Work-needing packages report for Jul 25, 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: 484 (new: 6)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 123 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 50 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
audio-cd (#491605), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Library to handle CDDB and low-level cd io calls
Reverse Depends: disc-cover yaret
Installations reported by Popcon: 442
disc-cover (#491606), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Generate CD disc covers for jewel-cases
Installations reported by Popcon: 233
dpkg-awk (#491857), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Gawk script to parse /var/lib/dpkg/{status,available}
and Packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 909
faqomatic (#491607), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: online interactive FAQ CGI
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
jzlib (#491858), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Reimplementation of zlib in pure java
Installations reported by Popcon: 77
lurkftp (#491859), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: monitor changes in ftp sites and opt. mirror to a local
directory
Installations reported by Popcon: 34
478 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 123 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 (#470795), requested 133 days ago
Description: Co-maintainer wanted
Reverse Depends: achims-guestbook ampache apache2 apache2-dbg
apache2-mpm-event apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-prefork
apache2-mpm-worker apache2-prefork-dev apache2-suexec (153 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 38138
ara (#450876), requested 256 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
athcool (#278442), requested 1367 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 238
bash-completion (#472468), requested 122 days ago
Description: programmable completion for the bash shell
Installations reported by Popcon: 12612
cfs (#458061), requested 209 days ago
Description: Cryptographic Filesystem
Installations reported by Popcon: 116
cvs (#354176), requested 882 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsdelta cvsps (12 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 22083
darcs (#486192), requested 40 days ago
Description: an advanced revision control system
Reverse Depends: arch2darcs darcs-buildpackage darcs-load-dirs
darcs-monitor darcs-server darcsweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1380
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 271 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: 8387
dpkg (#282283), requested 1342 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 checkinstall clamsmtp (114
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 74992
drscheme (#402589), requested 591 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 370
elvis (#432298), requested 381 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: 264
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 229 days ago (non-free)
Description: non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx display driver
Reverse Depends: fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-atieventsd fglrx-control
fglrx-driver fglrx-glx fglrx-glx-ia32 fglrx-kernel-src
Installations reported by Popcon: 2188
flightgear (#487388), requested 33 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 921
gentoo (#422498), requested 445 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 273
gnat-4.1 (#475369), requested 105 days ago
Description: help needed with bug triaging
Reverse Depends: gnade-bin gnat-4.1 gnat-gps libadasockets-dev
libaunit-dev libaunit1.03 libflorist-dev libflorist2006
libgnademysql-dev libgnademysql1.6 (23 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 825
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 105 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacontrol asis-programs ghdl gnat
gnat-4.3 gnat-glade libadasockets-dev libahven12 libalog0 (24 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 273
grub (#248397), requested 1536 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-choose-default grub-doc replicator
startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 68989
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 58 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 36394
imagemagick (#452314), requested 246 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale ascd asymptote
bins cimg-dev docbook2odf drgeo (80 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 23163
ispell-et (#391105), requested 659 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 70
jove (#470185), requested 137 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 186
kvm (#479951), requested 78 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1070
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 693 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 767
mantis (#471094), requested 131 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 64
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 50 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 333
milter-greylist (#470188), requested 137 days ago
Description: GreyList milter for sendmail
Installations reported by Popcon: 35
mol (#436450), requested 352 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: 66
mwavem (#313369), requested 1137 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
nas (#354174), requested 882 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor apollon atlantik attal
audiooss bibletime camstream (250 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 49962
nn (#470187), requested 137 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 134
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 465 days ago
Description: OpenOffice.org Office suite
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-common brdesktop-gnome broffice.org
cli-uno-bridge docvert-openoffice.org libuno-cli-cppuhelper1.0-cil
libuno-cli-types1.1-cil libuno-cli-ure1.0-cil mozilla-openoffice.org
openoffice.org (88 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 43625
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 653 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph7
libopenthreads-dev openscenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 161
openssl (#332498), requested 1022 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 (581 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 73964
request-tracker3.6 (#469353), requested 142 days ago
Description: Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system
Reverse Depends: request-tracker3.6 rt3.6-rtfm
Installations reported by Popcon: 236
resolvconf (#477723), requested 91 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 5565
rt2400 (#411791), requested 520 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 146
rt2570 (#411790), requested 520 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 221
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 659 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1318
sepolgen (#483641), requested 56 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 10448
sgml-data (#358521), requested 855 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: 46350
smlnj (#428273), requested 410 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: 89
spamassassin (#469124), requested 143 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
Installations reported by Popcon: 12457
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 121 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1452 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: cli-uno-bridge libstlport4.6-dev
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: 9655
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 746 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1253
torrus (#433223), requested 375 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 26
unicorn (#345547), requested 935 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 72
update-inetd (#472470), requested 122 days ago
Description: inetd.conf updater
Reverse Depends: amanda-common bootp cups-bsd cvs ebhttpd ebnetd
ebnetd-common efingerd fam fingerd (26 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 73397
wine (#479659), requested 80 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Reverse Depends: libwine-alsa libwine-capi libwine-cms libwine-dbg
libwine-dev libwine-esd libwine-gl libwine-gphoto2 libwine-jack
libwine-ldap (10 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 11497
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 172 days ago
Description: help for wxwidgets2.8 is appreciated
Reverse Depends: amule amule-daemon amule-utils amule-utils-gui
bittornado-gui drpython extrema filezilla golly libwxbase2.8-dbg (13
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6870
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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