Work-needing packages report for Nov 13, 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: 683 (new: 20)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 147 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 53 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
drbdlinks (#555204), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Manages symlinks into a shared DRBD partition
Installations reported by Popcon: 67
gnats (#555823), orphaned yesterday
Description: The GNU problem report management system (client tools)
Reverse Depends: gnats
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
gnatsweb (#555833), orphaned yesterday
Description: Web interface to GNU GNATS
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
libdiscid (#555893), orphaned today
Description: Library for creating MusicBrainz DiscIDs
Reverse Depends: libdiscid0-dev libmusicbrainz3-6 picard
python-musicbrainz2 xmms2-plugin-cdda
Installations reported by Popcon: 3042
libmng (#555290), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Multiple-image Network Graphics library
Reverse Depends: crystalspace gimp gwenview libcegui-mk2-dev
libdevil1c2 libmng-dev libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev libqtgui4 libsynfig0
(2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 52396
libmusicbrainz-2.1 (#555895), orphaned today
Reverse Depends: audacious-plugins-dev cynthiune.app ears gmerlin
goobox gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad k3b kscd libgmerlin0 libkcddb4 (9
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45004
p2c (#554723), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Pascal to C translator
Installations reported by Popcon: 105
sawfish-pager (#555918), orphaned today
sitemap (#555112), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Makes an HTML site map from meta tags from other
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
specimen (#555190), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: a MIDI controllable audio sampler for GNU/Linux systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 98
wmgtemp (#554724), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Temperature sensor dockapp for Window Maker
Installations reported by Popcon: 191
wmmount (#554725), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: miniature mount utility and free space monitoring tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 150
xdemorse (#554899), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: GTK+ Morse Code Decoding Software
Installations reported by Popcon: 22
xdx (#554900), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: DX-cluster tcp/ip client for amateur radio
Installations reported by Popcon: 37
xlog (#555143), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: GTK+ Logging program for Hamradio Operators
Reverse Depends: xlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 72
xnec2c (#555145), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: calculate and display radio antenna properties
Installations reported by Popcon: 43
xsol (#554721), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: a solitaire game for the X Windows system
Installations reported by Popcon: 181
xtlf (#555146), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: single user (single node) version of tlf
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
xwota (#555147), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: GTK client to the WOTA Database
Installations reported by Popcon: 19
yagiuda (#555148), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: software to analyse performance of Yagi-Uda antennas
Installations reported by Popcon: 48
663 older packages have been omitted from this listing, 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 147 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 97 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: 295
ara (#450876), requested 732 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 111
asymptote (#517342), requested 258 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1110
athcool (#278442), requested 1843 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 167
boinc (#511243), requested 308 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1648
cvs (#354176), requested 1358 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: 24913
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 747 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies debtree dlocate
haskell-devscripts hg-buildpackage libsbuild-perl
linux-patch-debianlogo mlmmj simple-cdd
Installations reported by Popcon: 13224
dietlibc (#544060), requested 76 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 233
dpkg (#282283), requested 1817 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adacontrol advi advi-examples alien alqalam
alsa-source am-utils-doc apt-build apt-cross apt-src (411 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 88633
elvis (#432298), requested 857 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: 399
emdebian-tools (#540333), requested 97 days ago
Description: emdebian crossbuilding tool set
Reverse Depends: emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa emdebian-rootfs
emdebian-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 170
flightgear (#487388), requested 509 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 688
fluxbox (#552328), requested 18 days ago
Description: Highly configurable and low resource X11 Window manager
Reverse Depends: bbmail
Installations reported by Popcon: 3191
gentoo (#422498), requested 921 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 230
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 581 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: gnat 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: 31
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 441 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 129
graphviz (#536245), requested 127 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: 44023
grub2 (#248397), requested 2012 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: 61670
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 534 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 14871
imagemagick (#452314), requested 722 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: 30052
jove (#470185), requested 613 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 425
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 264 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
koffice (#541691), requested 89 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 3199
kvm (#479951), requested 554 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: kvm-dbg qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 2313
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 22 days ago
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: 15972
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 264 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15649
libcap2 (#534999), requested 137 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: 62664
logcheck (#539944), requested 100 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4413
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1169 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 636
lzma (#553707), requested 11 days ago
Description: future of Debian squashfs-lzma
Reverse Depends: dpkg dpkg-dev dtrx libcomplearn-mod-lzmax
locales-all lzma-source vsag
Installations reported by Popcon: 65994
mdadm (#537993), requested 113 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 11729
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 526 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 485
mol (#436450), requested 828 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: 44
mtr (#527482), requested 189 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 38095
munin (#535691), requested 131 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: 5159
mutt (#512072), requested 300 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: 74274
mwavem (#313369), requested 1613 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
nas (#354174), requested 1358 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: 46320
nn (#470187), requested 613 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 115
openldap (#512360), requested 296 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 (202 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 65588
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 941 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: 42256
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1129 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: 276
openssl (#332498), requested 1498 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 (674 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 88177
phpwiki (#540061), requested 99 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 68
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1067 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 348
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 247 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: 5127
pyro (#530280), requested 173 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 103
quilt (#543541), requested 79 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Reverse Depends: audacious-plugins-dev batmand-gateway-source
et131x-source gcc-4.4-source gpib-modules-source gquilt
mozilla-devscripts open-vm-source quilt-el sl-modem-source
Installations reported by Popcon: 6302
resolvconf (#477723), requested 567 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 10118
sepolgen (#483641), requested 531 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 15636
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 597 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 127
wine (#479659), requested 555 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: 13921
yasr (#474251), requested 587 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 61
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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