Work-needing packages report for Nov 7, 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: 489 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 118 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requested help for: 48 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
libfile-counterfile-perl (#504263), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Persistent counter class for Perl
Installations reported by Popcon: 59
liblog-loglite-perl (#504265), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: lightweight logging
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
487 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:
gputils (#504473), offered 2 days ago
Description: GNU PIC utilities
Reverse Depends: gputils
Installations reported by Popcon: 837
117 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 238 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: 40261
ara (#450876), requested 361 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 124
athcool (#278442), requested 1472 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 227
bash-completion (#472468), requested 227 days ago
Description: programmable completion for the bash shell
Installations reported by Popcon: 18378
cvs (#354176), requested 987 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: 22405
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 376 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: 9210
dpkg (#282283), requested 1447 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: 79745
drscheme (#402589), requested 696 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 357
elvis (#432298), requested 486 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: 385
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 334 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: 2192
flightgear (#487388), requested 138 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 942
gentoo (#422498), requested 550 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 277
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 210 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: 554
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 70 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 112
grub (#248397), requested 1641 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-artwork-grub dfsbuild grub-choose-default
grub-doc replicator startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 73119
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 164 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 37910
imagemagick (#452314), requested 351 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale ascd asymptote
bins cimg-dev docbook2odf drgeo (84 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 24729
ispell-et (#391105), requested 764 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 104
jove (#470185), requested 242 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 315
kvm (#479951), requested 183 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1285
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 798 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 701
mantis (#471094), requested 236 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 75
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 155 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 377
milter-greylist (#470188), requested 242 days ago
Description: GreyList milter for sendmail
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
mol (#436450), requested 457 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: 60
mwavem (#313369), requested 1242 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
nas (#354174), requested 987 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor apollon atlantik
audiooss bibletime camstream celestia-kde (240 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 51713
nn (#470187), requested 242 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 118
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 570 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 (90 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45503
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 758 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph7
libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 openscenegraph osgcal
Installations reported by Popcon: 170
openssl (#332498), requested 1127 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 (584 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 78996
request-tracker3.6 (#469353), requested 247 days ago
Description: Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system
Reverse Depends: request-tracker3.6 rt3.6-rtfm
Installations reported by Popcon: 245
resolvconf (#477723), requested 196 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 7196
rt2400 (#411791), requested 625 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 149
rt2570 (#411790), requested 625 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 225
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 764 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1559
sepolgen (#483641), requested 161 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 16238
sgml-data (#358521), requested 960 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: 48070
smlnj (#428273), requested 515 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: 93
spamassassin (#469124), requested 248 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: 12689
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 226 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 104
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1557 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: 12072
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 851 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1315
torrus (#433223), requested 480 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
unicorn (#345547), requested 1040 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 70
update-inetd (#472470), requested 227 days ago
Description: inetd.conf updater
Reverse Depends: amanda-common bootp cfingerd cups-bsd cvs ebhttpd
ebnetd ebnetd-common efingerd fam (35 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 78432
wine (#479659), requested 185 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: 12224
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 277 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
(29 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7201
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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