Work-needing packages report for Jan 30, 2009
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: 433 (new: 3)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 112 (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:
pas2html (#512829), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: tool to convert Pascal and Modula-2 sources to webpage
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
softbeep (#513329), orphaned yesterday
Description: System bell replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 127
thwab-lib (#513334), orphaned yesterday
Description: Electronic Encyclopedia System
Installations reported by Popcon: 14
430 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:
gmime2.2 (#513428), offered yesterday
Description: MIME library - development files
Reverse Depends: balsa beagle beagle-backend-evolution dbmail
dbmail-mysql dbmail-pgsql libgmime-2.0-2-dev libgmime2.2-cil
mail-notification maildir-utils (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 4938
111 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 322 days ago
Description: Co-maintainer wanted
Reverse Depends: ampache apache2 apache2-dbg apache2-mpm-event
apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-mpm-worker
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-suexec apache2-suexec-custom (153 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 40978
ara (#450876), requested 445 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 124
athcool (#278442), requested 1556 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 206
boinc (#511243), requested 21 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1485
cvs (#354176), requested 1071 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: 22173
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 460 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies dlocate haskell-devscripts
hg-buildpackage ia32-archive ia32-libs-tools mlmmj sbuild simple-cdd
Installations reported by Popcon: 9918
dpkg (#282283), requested 1531 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
(117 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 80505
drscheme (#402589), requested 780 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 327
elvis (#432298), requested 570 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: 396
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 418 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: 2173
flightgear (#487388), requested 222 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 972
gentoo (#422498), requested 634 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 260
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 294 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 (46 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 664
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 154 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 134
grub (#248397), requested 1725 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-artwork-grub dfsbuild grub-choose-default
grub-doc replicator startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 73618
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 248 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 33774
imagemagick (#452314), requested 435 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale ascd asymptote
bins cimg-dev docbook2odf drgeo (82 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 25453
ispell-et (#391105), requested 848 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 97
jove (#470185), requested 326 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 329
kvm (#479951), requested 267 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1481
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 882 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 698
mantis (#471094), requested 320 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 87
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 239 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 395
mol (#436450), requested 541 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: 57
mutt (#512072), requested 13 days ago
Description: text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and
threading
Reverse Depends: debreaper metche mutt-dbg mutt-patched muttprofile
Installations reported by Popcon: 67733
mwavem (#313369), requested 1326 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
nas (#354174), requested 1071 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor atlantik audiooss
bibletime camstream celestia-kde compizconfig-backend-kconfig (232
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 51108
nn (#470187), requested 326 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 117
openldap (#512360), requested 10 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: adtool alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
asterisk-h323 asterisk-oh323 audispd-plugins autofs-ldap
autofs5-ldap balsa (169 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 28839
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 654 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 (91 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 44791
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 842 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph7
libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 openscenegraph osgcal
Installations reported by Popcon: 173
openssl (#332498), requested 1211 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 (588 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 79800
resolvconf (#477723), requested 280 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 7856
rt2400 (#411791), requested 709 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 149
rt2570 (#411790), requested 709 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 231
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 848 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1768
sepolgen (#483641), requested 245 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 18062
sgml-data (#358521), requested 1044 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: 47759
smlnj (#428273), requested 599 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: 96
spamassassin (#469124), requested 332 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: 12527
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 310 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 105
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1641 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: 13648
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 935 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1351
torrus (#433223), requested 564 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 22
unicorn (#345547), requested 1124 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 64
update-inetd (#472470), requested 311 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: 79363
wine (#479659), requested 269 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: 12680
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 361 days ago
Description: help for wxwidgets2.8 is appreciated
Reverse Depends: amaya amule amule-daemon amule-utils
amule-utils-gui audacity bittornado-gui crystalspace drpython
esteidutil (36 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8039
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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