Work-needing packages report for Apr 24, 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: 407 (new: 8)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 120 (new: 2)
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:
aspell-tl (#524934), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: The Tagalog dictionary for GNU Aspell
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
bogofilter (#524743), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: a fast Bayesian spam filter (dummy package)
Reverse Depends: bogofilter bogofilter-bdb bogofilter-qdbm
bogofilter-sqlite bogofilter-tokyocabinet claws-mail-bogofilter
Installations reported by Popcon: 4901
emcast (#525295), orphaned today
Description: multicast toolkit
Installations reported by Popcon: 78
fte (#525314), orphaned today
Description: Text editor for programmers - base package
Reverse Depends: fte fte-console fte-docs fte-terminal fte-xwindow
Installations reported by Popcon: 244
ispell-tl (#524935), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: A Tagalog dictionary for Ispell
Installations reported by Popcon: 12
mbrowse (#525297), orphaned today
Description: a SNMP MIB browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 317
mktemp (#524755), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: tool for creating temporary files
Installations reported by Popcon: 84509
pmock (#524936), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Python module for unit testing using mock objects
Installations reported by Popcon: 43
399 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:
pycallgraph (#524937), offered 3 days ago
Description: Python library that creates call graphs for Python
programs
Installations reported by Popcon: 43
python-glpk (#524938), offered 3 days ago
Description: Python bindings to the GNU Linear Programming Kit
Installations reported by Popcon: 41
118 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 406 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 (159 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 43998
ara (#450876), requested 529 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 117
asymptote (#517342), requested 55 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 385
athcool (#278442), requested 1640 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 207
boinc (#511243), requested 105 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1592
cvs (#354176), requested 1155 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: 22637
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 544 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: 11471
dpkg (#282283), requested 1614 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 (217
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 85205
drscheme (#402589), requested 864 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 311
elvis (#432298), requested 654 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 502 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: 2098
flightgear (#487388), requested 306 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 963
gentoo (#422498), requested 718 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 257
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 378 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: 833
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 238 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 148
grub (#248397), requested 1809 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-artwork-grub dfsbuild grub-choose-default
grub-doc replicator startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 77610
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 331 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 23464
imagemagick (#452314), requested 519 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ascd asymptote bins
calibre docbook2odf drgeo epix1 (58 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 27434
irssi-scripts (#522279), requested 21 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1127
ispell-et (#391105), requested 932 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 105
jove (#470185), requested 410 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 322
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 61 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 42
kvm (#479951), requested 351 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1798
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 61 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 15367
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 966 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 667
mantis (#471094), requested 404 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 107
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 323 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 447
mol (#436450), requested 625 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: 52
mutt (#512072), requested 97 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: 71634
mwavem (#313369), requested 1410 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
nas (#354174), requested 1155 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss bibletime
camstream celestia-kde compizconfig-backend-kconfig creox (181 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 48827
nn (#470187), requested 410 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 107
openldap (#512360), requested 93 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 (179 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 49074
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 738 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 (96 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45124
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 926 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph55
libopenthreads-dev openscenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 161
openssl (#332498), requested 1295 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 (595 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 84575
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 44 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: 3335
resolvconf (#477723), requested 364 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 9205
rt2400 (#411791), requested 793 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 125
rt2570 (#411790), requested 793 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 198
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 932 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 2027
sepolgen (#483641), requested 328 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 18752
sgml-data (#358521), requested 1127 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: 48867
smlnj (#428273), requested 683 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: 117
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 394 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 113
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1725 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: 22087
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 1019 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1445
torrus (#433223), requested 648 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 19
wine (#479659), requested 352 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: 14176
wireshark (#520318), requested 36 days ago
Description: network traffic analyzer
Reverse Depends: kismet tshark wireshark
Installations reported by Popcon: 10606
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 445 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 (46
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12436
xscreensaver (#521783), requested 24 days ago
Description: Automatic screensaver for X (looking for
co-maintainers)
Reverse Depends: kscreensaver-xsavers xscreensaver
xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl-extra
Installations reported by Popcon: 16955
yasr (#474251), requested 384 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 63
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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