Work-needing packages report for Sep 19, 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: 460 (new: 15)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 122 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 49 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
bpalogin (#499118), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: login client for the Telstra Bigpond Cable Network
(Australia)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
ftm (#499253), orphaned yesterday
Description: Frogfoot Networks Traffic Monitoring Utility
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
hexcat (#499254), orphaned yesterday
Description: HEX dumping utility
Installations reported by Popcon: 192
ivman (#499249), orphaned yesterday
Description: daemon to auto-mount and manage media devices
Installations reported by Popcon: 272
ixbiff (#499255), orphaned yesterday
Description: notify user when mail arrives by blinking keyboard LEDs
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
juice (#499256), orphaned yesterday
Description: playlist editor / player frontend
Installations reported by Popcon: 116
libabz (#499257), orphaned yesterday
Description: Miscellaneous useful routines
Reverse Depends: ftm libabz0-dev libber0 libber0-dev potion
Installations reported by Popcon: 187
libber (#499258), orphaned yesterday
Description: A Basic Encoding Rules (ITU X.690) implementation
Reverse Depends: libber0-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 70
libconfig (#499259), orphaned yesterday
Description: Configuration file parser library
Reverse Depends: libconfig0-dev xbattbar-acpi
Installations reported by Popcon: 104
libdebug (#499260), orphaned yesterday
Description: Memory leak detection system and logging library
Reverse Depends: ftm libabz0 libabz0-dev libber0 libber0-dev
libconfig0 libconfig0-dev libdebug0-dev potion xbattbar-acpi
Installations reported by Popcon: 324
nedit (#499316), orphaned yesterday
Description: A powerful, customizable, Motif based text editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1510
pcopy (#499117), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: multithreaded (raw) disk copying program
Installations reported by Popcon: 126
pentanet (#499261), orphaned yesterday
Description: Utilities for Pent@NET DVB Data receiving cards
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
potion (#499262), orphaned yesterday
Description: IP Flow Monitor
Installations reported by Popcon: 99
tint (#499263), orphaned yesterday
Description: TINT Is Not Tetris(tm) ...at least the name isn't
Installations reported by Popcon: 152
445 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 122 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:
apache2 (#470795), requested 189 days ago
Description: Co-maintainer wanted
Reverse Depends: achims-guestbook ampache apache2 apache2-dbg
apache2-mpm-event apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-prefork
apache2-mpm-worker apache2-prefork-dev apache2-suexec (154 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 38918
ara (#450876), requested 312 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 121
athcool (#278442), requested 1423 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 241
bash-completion (#472468), requested 178 days ago
Description: programmable completion for the bash shell
Installations reported by Popcon: 15758
cvs (#354176), requested 938 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta cvsps (12 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 22029
darcs (#486192), requested 96 days ago
Description: an advanced revision control system
Reverse Depends: arch2darcs darcs-buildpackage darcs-load-dirs
darcs-monitor darcs-server darcsweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1366
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 327 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies dlocate feta
haskell-devscripts hg-buildpackage ia32-archive ia32-libs-tools
mlmmj sbuild (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8743
dpkg (#282283), requested 1398 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 cacao-oj6-dbg cacao-oj6-jdk
(118 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 76926
drscheme (#402589), requested 647 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 342
elvis (#432298), requested 437 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: 389
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 285 days ago (non-free)
Description: non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver
Reverse Depends: fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-atieventsd fglrx-control
fglrx-driver fglrx-glx fglrx-glx-ia32 fglrx-kernel-src
Installations reported by Popcon: 2142
flightgear (#487388), requested 89 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 942
gentoo (#422498), requested 501 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 273
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 161 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacontrol asis-programs ghdl gnade-bin
gnat gnat-4.3 gnat-gps libadasockets-dev libahven13 (45 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 351
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 21 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 123
grub (#248397), requested 1592 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-artwork-grub dfsbuild grub-choose-default
grub-doc replicator startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 70607
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 114 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 37567
imagemagick (#452314), requested 302 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale ascd asymptote
bins cimg-dev docbook2odf drgeo (83 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 23946
ispell-et (#391105), requested 715 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 102
jove (#470185), requested 193 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 316
kvm (#479951), requested 134 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1189
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 749 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 705
mantis (#471094), requested 187 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 71
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 106 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 352
milter-greylist (#470188), requested 193 days ago
Description: GreyList milter for sendmail
Installations reported by Popcon: 34
mol (#436450), requested 408 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: 63
mwavem (#313369), requested 1193 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
nas (#354174), requested 938 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor apollon atlantik
audiooss bibletime camstream celestia-kde (245 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 50460
nn (#470187), requested 193 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 127
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 521 days ago
Description: OpenOffice.org Office suite
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-common brdesktop-gnome broffice.org
cli-uno-bridge docvert-openoffice.org libuno-cli-cppuhelper1.0-cil
libuno-cli-types1.1-cil libuno-cli-ure1.0-cil mozilla-openoffice.org
openoffice.org (89 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 44300
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 709 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph7
libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 openscenegraph osgcal
Installations reported by Popcon: 169
openssl (#332498), requested 1078 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 (570 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 76026
request-tracker3.6 (#469353), requested 198 days ago
Description: Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system
Reverse Depends: request-tracker3.6 rt3.6-rtfm
Installations reported by Popcon: 233
resolvconf (#477723), requested 147 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 6642
rt2400 (#411791), requested 576 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 128
rt2570 (#411790), requested 576 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 219
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 715 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1484
sepolgen (#483641), requested 112 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 13577
sgml-data (#358521), requested 911 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: 46800
smlnj (#428273), requested 466 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: 88
spamassassin (#469124), requested 199 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
Installations reported by Popcon: 12543
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 177 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1508 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: cli-uno-bridge libstlport4.6-dev
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: 10816
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 802 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1265
torrus (#433223), requested 431 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
unicorn (#345547), requested 991 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 62
update-inetd (#472470), requested 178 days ago
Description: inetd.conf updater
Reverse Depends: amanda-common bootp cups-bsd cvs ebhttpd ebnetd
ebnetd-common efingerd fam fingerd (26 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 75456
wine (#479659), requested 136 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Reverse Depends: libwine-alsa libwine-capi libwine-cms libwine-dbg
libwine-dev libwine-esd libwine-gl libwine-gphoto2 libwine-jack
libwine-ldap (10 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 11763
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 228 days ago
Description: help for wxwidgets2.8 is appreciated
Reverse Depends: amaya amule amule-daemon amule-utils
amule-utils-gui bittornado-gui drpython esteidutil extrema filezilla
(18 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7026
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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