Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2014
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: 568 (new: 3)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 136 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requested help for: 58 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
crystalhd (#743610), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Crystal HD Video Decoder (development files)
Reverse Depends: gstreamer0.10-crystalhd libcrystalhd-dev vlc-nox
Installations reported by Popcon: 54196
guile-gnome-platform (#743714), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Guile bindings for GLib
Reverse Depends: guile-gnome2-canvas guile-gnome2-dev
guile-gnome2-gconf guile-gnome2-gnome guile-gnome2-gnome-ui
guile-gnome2-gtk guile-gnome2-vfs gwave
Installations reported by Popcon: 428
hotot (#743767), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: lightweight microblogging client - metapackage
Reverse Depends: hotot hotot-gtk hotot-qt
Installations reported by Popcon: 340
565 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:
attic (#743829), offered 4 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
135 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] scilab (#744140), requested today
Description: Scientific software package for numerical computations
Reverse Depends: cantor-backend-scilab python-sciscipy scilab
scilab-ann scilab-celestlab scilab-cli scilab-doc-fr scilab-doc-ja
scilab-doc-pt-br scilab-full-bin (8 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1963
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 1529 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: ept-cache fuss-launcher goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 79704
athcool (#278442), requested 3453 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
balsa (#642906), requested 928 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 812
cardstories (#624100), requested 1081 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 1411 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromedriver chromium chromium-dbg chromium-l10n
mozplugger
Installations reported by Popcon: 25377
cups (#532097), requested 1769 days ago
Description: Common UNIX Printing System
Reverse Depends: bluez-cups chromium cups cups-backend-bjnp
cups-browsed cups-bsd cups-client cups-core-drivers cups-daemon
cups-dbg (62 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 139737
debtags (#567954), requested 1529 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2438
fbcat (#565156), requested 1548 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 151
freeipmi (#628062), requested 1050 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 (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 4764
gnat-4.8 (#539562), requested 2191 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: dh-ada-library gnat-4.8 gnat-4.8-sjlj libgnat-4.8
libgnat-4.8-dbg libgnatprj4.8 libgnatprj4.8-dbg libgnatprj4.8-dev
libgnatvsn4.8 libgnatvsn4.8-dbg (2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 106
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 2051 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 528
gnokii (#677750), requested 663 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: 1753
gnupg (#660685), requested 780 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Reverse Depends: apt arriero bootstrap-base cdebootstrap
cdebootstrap-static cdebootstrap-udeb clamav-unofficial-sigs
cloud-utils debian-archive-keyring debian-edu-archive-keyring (55
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 169820
gpa (#663405), requested 761 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 616
gradle (#683666), requested 616 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Reverse Depends: gradle libgradle-plugins-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 84
gridengine (#703256), requested 389 days ago
Description: Distributed resource management
Reverse Depends: gridengine-client gridengine-drmaa-dev
gridengine-exec gridengine-master gridengine-qmon logol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1182
grub2 (#248397), requested 3622 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 (33 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 162877
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1597 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1535
iproute (#705169), requested 365 days ago
Description: networking and traffic control tools
Reverse Depends: aiccu apf-firewall arno-iptables-firewall
autopkgtest-xenlvm dsc-statistics-collector epoptes-client
fai-client ganeti-2.10 guestfsd heartbeat (32 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 167465
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 759 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1178
isdnutils (#661110), requested 776 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Reverse Depends: asterisk-chan-capi capi4hylafax capiutils drdsl
ffgtk ibod ipppd isdnactivecards isdnlog isdnutils-xtools (5 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8630
jmol (#719330), requested 243 days ago
Description: Molecular Viewer
Reverse Depends: jalview jmol jmol-applet libbiojava3.0-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 394
jove (#470185), requested 2223 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1314
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1874 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb whiteboard
Installations reported by Popcon: 13008
libburn (#679249), requested 652 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 simpleburn (2
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 81044
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1747 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bacula-common
bacula-console bacula-console-qt bacula-director-common
bacula-director-mysql bacula-director-pgsql bacula-director-sqlite3
(103 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 165698
libept (#678382), requested 658 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptitude debtags goplay libept-dev packagesearch
synaptic
