Work-needing packages report for May 2, 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: 437 (new: 5)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 96 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 43 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
cvs-buildpackage (#478218), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: A set of Debian package scripts for CVS source trees.
Reverse Depends: cvs-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 2221
greenwich (#477829), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: graphical whois client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 176
metacity-themes (#477832), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Themes for the Gtk2 metacity window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 1152
python-happydoc (#478159), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Python Documentation Extraction Tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 71
tla-tools (#478227), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Utilities to make life with GNU Arch (tla) easier.
Installations reported by Popcon: 284
432 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 96 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 49 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 (148 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 38443
apt-build (#365427), requested 733 days ago
Description: Need new developer(s)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1032
ara (#450876), requested 172 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 126
athcool (#278442), requested 1283 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 254
bash-completion (#472468), requested 38 days ago
Description: programmable completion for the bash shell
Installations reported by Popcon: 4742
cfs (#458061), requested 125 days ago
Description: Cryptographic Filesystem
Installations reported by Popcon: 113
cvs (#354176), requested 798 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: 24033
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 187 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: 7668
dpkg (#282283), requested 1258 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 (102 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 79002
drscheme (#402589), requested 507 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 409
elvis (#432298), requested 297 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: 297
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 145 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: 2417
gentoo (#422498), requested 361 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 287
gnat-4.1 (#475369), requested 21 days ago
Description: help needed with bug triaging
Reverse Depends: adabrowse gnade-bin gnat-4.1 gnat-gps
libadasockets-dev libaunit-dev libaunit1.03 libaws-bin libaws-dev
libaws2.2 (33 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 889
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 21 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: adacontrol asis-programs gnat gnat-4.3 gnat-glade
libasis-dev libasis2007 libgarlic-dev libgnat-4.3 libgnat-4.3-dbg
(11 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 85
grub (#248397), requested 1452 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: dfsbuild grub-choose-default grub-doc replicator
startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 72749
imagemagick (#452314), requested 162 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale ascd asymptote
bins cimg-dev dblatex docbook2odf (80 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 24239
ispell-et (#391105), requested 575 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 58
jove (#470185), requested 53 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 155
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 609 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 760
mantis (#471094), requested 47 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 57
milter-greylist (#470188), requested 53 days ago
Description: GreyList milter for sendmail
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
mol (#436450), requested 268 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: 69
mwavem (#313369), requested 1053 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
nas (#354174), requested 798 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amarok amor apollon ark
atlantik attal audiooss (296 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 54756
nn (#470187), requested 53 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 125
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 381 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: 48734
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 569 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph7
libopenthreads-dev openscenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 196
openssl (#332498), requested 938 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 (566 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 77883
poppler (#423334), requested 356 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 inkscape
kdegraphics-kfile-plugins (22 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 43884
request-tracker3.6 (#469353), requested 58 days ago
Description: Extensible trouble-ticket tracking system
Reverse Depends: request-tracker3.6 rt3.6-rtfm
Installations reported by Popcon: 212
rt2400 (#411791), requested 436 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 160
rt2570 (#411790), requested 436 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 261
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 575 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1494
sgml-data (#358521), requested 771 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: 51335
smlnj (#428273), requested 326 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: 100
spamassassin (#469124), requested 59 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: 13093
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1368 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: 7536
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 662 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1310
torrus (#433223), requested 291 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
unicorn (#345547), requested 851 days ago (non-free)
Description: comaintainer with x86 hardware searched.
Installations reported by Popcon: 75
update-inetd (#472470), requested 38 days ago
Description: inetd.conf updater
Reverse Depends: amanda-common bootp cupsys-bsd cvs ebhttpd ebnetd
ebnetd-common efingerd fam fingerd (27 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 77049
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 88 days ago
Description: help for wxwidgets2.8 is appreciated
Installations reported by Popcon: 7337
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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