Work-needing packages report for Dec 18, 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: 658 (new: 14)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 131 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 54 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
bygfoot (#560848), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: soccer (football) manager game featuring the most
important European leagues
Installations reported by Popcon: 152
esmtp (#561302), orphaned yesterday
Description: User configurable relay-only MTA
Reverse Depends: esmtp-run
Installations reported by Popcon: 210
gambit (#561254), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Game theory analysis software and tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
gambit-doc (#561255), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: documentation for gambit
Installations reported by Popcon: 44
libfrontier-rpc-perl (#561129), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Perl module to implement RPC calls using XML requests
Reverse Depends: cipux-rpc-tools libcipux-rpc-perl xml-rpc-api2txt
Installations reported by Popcon: 195
mailreader (#561127), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Simple, but powerful WWW mail reader system
Installations reported by Popcon: 28
openrpg (#560847), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: client/server application to play RPG over the Internet
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
pgn-extract (#561252), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Portable Game Notation (PGN) extractor
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
sffview (#561202), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Structured Fax File (SFF) Viewer
Installations reported by Popcon: 66
sphinx2 (#560849), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: speech recognition utilities
Reverse Depends: libsphinx2-dev sphinx2-bin
Installations reported by Popcon: 273
tex-chess (#561256), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Chess fonts for TeX/LaTeX
Installations reported by Popcon: 107
tex-skak (#561257), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Chess fonts for TeX/LaTeX
Installations reported by Popcon: 64
xpaint (#560990), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: simple paint program for X
Installations reported by Popcon: 1239
xview (#560744), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: XView UI toolkit library and client programs
Reverse Depends: arb circlepack imaze-xview olwm workman xjove
xview-clients xview-examples xviewg-dev xvmount
Installations reported by Popcon: 439
644 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:
mediawiki-metavidwiki (#560772), offered 5 days ago
Description: A MediaWiki extension for associative temporal metadata
Installations reported by Popcon: 57
mediawiki-semediawiki (#560773), offered 5 days ago
Description: Semantic MediaWiki helps to organise and search
MediaWiki content
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-metavidwiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
xdaliclock (#561233), offered 2 days ago
Description: Melting digital clock
Installations reported by Popcon: 727
128 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:
apt-cross (#540341), requested 132 days ago
Description: retrieve, build and install libraries for
cross-compiling
Reverse Depends: apt-cross emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa
emdebian-rootfs emdebian-tools libemdebian-tools-perl
Installations reported by Popcon: 318
ara (#450876), requested 767 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 112
asymptote (#517342), requested 293 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1165
athcool (#278442), requested 1878 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 165
boinc (#511243), requested 343 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1654
cvs (#354176), requested 1393 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsps cvsservice (10
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 25201
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 782 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies debtree dlocate
haskell-devscripts libsbuild-perl linux-patch-debianlogo mlmmj
simple-cdd ubuntu-dev-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 13418
dietlibc (#544060), requested 111 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 237
dpkg (#282283), requested 1852 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adacontrol advi advi-examples alien alqalam
alsa-source am-utils-doc apt-build apt-cross apt-src (446 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 89561
elvis (#432298), requested 892 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: 423
emdebian-tools (#540333), requested 132 days ago
Description: emdebian crossbuilding tool set
Reverse Depends: emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa emdebian-rootfs
emdebian-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 179
flightgear (#487388), requested 544 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 665
fluxbox (#552328), requested 53 days ago
Description: Highly configurable and low resource X11 Window manager
Reverse Depends: bbmail
Installations reported by Popcon: 3127
gentoo (#422498), requested 956 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 225
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 616 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacontrol asis-programs gnat gnat-4.4
libasis2008 libasis2008-dev libaunit1-dev libaunit3 libaws-bin (31
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 128
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 476 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 184
grub2 (#248397), requested 2047 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: grub grub-coreboot grub-disk grub-efi
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-ia32 grub-ieee1275 grub-legacy
grub-linuxbios grub-pc (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 63916
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 22 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 651
hibernate (#558739), requested 17 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 17846
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 569 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 13873
imagemagick (#452314), requested 757 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ascd asymptote
autotrace bins calibre cuneiform docbook2odf (91 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 30443
jove (#470185), requested 648 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 453
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 299 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 43
koffice (#541691), requested 124 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 3118
kvm (#479951), requested 589 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: kvm-dbg qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 2050
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 57 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Reverse Depends: clustalx cmucl-clm ddd dx elk geomview gpsd-clients
grace grass gridengine-qmon (51 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16045
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 299 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15828
libcap2 (#534999), requested 172 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: apache2.2-bin asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bind9
bind9-host bind9utils dnsutils hercules libbind9-50 (61 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 64894
link-grammar (#556010), requested 34 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Reverse Depends: abiword-plugin-grammar liblink-grammar4
liblink-grammar4-dev liblink-grammar4-java link-grammar
Installations reported by Popcon: 7576
logcheck (#539944), requested 135 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4479
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1204 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 614
lzma (#553707), requested 46 days ago
Description: future of Debian squashfs-lzma
Reverse Depends: dpkg dpkg-dev dtrx libcomplearn-mod-lzmax
locales-all lzma-source vsag
Installations reported by Popcon: 68357
mdadm (#537993), requested 148 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 12078
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 561 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 478
mol (#436450), requested 863 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: 41
mtr (#527482), requested 224 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 36387
mutt (#512072), requested 335 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: 75049
mwavem (#313369), requested 1648 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
nas (#354174), requested 1393 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss basket
camstream celestia-kde creox djplay (162 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 46087
nn (#470187), requested 648 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 114
openldap (#512360), requested 331 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: adtool alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
apache2.2-bin asterisk asterisk-h323 asterisk-oh323 audispd-plugins
autofs-ldap (206 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 67845
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 976 days ago
Description: OpenOffice.org Office suite
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-common brdesktop-gnome broffice.org
cli-uno-bridge docvert-openoffice.org libjodconverter-java
libuno-cli-cppuhelper1.0-cil libuno-cli-oootypes1.0-cil
libuno-cli-ure1.0-cil libuno-cli-uretypes1.0-cil (90 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41996
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1164 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: flightgear libopenscenegraph-dev
libopenscenegraph56 libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 openscenegraph
osgcal simgear-dev simgear1.9.1
Installations reported by Popcon: 318
openssl (#332498), requested 1533 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 3270-common afbackup afbackup-client afflib-tools
aircrack-ng alpine amanda-client amanda-common amanda-server
anon-proxy (681 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 89109
phpwiki (#540061), requested 134 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 68
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1102 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 378
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 282 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: 5454
pyro (#530280), requested 208 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 124
quilt (#543541), requested 114 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Reverse Depends: audacious-plugins-dev batmand-gateway-source
broadcom-sta-source et131x-source gcc-4.4-source gpib-modules-source
gquilt mercurial-buildpackage mozilla-devscripts open-vm-source (2
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6501
resolvconf (#477723), requested 602 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 10166
sepolgen (#483641), requested 566 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 15190
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 632 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 120
wine (#479659), requested 590 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 (11 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13901
yasr (#474251), requested 622 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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