Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2008
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: 421 (new: 7)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 100 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 43 (new: 2)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
libnss-lwres (#475089), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: no description
Installations reported by Popcon: 232
mffm-fftw (#474525), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: A C++ wrapper for the fftw.org C library (version 3)
Reverse Depends: mffm-fftw-dev wsola wsola-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 125
mffm-gtkclasses (#474522), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: GTK header files which make GUI implementation more
trivial in C++
Installations reported by Popcon: 19
mffm-libsndfilew (#474523), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: wrapper for the libsndfile audio file handling library
Reverse Depends: wsola-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
mffm-timecode (#474528), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: c++ hierarchy which controls and describes time code
Reverse Depends: wsola-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
usepackage (#475090), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: utility to manage environment variables from within
dotfiles
Installations reported by Popcon: 49
wsola (#474524), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: allows one to speed/slow audio without altering its
pitch
Reverse Depends: wsola-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 84
414 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:
afnix (#475377), offered today
Description: Compiler and run-time for the AFNIX programming
language
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
plib (#475428), offered today
Description: Portability Libraries
Reverse Depends: fgfs-atlas flightgear plib1.8.4-dev plib1.8.4-pic
simgear-dev stormbaancoureur supertuxkart torcs
Installations reported by Popcon: 3460
plib-doc (#475429), offered today
Description: Portability Libraries Documentation and Examples
Installations reported by Popcon: 35
97 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] gnat-4.1 (#475369), requested today
Description: help needed with bug triaging
Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacontrol asis-programs gnade-bin
gnat-4.1 gnat-gps libadasockets-dev libasis-dev libasis2005
libaunit-dev (39 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 895
[NEW] gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested today
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: gnat gnat-4.3 gnat-glade libgarlic-dev libgnat-4.3
libgnat-4.3-dbg libgnatprj-dev libgnatprj4.3 libgnatprj4.3-dbg
libgnatprj4.3-dev (6 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 64
apache2 (#470795), requested 28 days ago
Description: Co-maintainer wanted
Reverse Depends: adzapper ampache apache2 apache2-dbg
apache2-mpm-event apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-perchild
apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-mpm-worker apache2-prefork-dev (147 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 37929
apt-build (#365427), requested 712 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1026
ara (#450876), requested 151 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 123
athcool (#278442), requested 1262 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 261
bash-completion (#472468), requested 17 days ago
Description: programmable completion for the bash shell
Installations reported by Popcon: 2694
cfs (#458061), requested 104 days ago
Description: Cryptographic Filesystem
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
cvs (#354176), requested 777 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta cvsps (13 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 23376
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 166 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies dlocate feta
haskell-devscripts hg-buildpackage mlmmj sbuild simple-cdd
Installations reported by Popcon: 6453
dpkg (#282283), requested 1237 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: alien alsa-source apt-build apt-cross apt-src
backuppc build-essential bzr-builddeb clamsmtp crosshurd (100 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 78542
drscheme (#402589), requested 486 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 402
elvis (#432298), requested 276 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: 306
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 124 days ago (non-free)
Description: non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver
Reverse Depends: fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-control fglrx-driver fglrx-glx
fglrx-glx-ia32
Installations reported by Popcon: 2377
gentoo (#422498), requested 340 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 285
grub (#248397), requested 1431 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-doc replicator startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 72327
imagemagick (#452314), requested 141 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale ascd asymptote
bins cimg-dev curator dblatex (79 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 24039
ispell-et (#391105), requested 554 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 58
jove (#470185), requested 32 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 160
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 588 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 771
mantis (#471094), requested 26 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 60
milter-greylist (#470188), requested 32 days ago
Description: GreyList milter for sendmail
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
mol (#436450), requested 247 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: 74
mwavem (#313369), requested 1032 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 12
nas (#354174), requested 777 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amarok amor apollon ark
atlantik attal audiooss (300 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 54905
nn (#470187), requested 32 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 122
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 360 days ago
Description: OpenOffice.org Office suite
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-common brdesktop-gnome broffice.org
dmaths libuno-cil mozilla-openoffice.org openoffice.org
openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common (82
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 48992
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 548 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph6
libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 openscenegraph osgcal
Installations reported by Popcon: 181
openssl (#332498), requested 917 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 3270-common afbackup afbackup-client aircrack-ng
alpine anon-proxy aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-threaded-dev (561 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 77355
poppler (#423334), requested 335 days ago
Description: PDF rendering library and utilities
Reverse Depends: abiword-plugins claws-mail-pdf-viewer cupsys
epdfview evince evince-gtk gambas2-gb-pdf gimp
kdegraphics-kfile-plugins keyjnote (21 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 43834
request-tracker3.6 (#469353), requested 37 days ago
Description: Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system
Reverse Depends: request-tracker3.6 rt3.6-rtfm
Installations reported by Popcon: 200
rt2400 (#411791), requested 415 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 168
rt2570 (#411790), requested 415 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 269
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 554 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1486
sgml-data (#358521), requested 750 days ago
Description: common SGML and XML data
Reverse Depends: debiandoc-sgml debiandoc2dbxml docbook
docbook-simple docbook-xml epiphany-extensions linuxdoc-tools psgml
stardict-common w3c-dtd-xhtml (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 51342
smlnj (#428273), requested 305 days ago
Description: Standard ML of New Jersey interactive compiler
Reverse Depends: libckit-smlnj libcml-smlnj libcmlutil-smlnj
libexene-smlnj libmlnlffi-smlnj libmlrisctools-smlnj
libpgraphutil-smlnj libsmlnj-smlnj ml-burg ml-lex (5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 97
spamassassin (#469124), requested 38 days ago
Description: Perl-based spam filter using text analysis
Reverse Depends: claws-mail-spamassassin dtc-common fuzzyocr
mailscanner sa-exim sa-learn-cyrus spamass-milter spampd
sylpheed-claws-spamassassin
Installations reported by Popcon: 13184
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1347 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: libstlport4.6-dev libuno-cil mozilla-openoffice.org
openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-base-core openoffice.org-calc
openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-dev openoffice.org-draw
openoffice.org-evolution (14 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 367
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 641 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1234
torrus (#433223), requested 270 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
unicorn (#345547), requested 830 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 78
update-inetd (#472470), requested 17 days ago
Description: inetd.conf updater
Reverse Depends: amanda-common bootp cupsys-bsd cvs ebhttpd ebnetd
ebnetd-common efingerd fam fingerd (28 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 76478
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 67 days ago
Description: help for wxwidgets2.8 is appreciated
Installations reported by Popcon: 7397
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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