Work-needing packages report for Jan 24, 2014
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: 520 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 155 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 55 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
joy2key (#735913), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Translate joystick movements into equivalent keystrokes
Installations reported by Popcon: 244
pam-shield (#735912), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: locks out remote attackers trying password guessing
Installations reported by Popcon: 61
518 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:
ocaml-dbus (#735882), offered 5 days ago
Description: OCaml bindings for the D-Bus API
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
paredit-el (#736380), offered yesterday
Description: Emacs minor mode for structurally editing Lisp code
Installations reported by Popcon: 87
153 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-xapian-index (#567955), requested 1452 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: ept-cache fuss-launcher goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 78605
athcool (#278442), requested 3376 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
balsa (#642906), requested 851 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 799
cardstories (#624100), requested 1004 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 1334 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromium chromium-dbg chromium-l10n mozplugger
Installations reported by Popcon: 23967
cups (#532097), requested 1692 days ago
Description: Common UNIX Printing System
Reverse Depends: bluez-cups chromium cups cups-backend-bjnp
cups-browsed cups-bsd cups-client cups-daemon cups-dbg cups-filters
(59 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 134496
debtags (#567954), requested 1452 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2455
fbcat (#565156), requested 1471 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 155
freeipmi (#628062), requested 973 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Reverse Depends: freeipmi freeipmi-bmc-watchdog freeipmi-ipmidetect
freeipmi-tools libfreeipmi-dev libfreeipmi12 libipmiconsole-dev
libipmiconsole2 libipmidetect-dev libipmidetect0 (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 4364
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 2114 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: dh-ada-library ghdl gnat-4.4 libgnat-4.4
libgnat-4.4-dbg libgnatprj-dev libgnatprj4.4 libgnatprj4.4-dbg
libgnatprj4.4-dev libgnatvsn-dev (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1005
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1974 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 520
gnokii (#677750), requested 586 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Reverse Depends: gnokii gnokii-cli gnokii-smsd gnokii-smsd-mysql
gnokii-smsd-pgsql gnome-phone-manager libgnokii-dev libgnokii6
xgnokii
Installations reported by Popcon: 1875
gnupg (#660685), requested 703 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Reverse Depends: apt bootstrap-base cdebootstrap cdebootstrap-static
cdebootstrap-udeb clamav-unofficial-sigs cloud-utils
debian-archive-keyring debian-edu-archive-keyring
debian-ports-archive-keyring (54 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 163612
gpa (#663405), requested 684 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 627
gradle (#683666), requested 539 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Reverse Depends: gradle libgradle-plugins-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 56
gridengine (#703256), requested 312 days ago
Description: Distributed resource management
Reverse Depends: gridengine-client gridengine-drmaa-dev
gridengine-exec gridengine-master gridengine-qmon logol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1242
grub2 (#248397), requested 3545 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: grml-rescueboot grml2usb grub-coreboot
grub-coreboot-bin grub-coreboot-dbg grub-disk grub-efi
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-dbg (27 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 156427
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1520 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1510
iproute (#705169), requested 288 days ago
Description: networking and traffic control tools
Reverse Depends: aiccu apf-firewall arno-iptables-firewall
autopkgtest-xenlvm dsc-statistics-collector epoptes-client
fai-client ganeti guestfsd heartbeat (33 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 161097
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 682 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1181
isdnutils (#661110), requested 699 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Reverse Depends: asterisk-chan-capi capi4hylafax capiutils drdsl
ffgtk ibod ipppd isdnactivecards isdnlog isdnutils-xtools (5 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8567
jmol (#719330), requested 166 days ago
Description: Molecular Viewer
Reverse Depends: jalview jmol jmol-applet libbiojava3.0-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 345
jove (#470185), requested 2146 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1333
ldc (#730798), requested 55 days ago
Description: LLVM D Compiler
Installations reported by Popcon: 31
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1797 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb whiteboard
Installations reported by Popcon: 13369
libburn (#679249), requested 575 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Reverse Depends: cdrskin cdw k3b libbrasero-media3-1 libburn-dbg
libburn-dev libisoburn-dbg libisoburn-dev libisoburn1 simpleburn (2
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 78217
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1670 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bacula-common
bacula-console bacula-console-qt bacula-director-common
bacula-director-mysql bacula-director-pgsql bacula-director-sqlite3
(98 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 159357
libept (#678382), requested 581 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptitude debtags goplay libept-dev packagesearch
synaptic
Installations reported by Popcon: 107532
libisoburn (#679265), requested 575 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Reverse Depends: debian-cd libisoburn-dbg libisoburn-dev simpleburn
