Work-needing packages report for May 15, 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: 387 (new: 7)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 110 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 52 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
audiooss (#527935), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: transparent OSS emulation over NAS
Installations reported by Popcon: 185
gliv (#527851), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: image viewer using gdk-pixbuf and OpenGL
Installations reported by Popcon: 349
gsnmp (#527852), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: an SNMP library implementation based on glib and gnet
(development files)
Reverse Depends: libgsnmp0-dev scli
Installations reported by Popcon: 220
gtweakui (#527853), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: A collection of simple dialogs as a front end to GConf
Installations reported by Popcon: 498
libsmi (#527855), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: A library to access SMI MIB information
Reverse Depends: libsmi2-dev python-pysnmp4 snimpy
Installations reported by Popcon: 408
proxychains (#528131), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: proxy chains - redirect connections through proxy
servers
Installations reported by Popcon: 152
scli (#527856), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: a collection of SNMP command line management tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 335
380 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:
dares (#528616), offered today
Description: rescue files from damaged CDs and DVDs
Installations reported by Popcon: 231
gimp-dimage-color (#527579), offered 6 days ago
Description: GIMP plugin to convert Minolta DiMAGE pictures to sRGB
colour space
Installations reported by Popcon: 453
xloadimage (#527575), offered 6 days ago
Description: Graphics file viewer under X11
Reverse Depends: electricsheep
Installations reported by Popcon: 2607
107 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 427 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: 44331
ara (#450876), requested 550 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 114
asymptote (#517342), requested 76 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 439
athcool (#278442), requested 1661 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 208
boinc (#511243), requested 126 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1592
cvs (#354176), requested 1176 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsps cvsreport (11
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 22419
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 565 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: 11737
dpkg (#282283), requested 1635 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 checkinstall (213
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 85477
elvis (#432298), requested 675 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: 400
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 523 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: 2048
flightgear (#487388), requested 327 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 931
gentoo (#422498), requested 739 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 276
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 399 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: 852
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 259 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 133
grub2 (#248397), requested 1830 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: grub grub-coreboot grub-disk grub-efi grub-ieee1275
grub-linuxbios grub-of grub-pc grub2
Installations reported by Popcon: 47310
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 352 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 22069
imagemagick (#452314), requested 540 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale ascd asymptote
bins calibre docbook2odf drgeo (76 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 27693
ispell-et (#391105), requested 953 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 147
jove (#470185), requested 431 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 352
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 82 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 29
kvm (#479951), requested 372 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1905
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 82 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 15180
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 987 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 675
mantis (#471094), requested 425 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 114
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 344 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 452
mol (#436450), requested 646 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: 54
mtr (#527482), requested 7 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 50480
mutt (#512072), requested 118 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: 71768
mwavem (#313369), requested 1431 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
nas (#354174), requested 1176 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss bibletime
camstream celestia-kde compizconfig-backend-kconfig creox (169 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 48393
nn (#470187), requested 431 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 111
openldap (#512360), requested 114 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 (181 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 51355
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 759 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 (102 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 44733
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 947 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph55
libopenthreads-dev openscenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 167
openssl (#332498), requested 1316 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 (621 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 84885
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 885 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 323
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 65 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: 7177
resolvconf (#477723), requested 385 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 9272
rt2400 (#411791), requested 814 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 129
rt2570 (#411790), requested 814 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 191
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 953 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 2017
sepolgen (#483641), requested 349 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 18409
sgml-data (#358521), requested 1148 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: 48436
smlnj (#428273), requested 704 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: 131
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 415 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1746 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 (12 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 14244
svn-buildpackage (#377467), requested 1040 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1537
wine (#479659), requested 373 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: 14226
wireshark (#520318), requested 57 days ago
Description: network traffic analyzer
Reverse Depends: kismet tshark wireshark
Installations reported by Popcon: 10636
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 466 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 (47
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13047
xscreensaver (#521783), requested 45 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: 16750
yasr (#474251), requested 405 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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