Work-needing packages report for May 28, 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: 630 (new: 8)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 123 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 65 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
bbdate (#583241), orphaned yesterday
Description: Date tool for the blackbox window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 83
fbpanel (#583245), orphaned yesterday
Description: A lightweight X11 desktop panel
Installations reported by Popcon: 356
glipper (#583244), orphaned yesterday
Description: Clipboard manager for the GNOME panel
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-gnome
Installations reported by Popcon: 396
myspell-sv (#583250), orphaned yesterday
Description: Swedish (SE) dictionary for myspell
Installations reported by Popcon: 554
obmenu (#583246), orphaned yesterday
Description: A graphical menu editor for openbox
Installations reported by Popcon: 412
odyssey (#583249), orphaned yesterday
Description: PIC microcontroller programming application
Installations reported by Popcon: 72
usermode (#583242), orphaned yesterday
Description: Graphical tools for certain user account management
tasks
Reverse Depends: mock
Installations reported by Popcon: 349
xmame (#583240), orphaned yesterday (non-free)
Description: Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
Reverse Depends: xmame-common xmame-gl xmame-sdl xmame-svga xmame-x
xmess-sdl xmess-x
Installations reported by Popcon: 783
622 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:
fusecompress (#583207), offered yesterday
Description: transparent filesystem compression using FUSE
Reverse Depends: fusecompress-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 99
php-versioncontrol-svn (#583117), offered 2 days ago
Description: Wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line
client
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (#583501), offered today
Description: display driver for VIA Unichrome video chipsets
Reverse Depends: xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-via
Installations reported by Popcon: 34996
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:
apt-cross (#540341), requested 293 days ago
Description: retrieve, build and install libraries for
cross-compiling
Reverse Depends: apt-cross emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa
emdebian-tools libemdebian-tools-perl
Installations reported by Popcon: 350
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 115 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache
Installations reported by Popcon: 11757
ara (#450876), requested 928 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 116
asymptote (#517342), requested 454 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1295
athcool (#278442), requested 2039 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 144
boinc (#511243), requested 504 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1632
cvs (#354176), requested 1554 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsps cvsservice (11
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 25079
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 943 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
simple-cdd ubuntu-dev-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 13410
debtags (#567954), requested 115 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: debtags-edit goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2661
dietlibc (#544060), requested 272 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 230
doc-central (#566364), requested 124 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 280
dpkg (#282283), requested 2013 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: a2ps acct adacontrol advi advi-examples alien
alqalam alsa-source am-utils-doc apt-build (512 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91705
elvis (#432298), requested 1053 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: 393
emdebian-tools (#540333), requested 293 days ago
Description: emdebian crossbuilding tool set
Reverse Depends: emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa emdebian-tools
mlton-target-alpha-linux-gnu mlton-target-arm-linux-gnueabi
mlton-target-hppa-linux-gnu mlton-target-i486-linux-gnu
mlton-target-ia64-linux-gnu mlton-target-mips-linux-gnu
mlton-target-mipsel-linux-gnu (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 179
fbcat (#565156), requested 134 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Reverse Depends: fbgrab
Installations reported by Popcon: 81
flightgear (#487388), requested 705 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 655
flite (#576327), requested 54 days ago
Description: A small run-time speech synthesis engine
Reverse Depends: asterisk-flite brltty-flite eflite flite flite1-dev
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad speech-dispatcher
Installations reported by Popcon: 7858
gentoo (#422498), requested 1117 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 229
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 777 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacontrol asis-programs ghdl gnat
gnat-4.4 gnat-gps gprbuild libadasockets-dev libahven1-dev (69 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 521
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 637 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 239
grub2 (#248397), requested 2208 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 (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 71468
gwibber (#573822), requested 74 days ago
Description: microblogging client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 456
hadoop (#579787), requested 27 days ago
Description: software platform for processing vast amounts of data
Reverse Depends: hadoop-bin hadoop-daemons-common hadoop-datanoded
hadoop-jobtrackerd hadoop-namenoded hadoop-secondarynamenoded
hadoop-tasktrackerd hbase-daemons-common libhadoop-index-java
libhadoop-java-doc (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 17
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 183 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 723
hibernate (#558739), requested 178 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 14822
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 730 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 10581
imagemagick (#452314), requested 918 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ansel1 ascd asymptote
