Work-needing packages report for Apr 10, 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: 413 (new: 8)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 123 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 53 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
gphotofs (#523162), orphaned yesterday
Description: filesystem to mount digital cameras
Installations reported by Popcon: 769
hping2 (#522829), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Active Network Smashing Tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 750
hping3 (#522830), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Active Network Smashing Tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 806
jokosher (#523167), orphaned yesterday
Description: simple and easy to use audio multi-tracker
Installations reported by Popcon: 224
kpogre (#522620), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: a graphical administrator tool for PostgreSQL
Installations reported by Popcon: 114
libquantum (#523175), orphaned yesterday
Description: library for the simulation of a quantum computer
Reverse Depends: libquantum-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 14
pyntor (#523194), orphaned yesterday
Description: flexible and componentized presentation program
Installations reported by Popcon: 47
wmibam (#523191), orphaned yesterday
Description: dockapp to monitor the apm status using ibam
Installations reported by Popcon: 66
405 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:
acpi-support (#522683), offered 4 days ago
Description: glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy
suspend support
Reverse Depends: acpi-support brdesktop-common eeepc-acpi-scripts
Installations reported by Popcon: 11522
gringotts (#523247), offered today
Description: secure password and data storage manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 147
libgringotts (#523248), offered today
Reverse Depends: gringotts libgringotts-dev osmo
Installations reported by Popcon: 301
120 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 392 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 (158 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 43622
ara (#450876), requested 515 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 122
asymptote (#517342), requested 41 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 272
athcool (#278442), requested 1626 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 212
boinc (#511243), requested 91 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1597
cvs (#354176), requested 1141 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: 22775
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 530 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: 11198
dpkg (#282283), requested 1600 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: alien alsa-source apt-build apt-cross apt-src
backuppc biblatex-dw build-essential bzr-builddeb cacao-oj6-dbg (170
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 84677
drscheme (#402589), requested 850 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 323
elvis (#432298), requested 640 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: 410
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 488 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: 2194
flightgear (#487388), requested 292 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 981
gentoo (#422498), requested 704 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 264
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 364 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 libahven16 (46 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 807
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 224 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 133
grub (#248397), requested 1795 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-artwork-grub dfsbuild grub-choose-default
grub-doc replicator startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 77195
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 317 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 24503
imagemagick (#452314), requested 505 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ascd asymptote bins
calibre docbook2odf drgeo epix1 (49 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 27321
irssi-scripts (#522279), requested 7 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1123
ispell-et (#391105), requested 918 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 121
jove (#470185), requested 396 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 339
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 47 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
kvm (#479951), requested 337 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1746
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 47 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 15203
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 952 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 678
mantis (#471094), requested 390 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 100
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 309 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 445
mol (#436450), requested 611 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: 54
mutt (#512072), requested 83 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: 71220
mwavem (#313369), requested 1396 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 2
nas (#354174), requested 1141 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor atlantik audiooss
bibletime camstream celestia-kde compizconfig-backend-kconfig (230
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 48976
nn (#470187), requested 396 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
openldap (#512360), requested 79 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: adtool alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
apache2.2-common asterisk-h323 asterisk-oh323 audispd-plugins
autofs-ldap autofs5-ldap (178 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 47079
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 724 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-oootypes1.0-cil libuno-cli-ure1.0-cil
libuno-cli-uretypes1.0-cil mozilla-openoffice.org (97 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45189
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 912 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph55
libopenthreads-dev openscenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 159
openssl (#332498), requested 1281 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 (590 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 84061
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 30 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Reverse Depends: dtc-common gadmin-proftpd proftpd-dev
proftpd-mod-ldap proftpd-mod-mysql proftpd-mod-odbc
proftpd-mod-pgsql proftpd-mod-sqlite
Installations reported by Popcon: 7219
resolvconf (#477723), requested 350 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 9076
rt2400 (#411791), requested 779 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 130
rt2570 (#411790), requested 779 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 201
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 918 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 2020
sepolgen (#483641), requested 314 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 18914
sgml-data (#358521), requested 1113 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: 48800
smlnj (#428273), requested 669 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: 111
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 380 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 111
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1711 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: libstlport4.6-dev openoffice.org-base
openoffice.org-base-core openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core
openoffice.org-dev openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-evolution
openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-gnome (13 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16498
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 1005 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1414
torrus (#433223), requested 634 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
update-inetd (#472470), requested 381 days ago
Description: inetd.conf updater
Reverse Depends: amanda-common approx bootp cfingerd cups-bsd cvs
dictd ebhttpd ebnetd ebnetd-common (34 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 83562
wine (#479659), requested 338 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: 13978
wireshark (#520318), requested 22 days ago
Description: network traffic analyzer
Reverse Depends: kismet tshark wireshark
Installations reported by Popcon: 10516
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 431 days ago
Description: help for wxwidgets2.8 is appreciated
Reverse Depends: amule amule-daemon amule-utils amule-utils-gui
audacity bibus bitpim bittornado-gui boinc-manager crystalspace (43
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 11794
xscreensaver (#521783), requested 10 days ago
Description: Automatic screensaver for X (looking for
co-maintainers)
Reverse Depends: kscreensaver-xsavers lxde-core xscreensaver
xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl-extra
Installations reported by Popcon: 16930
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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