xorriso
Installations reported by Popcon: 1373
libisofs (#679254), requested 575 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Reverse Depends: libbrasero-media3-1 libisoburn-dbg libisoburn-dev
libisoburn1 libisofs-dbg libisofs-dev xfburn xorriso
Installations reported by Popcon: 77993
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2474 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Reverse Depends: browser-plugin-libreoffice docvert-libreoffice
gnome jodconverter jodreports-cli libaccessodf-java
libjodconverter-java libjodreports-java libreoffice libreoffice-base
(184 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 72340
libvorbisidec (#698378), requested 371 days ago
Description: Integer-only Ogg Vorbis decoder, AKA 'tremor'
Reverse Depends: libvorbisidec-dev mpd onscripter
Installations reported by Popcon: 9244
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1532 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Reverse Depends: abiword-plugin-grammar libgrammar4 liblink-grammar4
liblink-grammar4-dev liblink-grammar4-java link-grammar
Installations reported by Popcon: 8774
logcheck (#539944), requested 1633 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck logster
Installations reported by Popcon: 5054
maradns (#678460), requested 581 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Reverse Depends: maradns maradns-zoneserver
Installations reported by Popcon: 100
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 2059 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-extensions
mediawiki-extensions-collection mediawiki-extensions-geshi
mediawiki-extensions-graphviz mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth
mediawiki-extensions-openid
Installations reported by Popcon: 1014
mg (#734331), requested 17 days ago
Description: microscopic GNU Emacs-style editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 331
munin (#655889), requested 740 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Reverse Depends: mailping munin munin-async munin-libvirt-plugins
munin-node munin-plugins-core munin-plugins-extra munin-plugins-java
munin-plugins-openstack
Installations reported by Popcon: 9830
nas (#354174), requested 2891 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm alsaplayer-nas gbsplay isdnvboxclient
libaudio-dev libqtgui4 nas nas-bin speech-dispatcher timidity (1
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 93890
nn (#470187), requested 2146 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
openldap (#512360), requested 1829 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: 389-admin 389-ds-base 389-ds-base-dev
389-ds-base-libs 389-dsgw adcli alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
apache2-bin (205 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 159847
openmx (#706711), requested 265 days ago
Description: package for nano-scale material simulations
Installations reported by Popcon: 173
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2662 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: choreonoid choreonoid-plugins-base fgrun flightgear
libcnoid-dev libcnoid1 libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph80
libopenscenegraph99 libopenthreads-dev (21 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 961
openssl (#332498), requested 3031 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 3270-common 389-ds-base afflib-tools alpine
amanda-client amanda-common amanda-server amqp-tools
android-tools-adb anon-proxy (785 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 160673
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 581 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Reverse Depends: openvanilla-imgeneric-data-all
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-ja openvanilla-imgeneric-data-ko
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-th openvanilla-imgeneric-data-vi
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-zh-cn openvanilla-imgeneric-data-zh-hk
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-zh-tw ucimf-openvanilla
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
parmetis (#706710), requested 265 days ago (non-free)
Description: Parallel Graph Partitioning and Sparse Matrix Ordering
Tests
Reverse Depends: libparmetis-dev libsuitesparse-metis-3.1.0
libsuitesparse-metis-dbg libsuitesparse-metis-dev parmetis-test
Installations reported by Popcon: 157
php-horde-core (#686007), requested 514 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
Reverse Depends: php-horde php-horde-ansel php-horde-content
php-horde-dav php-horde-form php-horde-gollem php-horde-imp
php-horde-ingo php-horde-kronolith php-horde-mnemo (10 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 43
php5 (#664595), requested 675 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Reverse Depends: adminer ampache auth2db-frontend cacti cakephp
cakephp-instaweb cakephp-scripts collabtive d-push davical (428 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 59386
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1780 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: 8762
pyro (#530280), requested 1706 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-common
Installations reported by Popcon: 1612
rng-tools (#630920), requested 950 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 852
screen (#654116), requested 752 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Reverse Depends: apt-dater byobu cereal epoptes-client mdm
piuparts-slave podracer screen-dbg screenie
Installations reported by Popcon: 47197
software-center (#733233), requested 27 days ago
Description: Utility for browsing, installing, and removing software
Installations reported by Popcon: 13723
spamassassin (#676314), requested 596 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: claws-mail-spamassassin fuzzyocr sa-exim
sa-learn-cyrus spamass-milter spamassassin-heatu spampd
Installations reported by Popcon: 15811
xml-core (#660687), requested 703 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Reverse Depends: dia-common docbook-ebnf docbook-mathml
docbook-simple docbook-slides docbook-website docbook-xml
docbook-xsl docbook-xsl-ns docbook2x (11 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 148134
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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