Work-needing packages report for Aug 15, 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: 468 (new: 18)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 120 (new: 3)
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:
asclassic (#494601), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: X11 window manager, AfterStep Classic (forked from
v1.1)
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
bcm5700-source (#494707), orphaned 3 days ago (non-free)
Description: module source for Broadcom's bcm5700 ethernet driver
Installations reported by Popcon: 145
cnews (#494616), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: simple news server for Usenet news
Reverse Depends: newsx nntp
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
ecartis (#494617), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: CGI front-end for Ecartis
Reverse Depends: ecartis-cgi
Installations reported by Popcon: 30
exiftags (#494593), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Utility to read Exif tags from a digital camera JPEG
file
Installations reported by Popcon: 926
fdclone (#494602), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: A console-base lightweight file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 146
forutil (#494603), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: a collection of FORTRAN 77 utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 64
gsfonts-wadalab (#494604), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Japanese mincho fonts for the ghostscript interpreter
Reverse Depends: gsfonts-wadalab-gothic gsfonts-wadalab-mincho
Installations reported by Popcon: 257
hinfo (#494618), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Check address ownership and DNSBL listings for spam
reporting
Installations reported by Popcon: 80
libmath-basecalc-perl (#494594), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Convert numbers between various bases
Installations reported by Popcon: 70
libnews-newsrc-perl (#494596), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Manage newsrc files
Reverse Depends: ubh
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
libset-intspan-perl (#494598), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Manages sets of integers
Reverse Depends: libnews-newsrc-perl libpsp-perl
w3c-markup-validator
Installations reported by Popcon: 375
libvisual-projectm (#494502), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: libvisual module for projectM
Installations reported by Popcon: 113
moodle (#494642), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Course Management System for Online Learning
Reverse Depends: moodle-book moodle-debian-edu-theme
Installations reported by Popcon: 117
nntp (#494619), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: An NNTP server for use with C News
Installations reported by Popcon: 59
rxp (#494599), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: A validating XML parser
Reverse Depends: librxp1-dev rxp
Installations reported by Popcon: 146
xcalendar-i18n (#494605), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: calendar program on X with i18n support
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
xpostit (#494606), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: simple postit program on X with I18N support
Installations reported by Popcon: 95
450 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:
afbackup (#495125), offered today
Description: Client-Server Backup System
Reverse Depends: afbackup afbackup-client
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
ilmbase (#494878), offered 2 days ago
Description: several utility libraries from ILM used by OpenEXR
Reverse Depends: aqsis-libsc2a blender exrtools hugin-tools k3d
kdebase-kio-plugins kdelibs4c2a kdelibs5 krita libgegl-0.0-0 (18
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15398
openexr (#494877), offered 2 days ago
Description: the OpenEXR image library
Reverse Depends: aqsis-libsc2a blender exrtools hugin-tools k3d
kdebase-kio-plugins kdebase-runtime kdegraphics-kfile-plugins
kdelibs4-dev kdelibs4c2a (23 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15399
117 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:
apache2 (#470795), requested 154 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: 37874
ara (#450876), requested 277 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 117
athcool (#278442), requested 1388 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 237
bash-completion (#472468), requested 143 days ago
Description: programmable completion for the bash shell
Installations reported by Popcon: 13471
cfs (#458061), requested 230 days ago
Description: Cryptographic Filesystem
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
cvs (#354176), requested 903 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: 21505
darcs (#486192), requested 61 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: 1368
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 292 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies dlocate feta
haskell-devscripts hg-buildpackage ia32-archive ia32-libs-tools
mlmmj sbuild (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8402
dpkg (#282283), requested 1363 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 (112
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 73987
drscheme (#402589), requested 612 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 331
elvis (#432298), requested 402 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: 272
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 250 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: 2067
flightgear (#487388), requested 54 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 898
gentoo (#422498), requested 466 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 273
gnat-4.1 (#475369), requested 126 days ago
Description: help needed with bug triaging
Reverse Depends: gnat-4.1 gnat-gps libgnat-4.1 libgnat-4.1-dbg
libgnatprj4.1 libgnatprj4.1-dbg libgnatprj4.1-dev libgnatvsn4.1
libgnatvsn4.1-dbg libgnatvsn4.1-dev (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 795
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 126 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacontrol asis-programs ghdl gnade-bin
gnat gnat-4.3 gnat-gps libadasockets-dev libahven12 (44 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 289
grub (#248397), requested 1557 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-choose-default grub-doc replicator
startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 67884
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 79 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 35511
imagemagick (#452314), requested 267 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale ascd asymptote
bins cimg-dev docbook2odf drgeo (82 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 22858
ispell-et (#391105), requested 680 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 102
jove (#470185), requested 158 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 204
kvm (#479951), requested 99 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1080
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 714 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 736
mantis (#471094), requested 152 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 63
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 71 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 331
milter-greylist (#470188), requested 158 days ago
Description: GreyList milter for sendmail
Installations reported by Popcon: 30
mol (#436450), requested 373 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: 63
mwavem (#313369), requested 1158 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
nas (#354174), requested 903 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor apollon atlantik attal
audiooss bibletime camstream (245 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 48420
nn (#470187), requested 158 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 126
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 486 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: 42218
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 674 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph7
libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 openscenegraph osgcal
Installations reported by Popcon: 168
openssl (#332498), requested 1043 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 (577 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 72989
request-tracker3.6 (#469353), requested 163 days ago
Description: Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system
Reverse Depends: request-tracker3.6 rt3.6-rtfm
Installations reported by Popcon: 227
resolvconf (#477723), requested 112 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 5895
rt2400 (#411791), requested 541 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 137
rt2570 (#411790), requested 541 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 211
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 680 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1363
sepolgen (#483641), requested 77 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 11407
sgml-data (#358521), requested 876 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: 44815
smlnj (#428273), requested 431 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: 80
spamassassin (#469124), requested 164 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: 12285
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 142 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1473 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: 9716
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 767 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1226
torrus (#433223), requested 396 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
unicorn (#345547), requested 956 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 73
update-inetd (#472470), requested 143 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: 72468
wine (#479659), requested 101 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: 11174
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 193 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: 6785
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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