Work-needing packages report for May 10, 2013
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: 512 (new: 9)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 139 (new: 5)
Total number of packages requested help for: 64 (new: 3)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
elilo (#707112), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Bootloader for systems using EFI-based firmware
Reverse Depends: bootcd-ia64
Installations reported by Popcon: 141
hsqldb (#707122), orphaned 2 days ago
Reverse Depends: biomaj entagged eucalyptus-java-common
hsqldb-server hsqldb-utils libbiojava1.7-java libbiojava3.0-java
libhsqldb-java-gcj libopenjpa-java libreoffice-base (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 71234
ko.tex (#707573), orphaned today
Description: Korean TeX: Core macros
Reverse Depends: ko.tex
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
ko.tex-extra-hlfont (#707574), orphaned today
Description: Korean TeX: Extra HLaTeX fonts
Installations reported by Popcon: 3275
ko.tex-unfonts (#707575), orphaned today
Description: Korean TeX: Base fonts
Reverse Depends: ko.tex
Installations reported by Popcon: 37
libapache-mod-layout (#707149), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Apache web page content wrapper
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
libapache-mod-random (#707143), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Create random ads, quotes and redirects
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
sampleicc (#707334), orphaned today
Reverse Depends: libicc-utils-dev libsampleicc-dev sampleicc-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 70
ttf-alee (#707576), orphaned today
Description: free Hangul TrueType fonts
Reverse Depends: sdl-ball-data
Installations reported by Popcon: 1190
503 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:
ant-phone (#707572), offered today
Description: An interactive ISDN telephone application
Installations reported by Popcon: 12
dawgdic (#706886), offered 4 days ago
Description: C++ library for DAWG dictionaries
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
libb64 (#706894), offered 4 days ago
Description: base64 encoding/decoding library
Reverse Depends: libb64-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
python-dawg (#706887), offered 4 days ago
Description: Python library for DAWG dictionaries
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
sentinella (#707649), offered today
Description: System monitor that can react to user chosen conditions
Installations reported by Popcon: 134
134 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:
[NEW] openmx (#706711), requested 6 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 178
[NEW] openni2 (#707056), requested 2 days ago
Description: Debian package for openni version 2 software from
OpenNi.org
[NEW] parmetis (#706710), requested 6 days ago (non-free)
Reverse Depends: libparmetis-dev libsuitesparse-metis-3.1.0
libsuitesparse-metis-dbg libsuitesparse-metis-dev parmetis-test
Installations reported by Popcon: 218
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 1193 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: ept-cache fuss-launcher goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 79336
asymptote (#517342), requested 1532 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 4821
athcool (#278442), requested 3117 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 66
balsa (#642906), requested 592 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 932
bastille (#592137), requested 1006 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 188
cardstories (#624100), requested 745 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 1075 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromium chromium-browser chromium-browser-dbg
chromium-browser-inspector chromium-browser-l10n chromium-dbg
chromium-l10n mozplugger
Installations reported by Popcon: 17137
cups (#532097), requested 1433 days ago
Description: Common UNIX Printing System
Reverse Depends: bluez-cups chromium cups cups-backend-bjnp cups-bsd
cups-client cups-dbg cups-filters cups-pdf cups-pk-helper (67 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 124522
debtags (#567954), requested 1193 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 8807
doc-central (#566364), requested 1202 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 217
fbcat (#565156), requested 1212 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 157
flightgear (#487388), requested 1783 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 1002
freeipmi (#628062), requested 714 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Reverse Depends: freeipmi freeipmi-bmc-watchdog freeipmi-ipmidetect
freeipmi-tools libfreeipmi-dev libfreeipmi12 libipmiconsole-dev
libipmiconsole2 libipmidetect-dev libipmidetect0 (2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2512
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1850 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Reverse Depends: ghdl gnat-4.4 libgnat-4.4 libgnat-4.4-dbg
libgnatprj-dev libgnatprj4.4 libgnatprj4.4-dbg libgnatprj4.4-dev
libgnatvsn-dev libgnatvsn4.4 (2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2015
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1715 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 540
gnokii (#677750), requested 327 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Reverse Depends: gnokii gnokii-cli gnokii-smsd gnokii-smsd-mysql
gnokii-smsd-pgsql gnome-phone-manager libgnokii-dev libgnokii6
xgnokii
Installations reported by Popcon: 2363
gnupg (#660685), requested 444 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Reverse Depends: apt bootstrap-base cdebootstrap cdebootstrap-static
cdebootstrap-udeb clamav-unofficial-sigs cloud-utils
debian-archive-keyring debian-edu-archive-keyring
debian-ports-archive-keyring (49 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 154250
golang (#668870), requested 389 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Reverse Depends: golang golang-dbg golang-doc golang-go
Installations reported by Popcon: 820
gpa (#663405), requested 425 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 693
gradle (#683666), requested 280 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Reverse Depends: gradle libgradle-plugins-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 29
gridengine (#703256), requested 53 days ago
Description: Distributed resource management
Reverse Depends: gridengine-client gridengine-drmaa-dev
gridengine-exec gridengine-master gridengine-qmon logol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1267
grub2 (#248397), requested 3286 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: grml-rescueboot grml2usb grub-coreboot
grub-coreboot-bin grub-coreboot-dbg grub-disk grub-efi
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-dbg (21 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 145751
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1261 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1627
horde4 (#686007), requested 255 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1808 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 2754
iproute (#705169), requested 29 days ago
Description: networking and traffic control tools
Reverse Depends: aiccu apf-firewall arno-iptables-firewall
autopkgtest-xenlvm ctdb dsc-statistics-collector epoptes-client
fai-client firehol ganeti2 (40 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 150838
