Work-needing packages report for May 22, 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: 18)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 135 (new: 27)
Total number of packages requested help for: 51 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
abcde (#529695), orphaned yesterday
Description: A Better CD Encoder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1738
aiccu (#529185), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: SixXS Automatic IPv6 Connectivity Client Utility
Installations reported by Popcon: 215
antiword (#529559), orphaned yesterday
Description: Converts MS Word files to text and ps
Reverse Depends: liblouisxml-bin
Installations reported by Popcon: 2375
crystalcursors (#529434), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: X11 mouse theme with the crystal look&feel
Installations reported by Popcon: 1083
gnome-swallow (#529686), orphaned yesterday
Description: meta-applet to embed any application in the GNOME panel
Installations reported by Popcon: 355
gtk-qt-engine (#529433), orphaned 2 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 1895
gtk2-engines-qtcurve (#529441), orphaned 2 days ago
Reverse Depends: qtcurve
Installations reported by Popcon: 1481
intlfonts (#529348), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: International fonts for X
Installations reported by Popcon: 9967
kde-icons-crystalproject (#529438), orphaned 2 days ago
Reverse Depends: kde-icons-crystalclear
Installations reported by Popcon: 1008
kde-icons-nuovext (#529439), orphaned 2 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 1008
kde-icons-nuvola (#529443), orphaned 2 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 1101
kde-kdm-themes (#529444), orphaned 2 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 1791
kde-style-lipstik (#529445), orphaned 2 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 1044
kde-style-qtcurve (#529442), orphaned 2 days ago
Reverse Depends: qtcurve
Installations reported by Popcon: 1404
kde-wallpapers-lineartreworked (#529446), orphaned 2 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 733
lsparisc (#529379), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: list all PA-RISC devices currently available on the
system
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
pmidi (#528926), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: A command line midi player for ALSA
Reverse Depends: songwrite
Installations reported by Popcon: 861
rpm (#529558), orphaned yesterday
Description: Red Hat package manager
Reverse Depends: alien apt-rpm-repository ceve convirt createrepo
dtrx fossology-agents fossology-agents-single libapt-rpm-pkg-dev
libapt-rpm-pkg2 (16 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 19779
369 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:
dact (#529602), offered yesterday
Description: Multi-algorithm compression
Installations reported by Popcon: 132
gngb (#529603), offered yesterday
Description: a Color Gameboy emulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 132
intlfonts (#529348), offered 3 days ago
Description: International fonts for X
Installations reported by Popcon: 9967
libphp-pclzip (#529666), offered yesterday
Description: zip archive manager class for PHP
Reverse Depends: docvert
Installations reported by Popcon: 271
libphp-phplayersmenu (#529668), offered yesterday
Description: hierarchical menu system class for PHP
Reverse Depends: ipplan
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
libphp-phpsniff (#529669), offered yesterday
Description: a HTTP_USER_AGENT Client Sniffer for PHP
Installations reported by Popcon: 41
maildirsync (#529670), offered yesterday
Description: simple and efficient Maildir synchronisation utility
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
obexpushd (#529671), offered yesterday
Description: program for receiving files via Bluetooth or IRDA
Installations reported by Popcon: 937
php-benchmark (#529672), offered yesterday
Description: Framework to benchmark PHP scripts or function calls
Reverse Depends: phpunit
Installations reported by Popcon: 269
php-cache (#529673), offered yesterday
Description: framework for caching of arbitrary data
Installations reported by Popcon: 454
php-html-template-it (#529674), offered yesterday
Description: PEAR HTML Template IT
Installations reported by Popcon: 104
php-log (#529676), offered yesterday
Description: Log module for PEAR
Reverse Depends: egroupware-core horde3
Installations reported by Popcon: 1427
php-memcache (#529677), offered yesterday
Description: memcache extension module for PHP
Installations reported by Popcon: 1716
php-net-checkip (#529683), offered yesterday
Description: check the syntax of IPv4 addresses
Reverse Depends: serendipity
Installations reported by Popcon: 132
php-net-dime (#529680), offered yesterday
Description: class that implements DIME encoding
Installations reported by Popcon: 528
php-net-ftp (#529684), offered yesterday
Description: provides an OO interface to the PHP FTP functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 446
php-net-imap (#529679), offered yesterday
Description: PHP PEAR module implementing IMAP protocol
Reverse Depends: php-kolab php-kolab-filter php-kolab-freebusy
Installations reported by Popcon: 359
php-net-ldap (#529692), offered yesterday
Description: a OO interface for searching and manipulating
LDAP-entries
Reverse Depends: atmailopen kolab-webadmin
Installations reported by Popcon: 188
php-net-sieve (#529688), offered yesterday
Description: net_sieve module for PEAR
Reverse Depends: kolab-webadmin
Installations reported by Popcon: 216
php-services-weather (#529687), offered yesterday
Description: acts as an interface to various online
weather-services
Installations reported by Popcon: 429
php-soap (#529689), offered yesterday
Description: a SOAP Client/Server class for PHP
Installations reported by Popcon: 664
php-xml-serializer (#529681), offered yesterday
Description: wiss-army knife for reading and writing XML files
Installations reported by Popcon: 580
php-xml-util (#529694), offered yesterday
Description: a XML utility for php-pear
Reverse Depends: php-xml-rss php-xml-serializer
Installations reported by Popcon: 684
stardict-tools (#529691), offered yesterday
Description: The dictionary conversion tools of stardict
Installations reported by Popcon: 272
visualboyadvance (#529682), offered yesterday
Description: a full featured Game Boy Advance emulator