Installations reported by Popcon: 118481
libisoburn (#679265), requested 652 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Reverse Depends: debian-cd libisoburn-dbg libisoburn-dev simpleburn
xorriso
Installations reported by Popcon: 1481
libisofs (#679254), requested 652 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: 80807
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2551 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Reverse Depends: browser-plugin-libreoffice docvert-libreoffice
gnome jodconverter jodreports-cli libaccessodf-java
libjodconverter-java libjodreports-java libreoffice libreoffice-base
(186 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 77026
libteam (#743212), requested 10 days ago
Description: library for controlling team network device
libvorbisidec (#698378), requested 448 days ago
Description: Integer-only Ogg Vorbis decoder, AKA 'tremor'
Reverse Depends: libvorbisidec-dev mednafen mpd onscripter
Installations reported by Popcon: 9405
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1609 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Reverse Depends: abiword-plugin-grammar libgrammar4 liblink-grammar4
liblink-grammar4-dev liblink-grammar4-java link-grammar
Installations reported by Popcon: 8412
logcheck (#539944), requested 1710 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck logster
Installations reported by Popcon: 5052
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 2136 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-extensions
mediawiki-extensions-collection mediawiki-extensions-geshi
mediawiki-extensions-graphviz mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth
mediawiki-extensions-openid
Installations reported by Popcon: 1089
mg (#734331), requested 94 days ago
Description: microscopic GNU Emacs-style editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 351
munin (#655889), requested 817 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: 10018
mysql-utilities (#741911), requested 24 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for managing MySQL servers
Installations reported by Popcon: 3120
nas (#354174), requested 2968 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm alsaplayer-nas gbsplay isdnvboxclient
libaudio-dev libqtgui4 nas nas-bin speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins
timidity (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 97551
nilfs-tools (#723599), requested 205 days ago
Description: Continuous Snapshotting Log-structured Filesystem
Reverse Depends: libguestfs0 nilfs-tools-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 277
nn (#470187), requested 2223 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 95
openldap (#512360), requested 1906 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 adcli alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
apache2-bin (199 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 165992
openmx (#706711), requested 342 days ago
Description: package for nano-scale material simulations
Installations reported by Popcon: 176
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2739 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: choreonoid-plugins-base fgrun flightgear
libcnoid-dev libcnoid1 libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph99
libopenthreads-dev libopenwalnut1 libopenwalnut1-dev (19 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1254
openssl (#332498), requested 3108 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 3270-common 389-ds-base afflib-tools alpine
amanda-client amanda-common amanda-server amqp-tools
android-tools-adb anon-proxy (792 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 166666
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 658 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: 12
parmetis (#706710), requested 342 days ago (non-free)
Description: Parallel Graph Partitioning and Sparse Matrix Ordering
Tests
Reverse Depends: libparmetis-dev libsuitesparse-metis-3.1.0
libsuitesparse-metis-dbg libsuitesparse-metis-dev parmetis-test
Installations reported by Popcon: 150
php-horde-core (#686007), requested 591 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
Reverse Depends: php-horde php-horde-ansel php-horde-content
php-horde-dav php-horde-form php-horde-gollem php-horde-imp
php-horde-ingo php-horde-kronolith php-horde-mnemo (10 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
php5 (#664595), requested 752 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Reverse Depends: adminer ampache auth2db-frontend cacti cakephp
cakephp-instaweb cakephp-scripts collabtive d-push davical (436 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 60964
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1857 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: 8845
pulseaudio (#743303), requested 9 days ago
Description: PulseAudio sound server
Reverse Depends: aegisub aqualung audacious-plugins blueman
cairo-dock-impulse-plug-in cinnamon empathy ffgtk fische fldigi (140
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 110662
pyro (#530280), requested 1783 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-common
Installations reported by Popcon: 1704
rng-tools (#630920), requested 1027 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 995
screen (#654116), requested 829 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Reverse Depends: apt-dater byobu cereal epoptes-client mdm
piuparts-slave podracer screen-dbg screenie
Installations reported by Popcon: 48342
software-center (#733233), requested 104 days ago
Description: Utility for browsing, installing, and removing software
Installations reported by Popcon: 12196
spamassassin (#676314), requested 673 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: claws-mail-spamassassin fuzzyocr sa-compile sa-exim
sa-learn-cyrus spamass-milter spamassassin-heatu spampd
Installations reported by Popcon: 16084
xml-core (#660687), requested 780 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 (11 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 153993
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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