Work-needing packages report for Jun 11, 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: 627 (new: 3)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 132 (new: 6)
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:
offlineimap (#585035), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: IMAP/Maildir synchronization and reader support
Installations reported by Popcon: 561
timidity (#585039), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Software sound renderer (MIDI sequencer, MOD player)
Reverse Depends: exult solfege songwrite timidity-daemon timidity-el
timidity-interfaces-extra
Installations reported by Popcon: 4807
webcalendar (#585088), orphaned yesterday
Description: PHP-Based multi-user calendar
Installations reported by Popcon: 122
624 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:
autounit (#585423), offered today
Description: C unit testing framework interfacing well with
autotools
Reverse Depends: libautounit-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
bookmarkbridge (#585421), offered today
Description: tool to synchronize bookmarks between browsers
Installations reported by Popcon: 149
gtimelog (#585145), offered yesterday
Description: minimal timelogging system
Installations reported by Popcon: 111
pstoedit (#585060), offered 2 days ago
Description: PostScript and PDF files to editable vector graphics
converter
Reverse Depends: autotrace libautotrace-dev libautotrace3
libpstoedit-dev pstoedit purifyeps
Installations reported by Popcon: 13248
pstotext (#585061), offered 2 days ago
Description: Extract text from PostScript and PDF files
Reverse Depends: dhelp steam
Installations reported by Popcon: 1364
scribes (#584529), offered 6 days ago
Description: simple, slim and sleek, yet powerful text editor for
GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 140
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 307 days ago
Description: retrieve, build and install libraries for
cross-compiling
Reverse Depends: apt-cross emdebian-crush
Installations reported by Popcon: 341
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 129 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher
Installations reported by Popcon: 12084
ara (#450876), requested 942 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 114
asymptote (#517342), requested 468 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1305
athcool (#278442), requested 2053 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 144
boinc (#511243), requested 518 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1608
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 11 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromium-browser chromium-browser-dbg
chromium-browser-l10n gecko-mediaplayer sun-java6-plugin
Installations reported by Popcon: 1266
cvs (#354176), requested 1568 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: 24806
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 957 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: 13135
debtags (#567954), requested 129 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: debtags-edit goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2641
dietlibc (#544060), requested 286 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 233
doc-central (#566364), requested 138 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 298
dpkg (#282283), requested 2027 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 (513 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91630
elvis (#432298), requested 1067 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: 395
fbcat (#565156), requested 148 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Reverse Depends: fbgrab
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
flightgear (#487388), requested 719 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 640
flite (#576327), requested 68 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: 9697
gentoo (#422498), requested 1131 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 229
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 791 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: 511
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 651 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 234
grub2 (#248397), requested 2222 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: 71766
gwibber (#573822), requested 88 days ago
Description: microblogging client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 483
hadoop (#579787), requested 41 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: 19
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 197 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 719
hibernate (#558739), requested 192 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 14561
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 744 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 10385
imagemagick (#452314), requested 932 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ansel1 ascd asymptote
bins calibre calibre-bin docbook2odf (97 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 31349
jove (#470185), requested 823 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 474 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 43
koffice (#541691), requested 299 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 2680
kvm (#479951), requested 764 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1844
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 232 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: 15268
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 474 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15714
libcap2 (#534999), requested 347 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: apache2.2-bin asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bind9
bind9-host bind9utils cifs-utils dnsutils hercules (66 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 72639
libopenraw (#530244), requested 383 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: 11728
link-grammar (#556010), requested 209 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: 9003
logcheck (#539944), requested 310 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4491
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1379 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 569
lzma (#553707), requested 221 days ago
Description: future of Debian squashfs-lzma
Reverse Depends: dtrx libcomplearn-mod-lzmax locales-all lzma-source
vsag
Installations reported by Popcon: 75299
mdadm (#537993), requested 323 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 12863
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 736 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: 476
mol (#436450), requested 1038 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: 32
monotone (#574609), requested 83 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Reverse Depends: monotone-doc monotone-server qct
Installations reported by Popcon: 332
mtr (#527482), requested 399 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 29728
mutt (#512072), requested 510 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: 76527
mwavem (#313369), requested 1823 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 2
nas (#354174), requested 1568 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas audiooss camstream
celestia-kde creox djplay djview3 dssi-example-plugins (110 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 44403
nn (#470187), requested 823 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 105
openbox (#566900), requested 136 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: 3547
openldap (#512360), requested 506 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 (219 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 75621
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 1151 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: 40453
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1339 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph65
libopenthreads-dev openscenegraph simgear-dev simgear1.9.1
Installations reported by Popcon: 186
openssl (#332498), requested 1708 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 (683 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91274
phpwiki (#540061), requested 309 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 64
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1277 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 374
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 457 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: 6466
pyro (#530280), requested 383 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 345
quilt (#543541), requested 289 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: 8183
resolvconf (#477723), requested 777 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 9043
sepolgen (#483641), requested 741 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 13254
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 807 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 109
usplash (#563195), requested 161 days ago
Description: Userspace bootsplash utility
Reverse Depends: education-thin-client libusplash-dev
tuxonice-userui usplash
Installations reported by Popcon: 1146
wine (#479659), requested 765 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: 13426
yasr (#474251), requested 797 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
zookeeper (#579791), requested 41 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: 7
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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