Work-needing packages report for May 1, 2009
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: 412 (new: 11)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 114 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requested help for: 53 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
9menu (#525488), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Creates X menus from the shell
Installations reported by Popcon: 400
aap (#525446), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: make-like "expert system" for building software
Installations reported by Popcon: 82
autotrace (#525919), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: bitmap to vector graphics converter
Reverse Depends: autotrace libautotrace-dev mftrace
Installations reported by Popcon: 870
bibclean (#525922), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: pretty-printer for BibTeX databases
Installations reported by Popcon: 208
bibtool (#525921), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: tool for BibTeX database manipulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 839
laptop-net (#525744), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Automatically adapt laptop Ethernet
Installations reported by Popcon: 176
libpfm3-3.2 (#525745), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Performance Monitor Unit (PMU) -- run-time libraries
Reverse Depends: libpfm3-3.2-dev pfmon qprof
Installations reported by Popcon: 99
oprofile (#525737), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: system-wide profiler for Linux systems
Reverse Depends: oprofile-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 615
pfmon (#525748), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Tool for using CPU Performance Monitoring Units (PMUs)
Installations reported by Popcon: 70
php-elisp (#525947), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Emacs support for php files
Installations reported by Popcon: 998
xcftools (#525920), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: command-line tools for extracting data for XCF files
Installations reported by Popcon: 113
401 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:
libmcal (#525950), offered 2 days ago
Description: calendary library
Reverse Depends: libmcal libmcal0-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 572
113 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 413 days ago
Description: Co-maintainer wanted
Reverse Depends: ampache apache2 apache2-dbg apache2-mpm-event
apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-mpm-worker
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-suexec apache2-suexec-custom (159 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 44138
ara (#450876), requested 536 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 118
asymptote (#517342), requested 62 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 408
athcool (#278442), requested 1647 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 211
boinc (#511243), requested 112 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1596
cvs (#354176), requested 1162 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: 22531
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 551 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies dlocate haskell-devscripts
hg-buildpackage ia32-archive ia32-libs-tools mlmmj sbuild simple-cdd
Installations reported by Popcon: 11583
dpkg (#282283), requested 1621 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: alien alsa-source apt-build apt-cross apt-src
backuppc biblatex-dw build-essential bzr-builddeb cacao-oj6-dbg (217
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 85391
drscheme (#402589), requested 871 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme minlog proofgeneral-minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 304
elvis (#432298), requested 661 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: 409
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 509 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: 2075
flightgear (#487388), requested 313 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 933
gentoo (#422498), requested 725 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 262
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 385 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 libahven16 (47 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 828
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 245 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 144
grub (#248397), requested 1816 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-artwork-grub dfsbuild grub-choose-default
grub-doc replicator startupmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 77757
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 338 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 23019
imagemagick (#452314), requested 526 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale ascd asymptote
bins calibre docbook2odf drgeo (72 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 27536
irssi-scripts (#522279), requested 28 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1138
ispell-et (#391105), requested 939 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 102
jove (#470185), requested 417 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 316
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 68 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
kvm (#479951), requested 358 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1840
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 68 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 15326
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 973 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 682
mantis (#471094), requested 411 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 111
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 330 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 457
mol (#436450), requested 632 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: 57
mutt (#512072), requested 104 days ago
Description: text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and
threading
Reverse Depends: debreaper metche mutt-dbg mutt-patched muttprofile
Installations reported by Popcon: 71749
mwavem (#313369), requested 1417 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 2
nas (#354174), requested 1162 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss bibletime
camstream celestia-kde compizconfig-backend-kconfig creox (177 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 48687
nn (#470187), requested 417 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
openldap (#512360), requested 100 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: adtool alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
apache2.2-common asterisk-h323 asterisk-oh323 audispd-plugins
autofs-ldap autofs5-ldap (182 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 49934
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 745 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-oootypes1.0-cil libuno-cli-ure1.0-cil
libuno-cli-uretypes1.0-cil mozilla-openoffice.org (95 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45067
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 933 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph55
libopenthreads-dev openscenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 160
openssl (#332498), requested 1302 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 (610 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 84766
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 51 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Reverse Depends: dtc-common gadmin-proftpd proftpd-dev
proftpd-mod-ldap proftpd-mod-mysql proftpd-mod-odbc
proftpd-mod-pgsql proftpd-mod-sqlite
Installations reported by Popcon: 3453
resolvconf (#477723), requested 371 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 9233
rt2400 (#411791), requested 800 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 129
rt2570 (#411790), requested 800 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 202
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 939 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 2000
sepolgen (#483641), requested 335 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 18648
sgml-data (#358521), requested 1134 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: 48837
smlnj (#428273), requested 690 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: 119
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 401 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1732 days ago
Description: STLport C++ class library
Reverse Depends: libstlport4.6-dev openoffice.org-base
openoffice.org-base-core openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core
openoffice.org-dev openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-evolution
openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-gnome (11 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 22349
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 1026 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1482
torrus (#433223), requested 655 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases
Reverse Depends: torrus-apache torrus-apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 19
wine (#479659), requested 359 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: 14165
wireshark (#520318), requested 43 days ago
Description: network traffic analyzer
Reverse Depends: kismet tshark wireshark
Installations reported by Popcon: 10632
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 452 days ago
Description: help for wxwidgets2.8 is appreciated
Reverse Depends: amule amule-daemon amule-utils amule-utils-gui
audacity bibus bitpim bittornado-gui boinc-manager crystalspace (46
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12717
xscreensaver (#521783), requested 31 days ago
Description: Automatic screensaver for X (looking for
co-maintainers)
Reverse Depends: kscreensaver-xsavers xscreensaver
xscreensaver-data-extra xscreensaver-gl-extra
Installations reported by Popcon: 16873
yasr (#474251), requested 391 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 62
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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