Work-needing packages report for Dec 16, 2011
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: 393 (new: 6)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 141 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 61 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
ddns3-client (#652029), orphaned yesterday
Description: Issues dynamic DNS v3 requests
Installations reported by Popcon: 43
magicfilter (#652289), orphaned today
Description: automatic printer filter
Installations reported by Popcon: 475
mirror (#652125), orphaned yesterday
Description: keeps FTP archives up-to-date
Installations reported by Popcon: 195
tth (#652131), orphaned today
Description: TeX/LaTeX to HTML converter
Installations reported by Popcon: 181
weathermap4rrd (#651929), orphaned 2 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
zvbi (#652225), orphaned today
Description: Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) utilities
Reverse Depends: alevtd libzvbi-dev libzvbi0 scantv vlc-plugin-zvbi
xawtv zapping zvbi
Installations reported by Popcon: 3347
387 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.
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No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 141 packages
are awaiting adoption. 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 (#646208), requested 54 days ago
Description: Apache HTTP Server
Reverse Depends: aegis-web apache2 apache2-dbg apache2-mpm-event
apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-mpm-worker
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-suexec apache2-suexec-custom (181 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 60366
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 682 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 49164
asymptote (#517342), requested 1021 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 2917
athcool (#278442), requested 2606 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 99
balsa (#642906), requested 81 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg debreaper
Installations reported by Popcon: 271
bastille (#592137), requested 495 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 278
boinc (#511243), requested 1071 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc boinc-amd-opencl boinc-app-milkyway
boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg boinc-nvidia-cuda
Installations reported by Popcon: 1864
cardstories (#624100), requested 234 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 564 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromium chromium-browser chromium-browser-dbg
chromium-browser-inspector chromium-browser-l10n chromium-dbg
chromium-l10n gecko-mediaplayer mozplugger
Installations reported by Popcon: 9490
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 421 days ago
Description: configures encrypted block devices
Reverse Depends: cryptsetup cryptsetup-udeb libcryptsetup-dev
libguestfs0 libpam-mount ltsp-client mandos-client partman-crypto-dm
rescue-mode systemd
Installations reported by Popcon: 7186
cvs (#354176), requested 2121 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl cvs2html
cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsps cvsservice cvssuck (8 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 18046
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 1510 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
postgresql-server-dev-all simple-cdd (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 14737
debtags (#567954), requested 682 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2611
doc-central (#566364), requested 691 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 223
dpkg (#282283), requested 2580 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: a2ps acct ace-gperf acl2-doc
ada-reference-manual-info adacontrol advi advi-examples alien
alqalam (673 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 118938
elvis (#432298), requested 1620 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: 388
fbcat (#565156), requested 701 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 141
flightgear (#487388), requested 1272 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 790
flite (#576327), requested 621 days ago
Description: A small run-time speech synthesis engine
Reverse Depends: asterisk-flite brltty-flite eflite flite flite1-dev
gnustep-gui-runtime gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad pd-flite
speech-dispatcher
Installations reported by Popcon: 45658
freeipmi (#628062), requested 203 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Reverse Depends: freeipmi-bmc-watchdog freeipmi-ipmidetect
freeipmi-tools libfreeipmi-dev libfreeipmi10 libipmiconsole-dev
libipmiconsole2 libipmidetect-dev libipmidetect0
libipmimonitoring-dev (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 753
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1339 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Reverse Depends: adabrowse ghdl gnat-4.4 gnat-gps libalog0.3-base
libalog0.3-full libalog1-base-dev libalog1-full-dev
libapq-postgresql1-dev libapq-postgresql3.0 (41 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1342
gnat-gps (#640532), requested 101 days ago
Description: Build gnatcoll from the sources of GPS
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 386
grub2 (#248397), requested 2775 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: grml-rescueboot grml2usb grub grub-coreboot
grub-coreboot-bin grub-disk grub-efi grub-efi-amd64
grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-ia32 (15 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 107431
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 750 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1065
hibernate (#651194), requested 9 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 7532
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1297 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 4802
jove (#470185), requested 1376 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 958
kvm (#479951), requested 1317 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: nova-compute-kvm qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 2583