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 423 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1261
isdnutils (#661110), requested 440 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Reverse Depends: ant-phone asterisk-chan-capi capi4hylafax capiutils
drdsl ffgtk ibod ipppd isdnactivecards isdnlog (8 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15548
jove (#470185), requested 1887 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1818
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1296 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Reverse Depends: alliance cmucl-clm ddd dx elk geomview grace
grass-gui gridengine-qmon hotswap-gui (49 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 24081
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1538 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 18144
libburn (#679249), requested 316 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Reverse Depends: cdrskin cdw k3b libbrasero-media3-1 libburn-dbg
libburn-dev libisoburn-dbg libisoburn-dev libisoburn1 xfburn (1 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 71073
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1411 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: apache2.2-bin asterisk autodir avahi-daemon
bacula-common bacula-console bacula-console-qt
bacula-director-common bacula-director-mysql bacula-director-pgsql
(105 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 148820
libept (#678382), requested 322 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptitude debtags goplay libept-dev packagesearch
synaptic
Installations reported by Popcon: 57003
libisoburn (#679265), requested 316 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Reverse Depends: debian-cd libisoburn-dbg libisoburn-dev xorriso
Installations reported by Popcon: 1231
libisofs (#679254), requested 316 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Reverse Depends: libbrasero-media3-1 libisoburn-dbg libisoburn-dev
libisoburn1 libisofs-dbg libisofs-dev xfburn xorriso
Installations reported by Popcon: 70853
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2215 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Reverse Depends: accessodf browser-plugin-libreoffice
docvert-libreoffice gnome jabref-plugin-oo jodconverter
jodreports-cli libjodconverter-java libjodreports-java libreoffice
(341 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 71358
libvorbisidec (#698378), requested 112 days ago
Reverse Depends: libvorbisidec-dev mpd onscripter
Installations reported by Popcon: 7235
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1273 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: 13785
logcheck (#539944), requested 1374 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 5134
maradns (#678460), requested 322 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Reverse Depends: maradns maradns-zoneserver
Installations reported by Popcon: 100
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1800 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-extensions
mediawiki-extensions-collection mediawiki-extensions-confirmedit
mediawiki-extensions-geshi mediawiki-extensions-graphviz
mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth mediawiki-extensions-openid
Installations reported by Popcon: 739
monotone (#574609), requested 1147 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: 359
munin (#655889), requested 481 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Reverse Depends: mailping munin munin-async munin-libvirt-plugins
munin-node munin-plugins-core munin-plugins-extra munin-plugins-java
munin-plugins-openstack
Installations reported by Popcon: 9662
nas (#354174), requested 2632 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm alsaplayer-nas gbsplay ia32-libs-i386
isdnvboxclient libaudio-dev libqtgui4 mplayer2 nas nas-bin (3 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 84190
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 439 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 115
nn (#470187), requested 1887 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 94
openldap (#512360), requested 1570 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: 389-admin 389-ds-base 389-ds-base-dev
389-ds-base-libs 389-dsgw alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
apache2.2-bin asterisk-modules (197 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 149654
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2403 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: fgrun flightgear libopenscenegraph-dev
libopenscenegraph80 libopenthreads-dev libopenwalnut1
libopenwalnut1-dev libosgearth-dev libosgearth1 libossim1 (10 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1257
openssl (#332498), requested 2772 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 android-tools-adb anon-proxy
aolserver4-nsopenssl apache2-prefork-dev (711 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 150814
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 322 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Reverse Depends: openvanilla-imgeneric-data-all
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-ja openvanilla-imgeneric-data-ko
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-th openvanilla-imgeneric-data-vi
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-zh-cn openvanilla-imgeneric-data-zh-hk
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-zh-tw ucimf-openvanilla
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
php5 (#664595), requested 416 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Reverse Depends: acidbase adminer ampache auth2db-frontend
bandwidthd-pgsql cacti cakephp cakephp-instaweb cakephp-scripts
collabtive (377 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 61724
ppp (#589632), requested 1025 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Reverse Depends: ipppd kppp network-manager-pptp portslave pppconfig
pppdcapiplugin pppoe pppoeconf pptp-linux pptpd (7 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 80202
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1521 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: 8564
pyro (#530280), requested 1447 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 2250
rng-tools (#630920), requested 691 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 855
screen (#654116), requested 493 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Reverse Depends: apt-dater byobu cereal epoptes-client mdm
piuparts-slave podracer screenie
Installations reported by Popcon: 49958
serna-free (#640976), requested 608 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Reverse Depends: serna-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
spamassassin (#676314), requested 337 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: claws-mail-spamassassin fuzzyocr sa-exim
sa-learn-cyrus spamass-milter spamassassin-heatu spampd
Installations reported by Popcon: 15235
worldwind (#693296), requested 175 days ago (non-free)
Description: 3D Virtual Globe
Reverse Depends: worldwind
Installations reported by Popcon: 333
xml-core (#660687), requested 444 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Reverse Depends: dia-common docbook-ebnf docbook-mathml
docbook-simple docbook-slides docbook-website docbook-xml
docbook-xsl docbook-xsl-ns docbook2x (10 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 134934
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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