuneiform (99 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 31035
jove (#470185), requested 851 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 403
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 502 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
koffice (#541691), requested 327 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 2592
kvm (#479951), requested 792 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1875
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 260 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: 14913
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 502 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15777
libcap2 (#534999), requested 375 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: apache2.2-bin asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bind9
bind9-host bind9utils cifs-utils dnsutils hercules (71 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 72503
libopenraw (#530244), requested 411 days ago
Description: free implementation for RAW decoding
Reverse Depends: libgegl-0.0-0 libopenraw-dev libopenraw1-dbg
libopenrawgnome-dev libopenrawgnome1 libopenrawgnome1-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 12134
link-grammar (#556010), requested 237 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: 8896
logcheck (#539944), requested 338 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4488
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1407 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 578
lzma (#553707), requested 249 days ago
Description: future of Debian squashfs-lzma
Reverse Depends: dtrx libcomplearn-mod-lzmax locales-all lzma-source
vsag
Installations reported by Popcon: 74971
mdadm (#537993), requested 351 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 12865
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 764 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-extensions
mediawiki-extensions-collection mediawiki-extensions-confirmedit
mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor mediawiki-extensions-geshi
mediawiki-extensions-graphviz mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth
mediawiki-extensions-openid mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 483
mol (#436450), requested 1066 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: 29
monotone (#574609), requested 111 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Reverse Depends: monotone-doc monotone-server qct
Installations reported by Popcon: 316
mtr (#527482), requested 427 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 28925
mutt (#512072), requested 538 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: 75658
mwavem (#313369), requested 1851 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
nas (#354174), requested 1596 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas audiooss camstream
celestia-kde creox djplay djview3 dssi-example-plugins (109 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 43363
nn (#470187), requested 851 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 100
openbox (#566900), requested 164 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: 3352
openldap (#512360), requested 534 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 (224 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 75498
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 1179 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: 39306
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1367 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph65
libopenthreads-dev openscenegraph simgear-dev simgear1.9.1
Installations reported by Popcon: 183
openssl (#332498), requested 1736 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 (702 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 90286
phpwiki (#540061), requested 337 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 61
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1305 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 383
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 485 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: 6457
pyro (#530280), requested 411 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples
Installations reported by Popcon: 338
quilt (#543541), requested 317 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Reverse Depends: batmand-gateway-source broadcom-sta-source
et131x-source gcc-4.4-source gpib-modules-source gquilt
mozilla-devscripts nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source
nvidia-kernel-source open-vm-source (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8456
resolvconf (#477723), requested 805 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Installations reported by Popcon: 8677
sepolgen (#483641), requested 769 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 13175
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 835 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
usplash (#563195), requested 189 days ago
Description: Userspace bootsplash utility
Reverse Depends: education-thin-client libusplash-dev
tuxonice-userui usplash
Installations reported by Popcon: 1084
wine (#479659), requested 793 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 (13 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13076
yasr (#474251), requested 825 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 46
zookeeper (#579791), requested 69 days ago
Description: Information management inside a cluster. Part of the
hadoop family.
Reverse Depends: libhbase-java libzkclient-java libzookeeper-dev
libzookeeper-java-doc python-zookeeper zookeeper zookeeper-bin
zookeeperd
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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