Work-needing packages report for Sep 11, 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: 495 (new: 0)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 161 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 56 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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No new packages have been orphaned, but a total of 495 packages are
orphaned. See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
for a complete list.
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No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 161 packages
are awaiting adoption. See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage
for a complete list.
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For the following packages help is requested:
apt-cross (#540341), requested 34 days ago
Description: retrieve, build and install libraries for
cross-compiling
Reverse Depends: apt-cross emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa
emdebian-rootfs emdebian-tools libemdebian-tools-perl
Installations reported by Popcon: 286
ara (#450876), requested 669 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 117
asymptote (#517342), requested 195 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 987
athcool (#278442), requested 1780 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 179
boinc (#511243), requested 245 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1615
cvs (#354176), requested 1295 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: 23151
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 684 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies dlocate haskell-devscripts
hg-buildpackage libsbuild-perl mlmmj simple-cdd
Installations reported by Popcon: 12704
dietlibc (#544060), requested 13 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 224
dpkg (#282283), requested 1754 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: alien alqalam alsa-source apt-build apt-cross
apt-src aspell-doc asymptote asymptote-doc autoconf-doc (321 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 84781
elvis (#432298), requested 794 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: 394
emdebian-tools (#540333), requested 34 days ago
Description: emdebian crossbuilding tool set
Reverse Depends: emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa emdebian-rootfs
emdebian-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 165
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 642 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: 1805
flightgear (#487388), requested 446 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 681
gentoo (#422498), requested 858 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 252
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 518 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: gnat-4.4 libgnat-4.4 libgnat-4.4-dbg libgnatprj4.4
libgnatprj4.4-dbg libgnatprj4.4-dev libgnatvsn4.4 libgnatvsn4.4-dbg
libgnatvsn4.4-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 378 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 122
graphviz (#536245), requested 64 days ago
Description: rich set of graph drawing tools
Reverse Depends: anjuta dot2tex frama-c ggobi graphviz graphviz-dev
libdeps-renderer-dot-perl libgraphviz-dev libgraphviz-perl
libgv-guile (16 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 40357
grub2 (#248397), requested 1949 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: 55514
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 471 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 16053
imagemagick (#452314), requested 659 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ascd asymptote bins
calibre cuneiform docbook2odf drgeo (89 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 28515
jove (#470185), requested 550 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 325
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 201 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 41
kio-locate (#543298), requested 17 days ago
Description: kio-slave for the locate command
Installations reported by Popcon: 274
koffice (#541691), requested 26 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 3372
kvm (#479951), requested 491 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: kvm-dbg qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 2098
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 201 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15083
libcap2 (#534999), requested 74 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: apache2.2-bin asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bind9
bind9-host bind9utils dnsutils hercules libbind9-50 (61 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 56539
logcheck (#539944), requested 37 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4255
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1106 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 627
mantis (#471094), requested 544 days ago
Description: web-based bug tracking system
Installations reported by Popcon: 131
mdadm (#537993), requested 50 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 11483
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 463 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 470
mol (#436450), requested 765 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: 47
mtr (#527482), requested 126 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 40555
munin (#535691), requested 68 days ago
Description: help packaging 1.3 to experimental and report bugs
upstream
Reverse Depends: mailping munin-libvirt-plugins munin-plugins-extra
Installations reported by Popcon: 4813
mutt (#512072), requested 237 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: 70721
mwavem (#313369), requested 1550 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
nas (#354174), requested 1295 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: 44863
nn (#470187), requested 550 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
openldap (#512360), requested 233 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 (195 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 59395
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 878 days ago
Description: OpenOffice.org Office suite
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-common brdesktop-gnome broffice.org
cli-uno-bridge docvert-openoffice.org libjodconverter-java
libuno-cli-cppuhelper1.0-cil libuno-cli-oootypes1.0-cil
libuno-cli-ure1.0-cil libuno-cli-uretypes1.0-cil (95 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41700
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1066 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: 215
openssl (#332498), requested 1435 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 (654 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 84317
phpwiki (#540061), requested 36 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 66
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1004 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 326
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 184 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: 4651
pyro (#530280), requested 110 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
quilt (#543541), requested 16 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Reverse Depends: audacious-plugins-dev batman-adv-source
batmand-gateway-source broadcom-sta-source et131x-source
gcc-4.4-source gpib-modules-source gquilt mozilla-devscripts
open-vm-source (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 5880
resolvconf (#477723), requested 504 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 9572
rt2400 (#411791), requested 933 days ago
Description: RT2400 wireless network drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
sepolgen (#483641), requested 468 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 16139
sgml-data (#358521), requested 1267 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: 45561
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 534 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 131
wine (#479659), requested 492 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: 13458
xscreensaver (#521783), requested 164 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: 16048
yasr (#474251), requested 524 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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