Work-needing packages report for Mar 16, 2012
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: 440 (new: 11)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 146 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requested help for: 61 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
battleball (#664091), orphaned today
Description: soccer game played with tanks or helicopters
Installations reported by Popcon: 140
blt (#664092), orphaned today
Description: the BLT extension library for Tcl/Tk - run-time package
Reverse Depends: blt-demo blt-dev python-tk python-tk-dbg python3-tk
python3-tk-dbg sixpack tclspice tclspice-dev tkdesk
Installations reported by Popcon: 15176
jester (#664093), orphaned today
Description: board game similar to Othello
Installations reported by Popcon: 79
openfst (#664163), orphaned today
Description: weighted finite-state transducers library
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
pilot-manager (#664094), orphaned today
Description: PalmPilot PIM, UI, and Conduit Manager
Reverse Depends: syncbbdb
Installations reported by Popcon: 94
syncbbdb (#664095), orphaned today
Description: BBDB to PalmOS Pilot Manager conduit
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
wmmail (#664096), orphaned today
Description: A mail notification program designed for WindowMaker
Installations reported by Popcon: 119
wmppp.app (#664097), orphaned today
Description: PPP dial control and network load monitor with NeXTStep
look
Installations reported by Popcon: 68
wmrack (#664098), orphaned today
Description: Combined CD Player + Mixer designed for WindowMaker
Installations reported by Popcon: 70
xarclock (#664099), orphaned today
Description: reversed xclock
Installations reported by Popcon: 76
xbomb (#664100), orphaned today
Description: a 'minesweeper' game with squares, hexagons or
triangles
Installations reported by Popcon: 161
429 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:
gpa (#663405), offered 5 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 533
145 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] irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 3 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1035
apache2 (#646208), requested 145 days ago
Description: Apache HTTP Server
Reverse Depends: aegis-web apache2 apache2-dbg apache2-mpm-event
apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-mpm-worker
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-suexec apache2-suexec-custom (176 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 63476
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 773 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 54181
asymptote (#517342), requested 1112 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3141
athcool (#278442), requested 2697 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 88
balsa (#642906), requested 172 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 274
bastille (#592137), requested 586 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 243
boinc (#511243), requested 1162 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc boinc-amd-opencl boinc-app-milkyway
boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg boinc-nvidia-cuda
Installations reported by Popcon: 1858
cardstories (#624100), requested 325 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 655 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromium chromium-browser chromium-browser-dbg
chromium-browser-inspector chromium-browser-l10n chromium-dbg
chromium-l10n mozplugger
Installations reported by Popcon: 10439
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 512 days ago
Description: configures encrypted block devices
Reverse Depends: cryptsetup cryptsetup-udeb libcryptsetup-dev
libguestfs0 libpam-mount ltsp-client mandos-client partman-crypto-dm
rescue-mode systemd
Installations reported by Popcon: 7726
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 1601 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies debtree dh-lua dlocate
haskell-devscripts javahelper libsbuild-perl linux-patch-debianlogo
postgresql-server-dev-all (2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15093
debtags (#567954), requested 773 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2577
doc-central (#566364), requested 782 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 210
dpkg (#282283), requested 2671 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: a2ps acct ace-gperf acl2-doc
ada-reference-manual-info adacontrol advi advi-examples alien
alqalam (796 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 124219
elvis (#432298), requested 1711 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: 391
fbcat (#565156), requested 792 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 155
flightgear (#487388), requested 1363 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 862
freeipmi (#628062), requested 294 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Reverse Depends: freeipmi-bmc-watchdog freeipmi-ipmidetect
freeipmi-tools libfreeipmi-dev libfreeipmi10 libipmiconsole-dev
libipmiconsole2 libipmidetect-dev libipmidetect0
libipmimonitoring-dev (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 890
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1430 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Reverse Depends: ghdl gnat-4.4 libalog0.3-base libalog0.3-full
libalog1-base-dev libalog1-full-dev libapq-postgresql1-dev
libapq-postgresql3.0 libapq1-dev libapq3.0 (12 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1367
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1295 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 411
gnupg (#660685), requested 24 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Reverse Depends: apt bootstrap-base cdebootstrap cdebootstrap-static
cdebootstrap-udeb clamav-unofficial-sigs debian-archive-keyring
debian-edu-archive-keyring debian-ports-archive-keyring
debpartial-mirror (45 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 124152
grub2 (#248397), requested 2866 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: grml-rescueboot grml2usb grub grub-coreboot
grub-coreboot-bin grub-disk grub-efi grub-efi-amd64
grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-ia32 (15 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 113551
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 841 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1141
hibernate (#558739), requested 836 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6890
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1388 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 4312
