Work-needing packages report for Oct 23, 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: 603 (new: 1)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 150 (new: 4)
Total number of packages requested help for: 53 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
acidbase (#551636), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Basic Analysis and Security Engine
Installations reported by Popcon: 152
602 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:
googleearth-package (#551773), offered 2 days ago
Description: utility to automatically build a Debian package of
Google Earth
Installations reported by Popcon: 2671
ifplugd (#551881), offered yesterday
Description: configuration daemon for ethernet devices
Installations reported by Popcon: 803
libdaemon (#551883), offered yesterday
Description: lightweight C library for daemons
Reverse Depends: avahi-autoipd avahi-daemon avahi-dnsconfd btnx
ifplugd libdaemon-dev libdaemon0-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 48757
mapnik (#551281), offered 6 days ago
Description: C++/Python toolkit for developing GIS applications
Reverse Depends: gpsdrive gpsdrive-scripts libmapnik-dev
python-mapnik
Installations reported by Popcon: 570
146 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] lesstif2 (#551853), requested yesterday
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Reverse Depends: clustalx cmucl-clm ddd dx elk geomview gpsd-clients
grace grass gridengine-qmon (50 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15694
apt-cross (#540341), requested 76 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: 296
ara (#450876), requested 711 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 113
asymptote (#517342), requested 237 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1065
athcool (#278442), requested 1822 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 182
boinc (#511243), requested 287 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1639
cvs (#354176), requested 1337 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: 24418
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 726 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies debtree dlocate
haskell-devscripts hg-buildpackage libsbuild-perl mlmmj simple-cdd
Installations reported by Popcon: 12943
dietlibc (#544060), requested 55 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 232
dpkg (#282283), requested 1796 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adacontrol alien alqalam alsa-source am-utils-doc
apt-build apt-cross apt-src aspell-doc asymptote (379 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 86840
elvis (#432298), requested 836 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: 396
emdebian-tools (#540333), requested 76 days ago
Description: emdebian crossbuilding tool set
Reverse Depends: emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa emdebian-rootfs
emdebian-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 169
flightgear (#487388), requested 488 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 654
gentoo (#422498), requested 900 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 250
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 560 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: 13
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 420 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 114
graphviz (#536245), requested 106 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: 42267
grub2 (#248397), requested 1991 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 (2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 58832
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 513 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 15394
imagemagick (#452314), requested 701 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: 29380
jove (#470185), requested 592 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 373
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 243 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 44
kio-locate (#543298), requested 59 days ago
Description: kio-slave for the locate command
Installations reported by Popcon: 272
koffice (#541691), requested 68 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 3231
kvm (#479951), requested 533 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: kvm-dbg qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 2232
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 243 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15345
libcap2 (#534999), requested 116 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: 59873
logcheck (#539944), requested 79 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4357
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1148 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 626
mdadm (#537993), requested 92 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 11711
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 505 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 471
mol (#436450), requested 807 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: 45
mtr (#527482), requested 168 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 39248
munin (#535691), requested 110 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: 5000
mutt (#512072), requested 279 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: 72585
mwavem (#313369), requested 1592 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
nas (#354174), requested 1337 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: 45582
nn (#470187), requested 592 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 106
openldap (#512360), requested 275 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 (203 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 62742
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 920 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 (88 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41303
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1108 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: 255
openssl (#332498), requested 1477 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 3270-common afbackup afbackup-client afflib-tools
aircrack-ng alpine amanda-client amanda-common amanda-server
anon-proxy (677 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 86359
phpwiki (#540061), requested 78 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 67
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1046 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 328
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 226 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: 4949
pyro (#530280), requested 152 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 99
quilt (#543541), requested 58 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Reverse Depends: audacious-plugins-dev batman-adv-source
batmand-gateway-source et131x-source gcc-4.4-source
gpib-modules-source gquilt mozilla-devscripts open-vm-source
quilt-el (2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6114
resolvconf (#477723), requested 546 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 9827
sepolgen (#483641), requested 510 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 15868
sgml-data (#358521), requested 1309 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: 46322
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 576 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 125
wine (#479659), requested 534 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: 13681
yasr (#474251), requested 566 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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