Work-needing packages report for Jul 31, 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: 373 (new: 8)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 125 (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:
etl (#538966), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Extended Class and Template Library
Reverse Depends: libsynfig-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
filterproxy (#538451), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Unmaintained upstream and pretty unused
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
pynetsnmp (#538261), orphaned 6 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 27
pysnmp-se (#538255), orphaned 6 days ago
Reverse Depends: python-twisted-snmp
Installations reported by Popcon: 47
synfig (#538964), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: vector-based 2D animation renderer
Reverse Depends: libsynfig-dev libsynfigapp0 synfig synfig-dbg
synfigstudio
Installations reported by Popcon: 290
synfigstudio (#538965), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: vector-based 2D animation package (graphical user
interface)
Reverse Depends: synfigstudio synfigstudio-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 264
trac-bzr (#538511), orphaned 5 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
wxwidgets2.8 (#539170), orphaned yesterday
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: 13706
365 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:
serpentine (#538409), offered 5 days ago
Description: An application for creating audio CDs
Installations reported by Popcon: 17360
124 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] wxwidgets2.8 (#539170), requested yesterday
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: 13706
apache2 (#470795), requested 504 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: 44675
ara (#450876), requested 627 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 111
asymptote (#517342), requested 153 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 618
athcool (#278442), requested 1738 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 177
boinc (#511243), requested 203 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1614
cvs (#354176), requested 1253 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl
cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsps cvsservice (10
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 20652
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 642 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: 12207
dpkg (#282283), requested 1712 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: alien alqalam alsa-source apt-build apt-cross
apt-src asymptote asymptote-doc autoconf-doc avrdude-doc (253 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 84265
elvis (#432298), requested 752 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: 355
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 600 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: 1847
flightgear (#487388), requested 404 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 657
gentoo (#422498), requested 816 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 246
gnat-4.3 (#475374), requested 476 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: 940
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 336 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 130
graphviz (#536245), requested 22 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: 38796
grub2 (#248397), requested 1907 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: grub-coreboot grub-disk grub-efi grub-efi-amd64
grub-efi-ia32 grub-ieee1275 grub-legacy grub-linuxbios grub-pc grub2
Installations reported by Popcon: 52395
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 429 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 17492
imagemagick (#452314), requested 617 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ascd asymptote bins
calibre cuneiform docbook2odf drgeo (87 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 27729
ispell-et (#391105), requested 1030 days ago
Description: Estonian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 119
jove (#470185), requested 508 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 300
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 159 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 41
kvm (#479951), requested 449 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: kvm-dbg qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1984
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 159 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15015
libcap2 (#534999), requested 32 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: 53400
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1064 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 641
mantis (#471094), requested 502 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 116
mdadm (#537993), requested 8 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 11196
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 421 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 439
mol (#436450), requested 723 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: 50
mtr (#527482), requested 84 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 43348
munin (#535691), requested 26 days ago
Description: packaging help
Reverse Depends: mailping munin-libvirt-plugins munin-plugins-extra
Installations reported by Popcon: 4633
mutt (#512072), requested 195 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: 70369
mwavem (#313369), requested 1508 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
myspell-lv (#536658), requested 18 days ago
Description: Latvian dictionary for Myspell
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
nas (#354174), requested 1253 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss basket
camstream celestia-kde creox djplay (163 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45101
nn (#470187), requested 508 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 105
openldap (#512360), requested 191 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 (185 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 56316
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 836 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: 42292
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1024 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: 157
openssl (#332498), requested 1393 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 (637 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 83760
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 962 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 330
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 142 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: 4196
pyro (#530280), requested 68 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 97
resolvconf (#477723), requested 462 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 9163
rt2400 (#411791), requested 891 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 113
rt2570 (#411790), requested 891 days ago
Description: RT2570 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 174
rus-ispell (#391104), requested 1030 days ago
Description: Russian dictionary for Aspell/Ispell/MySpell
Installations reported by Popcon: 2013
sepolgen (#483641), requested 426 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 16723
sgml-data (#358521), requested 1225 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: 46114
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 492 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 122
wine (#479659), requested 450 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: 13508
wireshark (#520318), requested 134 days ago
Description: network traffic analyzer
Reverse Depends: kismet tshark wireshark
Installations reported by Popcon: 10469
xscreensaver (#521783), requested 122 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: 16212
yasr (#474251), requested 482 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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