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 785 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Reverse Depends: alliance cmucl-clm ddd dx elk geomview grace grass
gridengine-qmon hotswap-gui (48 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16475
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1027 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 19148
libcap2 (#534999), requested 900 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: apache2.2-bin asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bind9
bind9-host bind9utils diod dnsutils gnome-keyring (82 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 109400
libnss-db (#624768), requested 228 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2795
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1704 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Reverse Depends: docvert-libreoffice gnome jabref-plugin-oo
jodreports-cli libjodconverter-java libjodreports-java libreoffice
libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc (240 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41840
link-grammar (#556010), requested 762 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: 12721
logcheck (#539944), requested 863 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 5364
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1932 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 341
mdadm (#537993), requested 876 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 16088
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1289 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-extensions
mediawiki-extensions-collection mediawiki-extensions-confirmedit
mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor mediawiki-extensions-geshi
mediawiki-extensions-graphviz mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth
mediawiki-extensions-openid mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 442
monotone (#574609), requested 636 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Reverse Depends: monotone-doc monotone-extras monotone-server qct
Installations reported by Popcon: 328
movabletype-opensource (#572484), requested 651 days ago
Description: Movable Type and OpenMelody packaging
Installations reported by Popcon: 37
mtr (#527482), requested 952 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 19277
nas (#354174), requested 2121 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas djplay gbsplay
isdnvboxclient libaudio-dev libgnuradio-qtgui0 libqt3-mt
libqt3-mt-dev (17 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 54978
nn (#470187), requested 1376 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 107
openbox (#566900), requested 689 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: 5214
openldap (#512360), requested 1059 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: adtool alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
apache2.2-bin asterisk-modules audispd-plugins autofs-ldap
autofs5-ldap balsa (206 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 111288
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1892 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: fgrun flightgear libopenscenegraph-dev
libopenscenegraph80 libopenthreads-dev libopenwalnut1
libopenwalnut1-dev libosgearth-dev libosgearth1 libossim1 (9 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 498
openssl (#332498), requested 2261 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 3270-common afflib-tools alpine amanda-client
amanda-common amanda-server anon-proxy aolserver4-nsopenssl
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-threaded-dev (689 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 113620
otrs2 (#588363), requested 526 days ago
Description: Open Ticket Request System
Reverse Depends: otrs
Installations reported by Popcon: 172
piuparts (#584125), requested 562 days ago
Description: piuparts.d.o is maintainance hungry, please help
Reverse Depends: elida
Installations reported by Popcon: 358
piwik (#448532), requested 1508 days ago
Description: real time web analytics software program
ppp (#589632), requested 514 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Reverse Depends: gpppon ipppd kppp network-manager-pptp portslave
pppconfig pppdcapiplugin pppoe pppoeconf pptp-linux (8 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 48120
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1010 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Reverse Depends: gadmin-proftpd proftpd-dev proftpd-mod-autohost
proftpd-mod-case proftpd-mod-dnsbl proftpd-mod-fsync
proftpd-mod-geoip proftpd-mod-ldap proftpd-mod-msg proftpd-mod-mysql
(5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7931
pyro (#530280), requested 936 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 927
quilt (#543541), requested 842 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Reverse Depends: broadcom-sta-source gcc-4.4-source gcc-4.5-source
gcc-4.6-source gpib-modules-source gquilt meego-packaging-tools
mozilla-devscripts nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source
nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-source (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12039
rng-tools (#630920), requested 180 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 585
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1294 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 9434
serna-free (#640976), requested 97 days ago
Reverse Depends: serna-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1360 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 88
wine (#479659), requested 1318 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: 13904
yasr (#474251), requested 1350 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
zookeeper (#579791), requested 594 days ago
Description: Information management inside a cluster. Part of the
hadoop family.
Reverse Depends: libzookeeper-dev libzookeeper-java-doc
python-zookeeper zookeeper zookeeper-bin zookeeperd
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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