isdnutils (#661110), requested 20 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Reverse Depends: ant-phone asterisk-chan-capi capi4hylafax capiutils
drdsl ibod ipppd isdnactivecards isdnlog isdnutils-xtools (7 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1956
jove (#470185), requested 1467 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 828
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 876 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Reverse Depends: alliance cmucl-clm ddd dx elk geomview grace grass
gridengine-qmon hotswap-gui (49 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 17070
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1118 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 19390
libcap2 (#534999), requested 991 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: apache2.2-bin asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bind9
bind9-host bind9utils diod dnsutils gnome-keyring (77 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 115663
libnss-db (#624768), requested 319 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2742
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1795 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Reverse Depends: docvert-libreoffice gnome jabref-plugin-oo
jodreports-cli libjodconverter-java libjodreports-java libreoffice
libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc (241 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 46250
line6-usb (#652848), requested 86 days ago
Description: Line 6 POD driver source
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
link-grammar (#556010), requested 853 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: 14452
logcheck (#539944), requested 954 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 5248
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 2023 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 331
mdadm (#537993), requested 967 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 16415
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1380 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: 444
monotone (#574609), requested 727 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Reverse Depends: monotone-doc monotone-extras monotone-server qct
Installations reported by Popcon: 296
mtr (#527482), requested 1043 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 17897
nas (#354174), requested 2212 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm alsaplayer-nas gbsplay isdnvboxclient
libaudio-dev libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev libqtgui4 libwine-nas
libwine-nas-unstable (12 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 57316
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 19 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
nn (#470187), requested 1467 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 103
openbox (#566900), requested 780 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Reverse Depends: lxde-core obconf openbox openbox-dev openbox-themes
Installations reported by Popcon: 5600
openldap (#512360), requested 1150 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap apache2.2-bin
asterisk-modules audispd-plugins autofs5-ldap balsa bdii
citadel-server (197 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 117410
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1983 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: fgrun flightgear libopenscenegraph-dev
libopenscenegraph80 libopenthreads-dev libopenwalnut1
libopenwalnut1-dev libosgearth-dev libosgearth1 libossim1 (9 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 575
openssl (#332498), requested 2352 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 3270-common afflib-tools alpine amanda-client
amanda-common amanda-server anon-proxy aolserver4-nsopenssl
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-threaded-dev (692 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 119293
ppp (#589632), requested 605 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Reverse Depends: gpppon ipppd kppp network-manager-pptp portslave
pppconfig pppdcapiplugin pppoe pppoeconf pptp-linux (8 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 52108
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1101 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Reverse Depends: gadmin-proftpd proftpd-dev proftpd-mod-autohost
proftpd-mod-case proftpd-mod-dnsbl proftpd-mod-fsync
proftpd-mod-geoip proftpd-mod-ldap proftpd-mod-msg proftpd-mod-mysql
(5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8259
pyro (#530280), requested 1027 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 1073
qemu-kvm (#479951), requested 1408 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware
Reverse Depends: kvm libguestfs0 nova-compute-kvm qemu-kvm-dbg
qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 5448
quilt (#543541), requested 933 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Reverse Depends: gcc-4.4-source gcc-4.5-source gcc-4.6-source gquilt
meego-packaging-tools mozilla-devscripts
nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-source
nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-source nvidia-kernel-source (2 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12292
rng-tools (#630920), requested 271 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 612
scim (#661106), requested 20 days ago
Description: smart common input method platform
Reverse Depends: libscim-dev mlterm-im-scim plasma-widgets-addons
scim scim-anthy scim-array scim-canna scim-chewing scim-dev
scim-gtk2-immodule (13 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 10839
screen (#654116), requested 73 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Reverse Depends: apt-dater byobu cereal epoptes-client mdm podracer
screenie
Installations reported by Popcon: 40515
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1385 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 8330
serna-free (#640976), requested 188 days ago
Description: <missing description>
Reverse Depends: serna-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1451 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 89
wine (#479659), requested 1409 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: 13967
xml-core (#660687), requested 24 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Reverse Depends: datafreedom-qsfxsl dia-common docbook-ebnf
docbook-html-forms docbook-mathml docbook-simple docbook-slides
docbook-website docbook-xml docbook-xsl (12 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 98777
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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