bins calibre calibre-bin docbook2odf (96 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 31110
jove (#470185), requested 809 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 448
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 460 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 46
koffice (#541691), requested 285 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 2680
kvm (#479951), requested 750 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1801
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 218 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Reverse Depends: clustalx cmucl-clm ddd dx elk geomview grace grass
gridengine-qmon hotswap-gui (51 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15300
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 460 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15851
libcap2 (#534999), requested 333 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 libbind9-60 (65 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 72394
libopenraw (#530244), requested 369 days ago
Description: free implementation for RAW decoding
Reverse Depends: libgegl-0.0-0 libopenraw-dev libopenraw1-dbg
libopenrawgnome-dev libopenrawgnome1 libopenrawgnome1-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 10498
link-grammar (#556010), requested 195 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: 8910
logcheck (#539944), requested 296 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4494
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1365 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 568
lzma (#553707), requested 207 days ago
Description: future of Debian squashfs-lzma
Reverse Depends: dtrx libcomplearn-mod-lzmax locales-all lzma-source
vsag
Installations reported by Popcon: 75389
mdadm (#537993), requested 309 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 12876
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 722 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-extensions
mediawiki-extensions-confirmedit mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor
mediawiki-extensions-geshi mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth
mediawiki-extensions-openid mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 483
mol (#436450), requested 1024 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: 36
monotone (#574609), requested 69 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Reverse Depends: monotone-doc monotone-server qct
Installations reported by Popcon: 321
mtr (#527482), requested 385 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 30173
mutt (#512072), requested 496 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: 76726
mwavem (#313369), requested 1809 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
nas (#354174), requested 1554 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas audiooss basket camstream
celestia-kde creox djplay djview3 (111 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 44486
nn (#470187), requested 809 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 106
openbox (#566900), requested 122 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Reverse Depends: libobrender21 lxde-core obconf openbox openbox-dev
openbox-themes
Installations reported by Popcon: 3467
openldap (#512360), requested 492 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: adtool alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
apache2.2-bin asterisk asterisk-h323 audispd-plugins autofs-ldap
autofs5-ldap (217 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 75391
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 1137 days ago
Description: OpenOffice.org Office suite
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-common brdesktop-gnome broffice.org
cli-uno-bridge docvert-openoffice.org jabref-plugin-oo
libjodconverter-java libuno-cli-cppuhelper1.0-cil
libuno-cli-oootypes1.0-cil libuno-cli-ure1.0-cil (107 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 40602
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1325 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: flightgear libopenscenegraph-dev
libopenscenegraph56 libopenscenegraph65 libopenthreads-dev libosgal1
libossim1 openscenegraph osgcal ossim-core (2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 188
openssl (#332498), requested 1694 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 3270-common afbackup afbackup-client afflib-tools
aimage aircrack-ng alpine anon-proxy aolserver4-nsimap
aolserver4-nsopenssl (681 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91343
phpwiki (#540061), requested 295 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 65
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1263 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 368
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 443 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: 6436
pyro (#530280), requested 369 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 334
quilt (#543541), requested 275 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Reverse Depends: batmand-gateway-source broadcom-sta-source
et131x-source gcc-4.4-source gpib-modules-source gquilt
libfusioninventory-agent-task-netdiscovery-perl
libfusioninventory-agent-task-snmpquery-perl mozilla-devscripts
nvidia-kernel-source (2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7980
resolvconf (#477723), requested 763 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 9174
sepolgen (#483641), requested 727 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 13427
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 793 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 114
usplash (#563195), requested 147 days ago
Description: Userspace bootsplash utility
Reverse Depends: education-thin-client libusplash-dev
tuxonice-userui usplash
Installations reported by Popcon: 1154
wine (#479659), requested 751 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 (13 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13480
yasr (#474251), requested 783 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
zookeeper (#579791), requested 27 days ago
Description: Information management inside a cluster. Part of the
hadoop family.
Reverse Depends: libhbase-java libzkclient-java libzookeeper-dev
libzookeeper-java-doc python-zookeeper zookeeper zookeeper-bin
zookeeperd
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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