Work-needing packages report for Oct 31, 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: 498 (new: 60)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 118 (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:
a2ps-perl-ja (#503554), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: perl version of Miguel Santana's a2ps (supports KANJI)
Installations reported by Popcon: 164
chdrv (#503522), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Chinese terminal for the Linux console
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
chdrvfont (#503522), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Chinese terminal for the Linux console
Reverse Depends: chdrv
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
cookietool (#503560), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: A team of programs to help you maintain your fortune
database
Installations reported by Popcon: 122
crafty (#503533), orphaned 4 days ago (non-free)
Description: state-of-the-art chess engine, compatible with xboard
Reverse Depends: gnome-games
Installations reported by Popcon: 398
crafty-books-medium (#503534), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Small-size opening books for crafty chess engine.
Installations reported by Popcon: 154
crafty-books-medtosmall (#503534), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Small-size opening books for crafty chess engine.
Installations reported by Popcon: 146
crafty-books-small (#503534), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Small-size opening books for crafty chess engine.
Installations reported by Popcon: 29
epic4 (#503558), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: epic irc client, version 4
Reverse Depends: epic4-script-hienoa epic4-script-lice
Installations reported by Popcon: 381
epic4-help (#503558), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: epic irc client, version 4
Reverse Depends: epic4
Installations reported by Popcon: 397
es (#503547), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: An extensible shell based on `rc'
Installations reported by Popcon: 46
fluidsynth (#503528), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Real-time MIDI software synthesizer
Reverse Depends: audacious-plugins-dev audacious-plugins-extra
fluidsynth fluidsynth-dssi freesci freewheeling libcsound64-5.1
libfluidsynth-dev libtritonus-bin mscore (5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 4273
freetype1 (#503505), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Old FreeType 1 development files (static library and
headers)
Reverse Depends: freetype1-tools libttf-dev ttf2tex
Installations reported by Popcon: 10171
gnuplot-mode (#503549), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Yet another Gnuplot mode for Emacs
Installations reported by Popcon: 720
hbf-cns40-1 (#503508), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Chinese Fanti Song 40x40 bitmap font (CNS plane 1) for
CJK
Reverse Depends: hbf-cns40-b5
Installations reported by Popcon: 134
hbf-cns40-2 (#503508), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Chinese Fanti Song 40x40 bitmap font (CNS plane 1) for
CJK
Reverse Depends: hbf-cns40-b5
Installations reported by Popcon: 133
hbf-cns40-3 (#503508), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Chinese Fanti Song 40x40 bitmap font (CNS plane 1) for
CJK
Reverse Depends: hbf-cns40-b5
Installations reported by Popcon: 133
hbf-cns40-4 (#503508), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Chinese Fanti Song 40x40 bitmap font (CNS plane 1) for
CJK
Installations reported by Popcon: 87
hbf-cns40-5 (#503508), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Chinese Fanti Song 40x40 bitmap font (CNS plane 1) for
CJK
Installations reported by Popcon: 87
hbf-cns40-6 (#503508), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Chinese Fanti Song 40x40 bitmap font (CNS plane 1) for
CJK
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
hbf-cns40-7 (#503508), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Chinese Fanti Song 40x40 bitmap font (CNS plane 1) for
CJK
Installations reported by Popcon: 85
hbf-cns40-b5 (#503511), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Chinese Fanti Song 40x40 bitmap font (Big5) for CJK
Installations reported by Popcon: 127
hbf-jfs56 (#503507), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Chinese Jianti Fangsong 56x56 bitmap font (GB2312) for
CJK
Installations reported by Popcon: 101
hbf-kanji48 (#503506), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Japanese Kanji 48x48 bitmap font (JIS X-0208) for CJK
Installations reported by Popcon: 162
hermes1 (#503535), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: The Hermes pixel-format library
Reverse Depends: hermes1-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 2166
hztty (#503519), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Translates GB, Big5, zW/HZ Chinese encodings in a tty
session
Installations reported by Popcon: 12
iterm (#503503), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: internationalized terminal emulator, shared library
files
Reverse Depends: fbiterm libiterm-dev libxiterm-dev xiterm
Installations reported by Popcon: 153
j-cvsbook (#503553), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Open Source Development with CVS ; Japanese Translation
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
kaffeine-mozilla (#503489), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: mozilla plugin that launches kaffeine for supported
media types
Installations reported by Popcon: 1396
ktimetrace (#503536), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Graphical tool to measure and graph data
Installations reported by Popcon: 121
libdbix-password-perl (#503531), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Perl module for creating a global password file for DB
passwords
Reverse Depends: slash
Installations reported by Popcon: 71
libpam-ssh (#503487), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: enable SSO behavior for ssh and pam
Installations reported by Popcon: 599
libschedule-cron-perl (#503530), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Simple but complete cron like scheduler
Reverse Depends: slash
Installations reported by Popcon: 62
libvigraimpex (#503486), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: A C++ computer vision library
Reverse Depends: libvigraimpex-dev lprof
Installations reported by Popcon: 254
lice (#503561), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Very functional script for epic
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
m2c (#503518), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Modula-2 translator (compiler)
Installations reported by Popcon: 27
mpg123-el (#503552), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: a front-end program to mpg123 audio player on Emacsen
Installations reported by Popcon: 89
multi-aterm (#503393), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: tabbed terminal emulator with efficent pseudo
transparency
Installations reported by Popcon: 133
opustex (#503521), orphaned 4 days ago (non-free)
Description: Typeset music scores with TeX
Installations reported by Popcon: 19
qe (#503520), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: A PE2-like text full-screen color text editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
qsynth (#503527), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: fluidsynth MIDI sound synthesiser front-end
Installations reported by Popcon: 656
sam (#503546), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: the plan9 text editor -- ed with a gui and multi-file
editing
Installations reported by Popcon: 61
sjeng (#503526), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: A chess program that plays many variants
Installations reported by Popcon: 201
stardic (#503516), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: an English-Chinese dictionary software for Unix
Installations reported by Popcon: 800
sweep (#503496), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: An editor for sound samples
Reverse Depends: sweep-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 545
swh-plugins (#503497), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Steve Harris's LADSPA plugins
Reverse Depends: ams jack-rack jackeq jamin
Installations reported by Popcon: 2449
tochnog (#503504), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: A free implicit/explicit finite element analysis
