Work-needing packages report for Aug 13, 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: 587 (new: 5)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 139 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 68 (new: 2)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
deborphan (#592071), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: program that can find unused packages, e.g. libraries
Reverse Depends: gtkorphan upgrade-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 19804
ktranslator (#592296), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: translate words from one language to another
Installations reported by Popcon: 202
lilo (#592200), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can load Linux and
others
Installations reported by Popcon: 2507
mol (#592034), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Mac-on-Linux emulator
Reverse Depends: mol-drivers-linux mol-drivers-macos
mol-drivers-macosx mol-modules-source
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
tcsh (#592093), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: TENEX C Shell, an enhanced version of Berkeley csh
Reverse Depends: afbackup afbackup-client fsl-4.1 gridengine-exec
jemboss radiance tau-racy
Installations reported by Popcon: 27677
582 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.
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No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 139 packages
are awaiting adoption. 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] bastille (#592137), requested 5 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 445
[NEW] mol (#592034), requested 5 days ago
Description: Mac-on-Linux emulator
Reverse Depends: mol-drivers-linux mol-drivers-macos
mol-drivers-macosx mol-modules-source
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
apt-cross (#540341), requested 370 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: 332
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 192 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 12515
ara (#450876), requested 1005 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 102
asymptote (#517342), requested 531 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1270
athcool (#278442), requested 2116 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 125
boinc (#511243), requested 581 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1509
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 74 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromium-browser chromium-browser-dbg
chromium-browser-l10n gecko-mediaplayer sun-java6-plugin
Installations reported by Popcon: 1697
cobbler (#590044), requested 20 days ago
Description: Install server
cvs (#354176), requested 1631 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: 22312
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 1020 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: 12497
debtags (#567954), requested 192 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2468
dietlibc (#544060), requested 349 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 232
doc-central (#566364), requested 201 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 282
dpkg (#282283), requested 2090 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: a2ps acct ace-gperf acl2-doc adacontrol advi
advi-examples alien alqalam alsa-source (530 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 88572
elvis (#432298), requested 1130 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: 320
fbcat (#565156), requested 211 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Reverse Depends: fbgrab
Installations reported by Popcon: 82
fglrx-driver (#588361), requested 36 days ago (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: 1543
flightgear (#487388), requested 782 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 557
flite (#576327), requested 131 days ago
Description: A small run-time speech synthesis engine
Reverse Depends: asterisk-flite brltty-flite eflite flite flite1-dev
gnustep-gui-runtime gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad speech-dispatcher
Installations reported by Popcon: 11384
gentoo (#422498), requested 1194 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 216
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 854 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: 509
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 714 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 224
grub2 (#248397), requested 2285 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: 70875
gwibber (#573822), requested 151 days ago
Description: microblogging client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 464
hadoop (#579787), requested 104 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: 17
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 260 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 703
hibernate (#558739), requested 255 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12982
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 807 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 9032
imagemagick (#452314), requested 995 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ansel1 ascd asymptote
bins calibre calibre-bin cuneiform (100 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 30151
jove (#470185), requested 886 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 366
koffice (#541691), requested 362 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Reverse Depends: karbon kchart kexi kformula koffice koffice-dbg
koffice-dev koffice-libs kplato kpresenter (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2571
kvm (#479951), requested 827 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1934
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 295 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 (49 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 14159
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 537 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15167
libcap2 (#534999), requested 410 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 (74 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 71556
libopenraw (#530244), requested 446 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: 12456
link-grammar (#556010), requested 272 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: 8921
logcheck (#539944), requested 373 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4516
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1442 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 555
lzma (#553707), requested 284 days ago
Description: future of Debian squashfs-lzma
Reverse Depends: dtrx libcomplearn-mod-lzmax locales-all lzma-source
vsag
Installations reported by Popcon: 73824
mdadm (#537993), requested 386 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 12811
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 799 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: 487
monotone (#574609), requested 146 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Reverse Depends: monotone-doc monotone-server qct
Installations reported by Popcon: 297
mtr (#527482), requested 462 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 27342
mutt (#512072), requested 573 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: 73878
nas (#354174), requested 1631 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas audiooss camstream
celestia-kde creox djplay djview3 facturalux (106 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41418
nn (#470187), requested 886 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 105
openbox (#566900), requested 199 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: 3227
openldap (#512360), requested 569 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 (223 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 74605
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 1214 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: 37680
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1402 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph65
libopenthreads-dev libossim1 openscenegraph osgcal ossim-core
simgear-dev simgear1.9.1
Installations reported by Popcon: 251
openssl (#332498), requested 1771 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 (710 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 88230
otrs2 (#588363), requested 36 days ago
Description: Open Ticket Request System
Installations reported by Popcon: 211
phpwiki (#540061), requested 372 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 62
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1340 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 374
ppp (#589632), requested 24 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Reverse Depends: fso-frameworkd gpppon kppp network-manager-pptp
portslave pppconfig pppdcapiplugin pppoe pppoeconf pptp-linux (8
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 22950
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 520 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: 6440
pyro (#530280), requested 446 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples
Installations reported by Popcon: 311
quilt (#543541), requested 352 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
meego-packaging-tools mozilla-devscripts
nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source nvidia-kernel-source (2 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8383
resolvconf (#477723), requested 840 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Installations reported by Popcon: 8076
sepolgen (#483641), requested 804 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 12619
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 870 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 109
usplash (#563195), requested 224 days ago
Description: Userspace bootsplash utility
Reverse Depends: education-thin-client libusplash-dev
tuxonice-userui usplash
Installations reported by Popcon: 992
wine (#479659), requested 828 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: 12503
yasr (#474251), requested 860 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
zookeeper (#579791), requested 104 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: 8
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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