Work-needing packages report for Oct 17, 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: 441 (new: 3)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 124 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 49 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
libnagios-object-perl (#501941), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Parse and represent Nagios configuration as objects in
Perl
Installations reported by Popcon: 48
nautilus-share (#501938), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Nautilus extension to share folder using Samba
Installations reported by Popcon: 442
php-openid (#501946), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: php openid library
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
438 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 124 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 217 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 (154 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 39393
ara (#450876), requested 340 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 113
athcool (#278442), requested 1451 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 235
bash-completion (#472468), requested 206 days ago
Description: programmable completion for the bash shell
Installations reported by Popcon: 17071
cvs (#354176), requested 966 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: 21889
darcs (#486192), requested 124 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: 1366
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 355 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: 8924
dpkg (#282283), requested 1426 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 cacao-oj6-dbg cacao-oj6-jdk
(118 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 77272
drscheme (#402589), requested 675 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 345
elvis (#432298), requested 465 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: 379
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 313 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: 2125
flightgear (#487388), requested 117 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 936
gentoo (#422498), requested 529 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 275
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 189 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 libahven13 (45 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 469
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 49 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 117
grub (#248397), requested 1620 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-artwork-grub dfsbuild grub-choose-default
grub-doc replicator startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 70849
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 142 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 37245
imagemagick (#452314), requested 330 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: 24006
ispell-et (#391105), requested 743 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 106
jove (#470185), requested 221 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 309
kvm (#479951), requested 162 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1236
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 777 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 711
mantis (#471094), requested 215 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 71
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 134 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 365
milter-greylist (#470188), requested 221 days ago
Description: GreyList milter for sendmail
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
mol (#436450), requested 436 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: 56
mwavem (#313369), requested 1221 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
nas (#354174), requested 966 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor apollon atlantik
audiooss bibletime camstream celestia-kde (239 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 50102
nn (#470187), requested 221 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 118
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 549 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 (89 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 44064
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 737 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph7
libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 openscenegraph osgcal
Installations reported by Popcon: 181
openssl (#332498), requested 1106 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 (578 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 76463
request-tracker3.6 (#469353), requested 226 days ago
Description: Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system
Reverse Depends: request-tracker3.6 rt3.6-rtfm
Installations reported by Popcon: 238
resolvconf (#477723), requested 175 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 6877
rt2400 (#411791), requested 604 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 137
rt2570 (#411790), requested 604 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 214
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 743 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1468
sepolgen (#483641), requested 140 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 14846
sgml-data (#358521), requested 939 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: 46440
smlnj (#428273), requested 494 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: 88
spamassassin (#469124), requested 227 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: 12535
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 205 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 105
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1536 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: 11406
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 830 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1284
torrus (#433223), requested 459 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
unicorn (#345547), requested 1019 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 66
update-inetd (#472470), requested 206 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: 75884
wine (#479659), requested 164 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: 11728
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 256 days ago
Description: help for wxwidgets2.8 is appreciated
Reverse Depends: amaya amule amule-daemon amule-utils
amule-utils-gui bittornado-gui drpython esteidutil extrema filezilla
(21 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7001
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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