program
Installations reported by Popcon: 62
toolbar-fancy (#503551), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Fancy toolbar for XEmacs21
Installations reported by Popcon: 41
tspc (#503494), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Client to configure an IPv6 tunnel to Hexago's
migration broker
Installations reported by Popcon: 128
ttf-arphic-bkai00mp (#503517), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: "AR PL KaitiM Big5" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic
Technology
Reverse Depends: xpdf-chinese-traditional
Installations reported by Popcon: 1234
ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp (#503514), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: "AR PL Mingti2L Big5" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic
Technology
Reverse Depends: chinput
Installations reported by Popcon: 1580
ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp (#503513), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: "AR PL SungtiL GB" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic
Technology
Reverse Depends: chinput
Installations reported by Popcon: 2015
ttf-arphic-gkai00mp (#503512), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: "AR PL KaitiM GB" Chinese TrueType font by Arphic
Technology
Reverse Depends: xpdf-chinese-simplified
Installations reported by Popcon: 1956
ttf2pt1 (#503502), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: A TrueType to PostScript Type 1 Font Converter
Reverse Depends: ttf2pt1-chinese
Installations reported by Popcon: 1167
ttf2pt1-chinese (#503515), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Chinese fonts encoding maps for ttf2pt1
Installations reported by Popcon: 702
ttmkfdir (#503559), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Utility used to create fonts.scale files for TrueType
fonts
Installations reported by Popcon: 903
udhcp (#503529), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: very small DHCP client
Installations reported by Popcon: 138
webmagick (#503550), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: create gallery thumbnails for website
Installations reported by Popcon: 180
xcin (#503501), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Chinese input server in X11
Installations reported by Popcon: 68
xfonts-cmex-big5p (#503509), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Big5+ Chinese Mingti bitmap font (by CMEX & DynaLab)
for X11
Installations reported by Popcon: 399
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 118 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 231 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: 40177
ara (#450876), requested 354 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 120
athcool (#278442), requested 1465 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 233
bash-completion (#472468), requested 220 days ago
Description: programmable completion for the bash shell
Installations reported by Popcon: 18113
cvs (#354176), requested 980 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: 22337
darcs (#486192), requested 138 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: 1381
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 369 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: 9177
dpkg (#282283), requested 1440 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: 79298
drscheme (#402589), requested 689 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 352
elvis (#432298), requested 479 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: 380
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 327 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: 2186
flightgear (#487388), requested 131 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 929
gentoo (#422498), requested 543 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 279
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 203 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: 530
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 63 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 115
grub (#248397), requested 1634 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-artwork-grub dfsbuild grub-choose-default
grub-doc replicator startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 72738
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 156 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 38152
imagemagick (#452314), requested 344 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale ascd asymptote
bins cimg-dev docbook2odf drgeo (84 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 24551
ispell-et (#391105), requested 757 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 76
jove (#470185), requested 235 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 285
kvm (#479951), requested 176 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1281
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 791 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 715
mantis (#471094), requested 229 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 74
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 148 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 374
milter-greylist (#470188), requested 235 days ago
Description: GreyList milter for sendmail
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
mol (#436450), requested 450 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: 58
mwavem (#313369), requested 1235 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
nas (#354174), requested 980 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor apollon atlantik
audiooss bibletime camstream celestia-kde (240 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 51459
nn (#470187), requested 235 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 120
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 563 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 (90 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45387
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 751 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph7
libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 openscenegraph osgcal
Installations reported by Popcon: 174
openssl (#332498), requested 1120 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 (582 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 78535
request-tracker3.6 (#469353), requested 240 days ago
Description: Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system
Reverse Depends: request-tracker3.6 rt3.6-rtfm
Installations reported by Popcon: 245
resolvconf (#477723), requested 189 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 7115
rt2400 (#411791), requested 618 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 146
rt2570 (#411790), requested 618 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 224
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 757 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1497
sepolgen (#483641), requested 154 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 15875
sgml-data (#358521), requested 953 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: 47863
smlnj (#428273), requested 508 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: 94
spamassassin (#469124), requested 241 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: 12700
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 219 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 100
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1550 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: 11936
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 844 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1306
torrus (#433223), requested 473 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
unicorn (#345547), requested 1033 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 68
update-inetd (#472470), requested 220 days ago
Description: inetd.conf updater
Reverse Depends: amanda-common bootp cfingerd cups-bsd cvs ebhttpd
ebnetd ebnetd-common efingerd fam (35 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 77965
wine (#479659), requested 178 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: 12120
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 270 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
(28 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7181
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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