Work-needing packages report for Jan 22, 2010
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: 619 (new: 7)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 132 (new: 6)
Total number of packages requested help for: 55 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
fdutils (#565466), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Linux floppy utilities
Reverse Depends: bootcd ltp-disc-test
Installations reported by Popcon: 4048
fortunes-ru (#566149), orphaned today
Installations reported by Popcon: 105
kxstitch (#565753), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: cross-stitch pattern creator and editor for KDE
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
pam-passwdqc (#565649), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: replacement for the pam_cracklib module
Installations reported by Popcon: 338
polipo (#566150), orphaned today
Description: a small, caching web proxy
Installations reported by Popcon: 296
python-contract (#565754), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Programming by contract for python
Installations reported by Popcon: 64
webcam-server (#565413), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: a tool to share webcam streaming in www-browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 345
612 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:
duma (#565925), offered 2 days ago
Description: library to detect buffer overruns and under-runs in C
and C++ programs
Installations reported by Popcon: 74
google-gadgets (#566194), offered today
Description: Common files for QT and GTK+ versions of google-gadgets
Reverse Depends: google-gadgets-common google-gadgets-gst
google-gadgets-gtk google-gadgets-qt google-gadgets-xul
libggadget-1.0-dev libggadget-gtk-1.0-0 libggadget-gtk-1.0-0a
libggadget-gtk-1.0-dev libggadget-qt-1.0-0 (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 4061
ipsec-tools (#565362), offered 6 days ago
Description: IPsec tools for Linux
Reverse Depends: openswan racoon strongswan-ikev1 strongswan-ikev2
Installations reported by Popcon: 1496
openslp-dfsg (#565361), offered 6 days ago
Description: OpenSLP documentation
Reverse Depends: cups libslp-dev nis slapd slptool
Installations reported by Popcon: 52115
pam-passwdqc (#565649), offered 4 days ago
Description: replacement for the pam_cracklib module
Installations reported by Popcon: 338
ssed (#565360), offered 6 days ago
Description: The super sed stream editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
126 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 167 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: 315
ara (#450876), requested 802 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 116
asymptote (#517342), requested 328 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1167
athcool (#278442), requested 1913 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 166
boinc (#511243), requested 378 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1643
cvs (#354176), requested 1428 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: 25187
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 817 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies debtree dlocate
haskell-devscripts javahelper libsbuild-perl linux-patch-debianlogo
mlmmj simple-cdd (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13339
dietlibc (#544060), requested 146 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 237
dpkg (#282283), requested 1887 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: acct adacontrol advi advi-examples alien alqalam
alsa-source am-utils-doc apt-build apt-cross (467 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 89030
elvis (#432298), requested 927 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: 421
emdebian-tools (#540333), requested 167 days ago
Description: emdebian crossbuilding tool set
Reverse Depends: emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa emdebian-rootfs
emdebian-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 165
fbcat (#565156), requested 8 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
flightgear (#487388), requested 579 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 658
gentoo (#422498), requested 991 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 214
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 651 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacontrol asis-programs gnat gnat-4.4
gprbuild libahven1-dev libahven17.0 libasis2008 libasis2008-dev (45
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 174
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 511 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 207
grub2 (#248397), requested 2082 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: 64690
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 57 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 660
hibernate (#558739), requested 52 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16993
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 604 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 12922
imagemagick (#452314), requested 792 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ansel1 ascd asymptote
autotrace bins calibre cuneiform (91 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 30447
jove (#470185), requested 683 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 426
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 334 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
koffice (#541691), requested 159 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 3034
kvm (#479951), requested 624 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1899
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 92 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: 15742
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 334 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15767
libcap2 (#534999), requested 207 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 krb5-auth-dialog (61 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 65716
link-grammar (#556010), requested 69 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: 7883
logcheck (#539944), requested 170 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4483
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1239 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 612
lzma (#553707), requested 81 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: 69148
mdadm (#537993), requested 183 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 12256
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 596 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 478
mol (#436450), requested 898 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: 43
mtr (#527482), requested 259 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 34778
mutt (#512072), requested 370 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: 74630
mwavem (#313369), requested 1683 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
nas (#354174), requested 1428 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss basket
camstream celestia-kde creox djplay (159 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45362
nn (#470187), requested 683 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 118
openldap (#512360), requested 366 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 (216 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 68597
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 1011 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: 41323
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1199 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: flightgear libopenscenegraph-dev
libopenscenegraph56 libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 libossim1
openscenegraph osgcal ossim-core simgear-dev (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 339
openssl (#332498), requested 1568 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 (695 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 88584
phpwiki (#540061), requested 169 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 66
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1137 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 348
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 317 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: 5683
pyro (#530280), requested 243 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 116
quilt (#543541), requested 149 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 mozilla-devscripts open-vm-source quilt-el (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6576
resolvconf (#477723), requested 637 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 10080
sepolgen (#483641), requested 601 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 14656
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 667 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 120
usplash (#563195), requested 21 days ago
Description: Userspace bootsplash utility
Reverse Depends: education-thin-client libusplash-dev
tuxonice-userui usplash
Installations reported by Popcon: 1164
wine (#479659), requested 625 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Reverse Depends: dssi-vst libwine-alsa libwine-capi libwine-cms
libwine-dbg libwine-dev libwine-esd libwine-gl libwine-gphoto2
libwine-jack (12 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13781
yasr (#474251), requested 657 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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