Work-needing packages report for Jul 24, 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: 386 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 132 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requested help for: 55 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
kallery (#537669), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: image gallery creator for kde
Reverse Depends: kallery kallery-data
Installations reported by Popcon: 232
sysvconfig (#537966), orphaned yesterday
Description: A text menu based utility for configuring init script
links
Installations reported by Popcon: 1042
384 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:
trac-mercurial (#538076), offered yesterday
Description: Mercurial version control backend for Trac
Installations reported by Popcon: 81
131 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:
[NEW] mdadm (#537993), requested yesterday
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 11185
apache2 (#470795), requested 497 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 (163 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 44670
ara (#450876), requested 620 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 111
asymptote (#517342), requested 146 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 592
athcool (#278442), requested 1731 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 179
boinc (#511243), requested 196 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1614
cvs (#354176), requested 1246 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: 20699
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 635 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: 12216
dpkg (#282283), requested 1705 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: alien alsa-source apt-build apt-cross apt-src
asymptote asymptote-doc avrdude-doc backuppc biblatex (247 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 84226
elvis (#432298), requested 745 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: 356
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 593 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: 1855
flightgear (#487388), requested 397 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 656
gentoo (#422498), requested 809 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 246
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 469 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 (49 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 942
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 329 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 129
graphviz (#536245), requested 15 days ago
Description: rich set of graph drawing tools
Reverse Depends: anjuta dot2tex frama-c ggobi graphviz graphviz-dev
lanmap libdeps-renderer-dot-perl libgraphviz-dev libgraphviz-perl
(17 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 38764
grub2 (#248397), requested 1900 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: grub grub-coreboot grub-disk grub-efi
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-ia32 grub-ieee1275 grub-legacy
grub-linuxbios grub-pc (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 52315
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 422 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 17535
imagemagick (#452314), requested 610 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ascd asymptote bins
calibre cuneiform docbook2odf drgeo (86 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 27732
ispell-et (#391105), requested 1023 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 121
jove (#470185), requested 501 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 302
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 152 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 41
kvm (#479951), requested 442 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: kvm-dbg qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1996
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 152 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15005
libcap2 (#534999), requested 25 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: apache2-mpm-itk asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bind9
bind9-host bind9utils dnsutils hercules libbind9-50 (61 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 53322
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1057 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 641
mantis (#471094), requested 495 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 116
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 414 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 436
mol (#436450), requested 716 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: 51
mtr (#527482), requested 77 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 43433
munin (#535691), requested 19 days ago
Description: packaging help
Reverse Depends: mailping munin-libvirt-plugins munin-plugins-extra
Installations reported by Popcon: 4626
mutt (#512072), requested 188 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: 70342
mwavem (#313369), requested 1501 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
myspell-lv (#536658), requested 11 days ago
Description: Latvian dictionary for Myspell
Installations reported by Popcon: 33
nas (#354174), requested 1246 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss basket
camstream celestia-kde creox djplay (164 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45137
nn (#470187), requested 501 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 105
openldap (#512360), requested 184 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: adtool alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
apache2.2-bin asterisk asterisk-h323 asterisk-oh323 audispd-plugins
autofs-ldap (184 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 56231
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 829 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 (103 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 42277
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1017 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: flightgear libopenscenegraph-dev
libopenscenegraph56 libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 openscenegraph
osgcal simgear-dev simgear1.9.1
Installations reported by Popcon: 159
openssl (#332498), requested 1386 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 (642 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 83719
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 955 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 326
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 135 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: 4188
pyro (#530280), requested 61 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 97
resolvconf (#477723), requested 455 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 9168
rt2400 (#411791), requested 884 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 116
rt2570 (#411790), requested 884 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 178
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 1023 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 2012
sepolgen (#483641), requested 419 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 16756
sgml-data (#358521), requested 1218 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: 46072
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 485 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 122
wine (#479659), requested 443 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: 13531
wireshark (#520318), requested 127 days ago
Description: network traffic analyzer
Reverse Depends: kismet tshark wireshark
Installations reported by Popcon: 10482
wxwidgets2.8 (#463807), requested 536 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 (50
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13708
xscreensaver (#521783), requested 115 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: 16217
yasr (#474251), requested 475 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 59
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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