Reverse Depends: visualboyadvance-gtk
Installations reported by Popcon: 386
xbanner (#529685), offered yesterday
Description: Beautify your X login screen
Installations reported by Popcon: 142
xfe (#529693), offered yesterday
Description: lightweight file manager for X11
Installations reported by Popcon: 492
108 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 434 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 (162 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 44319
ara (#450876), requested 557 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 116
asymptote (#517342), requested 83 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 445
athcool (#278442), requested 1668 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 208
boinc (#511243), requested 133 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1579
cvs (#354176), requested 1183 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: 22237
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 572 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 libsbuild-perl mlmmj
simple-cdd
Installations reported by Popcon: 11711
dpkg (#282283), requested 1642 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 (214
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 85280
elvis (#432298), requested 682 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: 402
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 530 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: 2025
flightgear (#487388), requested 334 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 935
gentoo (#422498), requested 746 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 272
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 406 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: 874
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 266 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 133
grub2 (#248397), requested 1837 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: 47800
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 359 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 21593
imagemagick (#452314), requested 547 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ale ascd asymptote
bins calibre docbook2odf drgeo (80 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 27580
ispell-et (#391105), requested 960 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 145
jove (#470185), requested 438 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 354
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 89 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 30
kvm (#479951), requested 379 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1910
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 89 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 15148
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 994 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 675
mantis (#471094), requested 432 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 118
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 351 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 448
mol (#436450), requested 653 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: 53
mtr (#527482), requested 14 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 49750
mutt (#512072), requested 125 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: 71538
mwavem (#313369), requested 1438 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
nas (#354174), requested 1183 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss bibletime
camstream celestia-kde compizconfig-backend-kconfig creox (167 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 48055
nn (#470187), requested 438 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 106
openldap (#512360), requested 121 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: adtool alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
apache2.2-common asterisk asterisk-h323 asterisk-oh323
audispd-plugins autofs-ldap (182 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 51830
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 766 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: 44415
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 954 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph55
libopenthreads-dev openscenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 158
openssl (#332498), requested 1323 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 (616 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 84705
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 892 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 330
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 72 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: 7160
resolvconf (#477723), requested 392 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 9165
rt2400 (#411791), requested 821 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 125
rt2570 (#411790), requested 821 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 185
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 960 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 1985
sepolgen (#483641), requested 356 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 18265
sgml-data (#358521), requested 1155 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: 48102
smlnj (#428273), requested 711 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: 134
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 422 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 119
stlport4.6 (#263052), requested 1753 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: 13833
wine (#479659), requested 380 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 (11 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 14193
wireshark (#520318), requested 64 days ago
Description: network traffic analyzer
Reverse Depends: kismet tshark wireshark
Installations reported by Popcon: 10599
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 473 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 (48
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13097
xscreensaver (#521783), requested 52 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: 16701
yasr (#474251), requested 412 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 64
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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