Work-needing packages report for Apr 18, 2008
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: 429 (new: 8)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 100 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requested help for: 43 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
4digits (#476133), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: A guess-the-number game, aka Bulls and Cows
Installations reported by Popcon: 63
linux-ftpd-ssl (#476132), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: FTP server with SSL encryption support
Installations reported by Popcon: 181
lockvc (#475781), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: screensaver to lock your Linux console(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 174
netkit-ftp-ssl (#476131), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: FTP client with SSL encryption support
Installations reported by Popcon: 530
selinux-basics (#476192), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: SELinux basic support
Installations reported by Popcon: 369
xfonts-wqy (#476130), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: WenQuanYi Bitmap Song CJK font
Installations reported by Popcon: 2050
xslide (#476426), orphaned yesterday
Description: XSL editing mode for Emacs
Installations reported by Popcon: 76
xsnow (#476129), orphaned 3 days ago (non-free)
Description: Bring Christmas to your desktop
Installations reported by Popcon: 574
421 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:
xplanet (#476179), offered 3 days ago
Description: render images of the earth
Reverse Depends: junior-toys
Installations reported by Popcon: 1457
99 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:
apache2 (#470795), requested 35 days ago
Description: Co-maintainer wanted
Reverse Depends: adzapper ampache apache2 apache2-dbg
apache2-mpm-event apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-perchild
apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-mpm-worker apache2-prefork-dev (148 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 38124
apt-build (#365427), requested 719 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1043
ara (#450876), requested 158 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 123
athcool (#278442), requested 1269 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 258
bash-completion (#472468), requested 24 days ago
Description: programmable completion for the bash shell
Installations reported by Popcon: 3581
cfs (#458061), requested 111 days ago
Description: Cryptographic Filesystem
Installations reported by Popcon: 114
cvs (#354176), requested 784 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta cvsps (13 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 23639
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 173 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies dlocate feta
haskell-devscripts hg-buildpackage mlmmj sbuild simple-cdd
Installations reported by Popcon: 6790
dpkg (#282283), requested 1244 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: alien alsa-source apt-build apt-cross apt-src
backuppc build-essential bzr-builddeb clamsmtp crosshurd (101 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 78560
drscheme (#402589), requested 493 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 402
elvis (#432298), requested 283 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: 300
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 131 days ago (non-free)
Description: non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver
Reverse Depends: fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-control fglrx-driver fglrx-glx
fglrx-glx-ia32
Installations reported by Popcon: 2398
gentoo (#422498), requested 347 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 288
gnat-4.1 (#475369), requested 7 days ago
Description: help needed with bug triaging
Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacontrol asis-programs gnade-bin
gnat-4.1 gnat-gps libadasockets-dev libasis-dev libasis2005
libaunit-dev (39 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 910
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 7 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: gnat gnat-4.3 gnat-glade libgarlic-dev libgnat-4.3
libgnat-4.3-dbg libgnatprj-dev libgnatprj4.3 libgnatprj4.3-dbg
libgnatprj4.3-dev (6 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 73
grub (#248397), requested 1438 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-doc replicator startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 72337
imagemagick (#452314), requested 148 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale ascd asymptote
bins cimg-dev curator dblatex (80 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 24192
ispell-et (#391105), requested 561 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 60
jove (#470185), requested 39 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 158
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 595 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 764
mantis (#471094), requested 33 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 61
milter-greylist (#470188), requested 39 days ago
Description: GreyList milter for sendmail
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
mol (#436450), requested 254 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: 74
mwavem (#313369), requested 1039 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
nas (#354174), requested 784 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amarok amor apollon ark
atlantik attal audiooss (303 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 54653
nn (#470187), requested 39 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 119
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 367 days ago
Description: OpenOffice.org Office suite
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-common brdesktop-gnome broffice.org
dmaths libuno-cil mozilla-openoffice.org openoffice.org
openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common (82
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 48785
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 555 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph6
libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 openscenegraph osgcal
Installations reported by Popcon: 192
openssl (#332498), requested 924 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 3270-common afbackup afbackup-client aircrack-ng
alpine anon-proxy aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-threaded-dev (555 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 77395
poppler (#423334), requested 342 days ago
Description: PDF rendering library and utilities
Reverse Depends: abiword-plugins claws-mail-pdf-viewer cupsys
epdfview evince evince-gtk gambas2-gb-pdf gimp
kdegraphics-kfile-plugins keyjnote (21 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 43685
request-tracker3.6 (#469353), requested 44 days ago
Description: Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system
Reverse Depends: request-tracker3.6 rt3.6-rtfm
Installations reported by Popcon: 208
rt2400 (#411791), requested 422 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 168
rt2570 (#411790), requested 422 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 265
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 561 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1493
sgml-data (#358521), requested 757 days ago
Description: common SGML and XML data
Reverse Depends: debiandoc-sgml debiandoc2dbxml docbook
docbook-simple docbook-xml epiphany-extensions linuxdoc-tools psgml
stardict-common w3c-dtd-xhtml (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 51230
smlnj (#428273), requested 312 days ago
Description: Standard ML of New Jersey interactive compiler
Reverse Depends: libckit-smlnj libcml-smlnj libcmlutil-smlnj
libexene-smlnj libmlnlffi-smlnj libmlrisctools-smlnj
libpgraphutil-smlnj libsmlnj-smlnj ml-burg ml-lex (5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 94
spamassassin (#469124), requested 45 days ago
Description: Perl-based spam filter using text analysis
Reverse Depends: claws-mail-spamassassin dtc-common fuzzyocr
mailscanner sa-exim sa-learn-cyrus spamass-milter spampd
sylpheed-claws-spamassassin
Installations reported by Popcon: 13095
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1354 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: libstlport4.6-dev libuno-cil mozilla-openoffice.org
openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-base-core openoffice.org-calc
openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-dev openoffice.org-draw
openoffice.org-evolution (14 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2265
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 648 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1273
torrus (#433223), requested 277 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
unicorn (#345547), requested 837 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 78
update-inetd (#472470), requested 24 days ago
Description: inetd.conf updater
Reverse Depends: amanda-common bootp cupsys-bsd cvs ebhttpd ebnetd
ebnetd-common efingerd fam fingerd (28 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 76550
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 74 days ago
Description: help for wxwidgets2.8 is appreciated
Installations reported by Popcon: 7417
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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