Work-needing packages report for Oct 16, 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: 609 (new: 0)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 146 (new: 2)
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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No new packages have been orphaned, but a total of 609 packages are
orphaned. 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:
core++ (#550777), offered 3 days ago (non-free)
Description: C/C++ library for robust computation
Reverse Depends: libcore++-demo libcore++-dev libcore++-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 72
petsc4py (#550458), offered 5 days ago
Description: Python bindings for PETSc libraries
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
144 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:
apt-cross (#540341), requested 69 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 704 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 113
asymptote (#517342), requested 230 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1061
athcool (#278442), requested 1815 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 181
boinc (#511243), requested 280 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1639
cvs (#354176), requested 1330 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: 24371
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 719 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: 12917
dietlibc (#544060), requested 48 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 232
dpkg (#282283), requested 1789 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 (372 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 86791
elvis (#432298), requested 829 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: 393
emdebian-tools (#540333), requested 69 days ago
Description: emdebian crossbuilding tool set
Reverse Depends: emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa emdebian-rootfs
emdebian-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 169
fglrx-driver (#454993), requested 677 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: 1795
flightgear (#487388), requested 481 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 659
gentoo (#422498), requested 893 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 253
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 553 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: 12
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 413 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 109
graphviz (#536245), requested 99 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: 42222
grub2 (#248397), requested 1984 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: 58742
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 506 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 15414
imagemagick (#452314), requested 694 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: 29369
jove (#470185), requested 585 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 380
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 236 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 43
kio-locate (#543298), requested 52 days ago
Description: kio-slave for the locate command
Installations reported by Popcon: 272
koffice (#541691), requested 61 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 3226
kvm (#479951), requested 526 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: kvm-dbg qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 2230
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 236 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15357
libcap2 (#534999), requested 109 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: 59784
logcheck (#539944), requested 72 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4354
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1141 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 625
mdadm (#537993), requested 85 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 11703
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 498 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 472
mol (#436450), requested 800 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 161 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 39272
munin (#535691), requested 103 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: 4994
mutt (#512072), requested 272 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: 72553
mwavem (#313369), requested 1585 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
nas (#354174), requested 1330 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss basket
camstream celestia-kde creox djplay (165 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45577
nn (#470187), requested 585 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 106
openldap (#512360), requested 268 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 (201 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 62635
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 913 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 (87 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41309
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1101 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: 260
openssl (#332498), requested 1470 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 (675 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 86309
phpwiki (#540061), requested 71 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 66
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1039 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 326
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 219 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: 4934
pyro (#530280), requested 145 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 100
quilt (#543541), requested 51 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: 6106
resolvconf (#477723), requested 539 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 9819
sepolgen (#483641), requested 503 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 15870
sgml-data (#358521), requested 1302 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: 46295
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 569 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 125
wine (#479659), requested 527 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: 13686
yasr (#474251), requested 559 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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