Work-needing packages report for Nov 6, 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: 670 (new: 64)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 154 (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:
antennavis (#553390), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: antenna visualization software
Installations reported by Popcon: 76
bbkeys (#553347), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: A key-grabber for any NETWM/EMWH-compliant window
manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 205
blackbox-themes (#553348), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Themes for the Blackbox Windowmanager
Installations reported by Popcon: 221
cabber (#553902), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Easy and basic jabber console client
Installations reported by Popcon: 112
callgit (#553391), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: lookup callsigns at qrz.com
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
cd5 (#554055), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Compute checksum of individual track on CD-ROMS
Installations reported by Popcon: 37
cdtool (#554451), orphaned yesterday
Installations reported by Popcon: 996
colormake (#554004), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: simple wrapper around make to colorize output
Installations reported by Popcon: 556
colrconv (#553393), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Convers client with curses color support
Installations reported by Popcon: 19
colrdx (#553395), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: DX-cluster client with curses color support
Installations reported by Popcon: 27
cwdaemon (#553396), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: morse daemon for the parallel or serial port
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
cwirc (#553397), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: X-Chat morse plugin
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
dangen (#554249), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: shoot 'em up game where accurate shooting matters
Installations reported by Popcon: 133
flex-old (#553704), orphaned 4 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 223
gcb (#553654), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Utility to calculate long and short path to a location
Installations reported by Popcon: 44
ghextris (#553486), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: A Tetris-like game on a hexagonal grid
Installations reported by Popcon: 166
giftoxic (#553349), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: GTK2 based GUI for the giFT filesharing system
Installations reported by Popcon: 114
glfer (#553655), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: program for reception and transmission of QRSS/DFCW
signals
Installations reported by Popcon: 33
gmanedit (#553984), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: GTK+ man pages editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 101
googlizer (#554674), orphaned today
Description: utility to search Google via your GNOME menu/panel
Installations reported by Popcon: 293
gpsk31 (#553657), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: A gtk based psk31
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
grandfatherclock (#554250), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: a clock that tolls time acoustically
Installations reported by Popcon: 112
grig (#553658), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: graphical user interface to the Ham Radio Control
Libraries
Installations reported by Popcon: 49
gtk2-engines-cleanice (#553506), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: CleanIce themes for GTK+ 2.x
Installations reported by Popcon: 1057
gtk2-engines-magicchicken (#553505), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Magic Chicken themes for GTK+ 2.x
Installations reported by Popcon: 838
happydigger (#553982), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Program for cataloging for archaeological finds
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
ibp (#553985), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Viewer for the International Beacon Project
Installations reported by Popcon: 33
libpano12 (#554056), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: panorama tools library development files
Reverse Depends: libpano12-bin libpano12-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 409
makeztxt (#553459), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Create zTXT databases from ASCII files to read them in
a Palm
Installations reported by Popcon: 46
marote (#553989), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Rig Control Program for the Elecraft K2
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
minimuf (#553990), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: program to predict high frequency propagation data
Installations reported by Popcon: 29
morse (#553991), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: 'Morse Classic' is a morse-code training program for
aspiring radio hams
Installations reported by Popcon: 124
mpatrol (#554251), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: A library for debugging memory allocations
Installations reported by Popcon: 28
nec2c (#553996), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: translation of the NEC2 FORTRAN source code to the C
language
Installations reported by Popcon: 49
orpheus (#554076), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: light-weight text mode menu- and window-driven audio
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 59
paq8l (#553994), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: open source file compressor and archiver
Reverse Depends: pskmail
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
password-gorilla (#553929), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: a cross-platform password manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 176
pingpong (#553995), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Free server for Amateur Radio convers
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
portsentry (#553350), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Portscan detection daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 423
proofgeneral (#554263), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: generic interface for proof assistants - common package
Reverse Depends: proofgeneral-coq proofgeneral-minlog
proofgeneral-misc
Installations reported by Popcon: 271
pskmail (#553992), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: client for HF narrow band mail delivery system for
amateur radio
Installations reported by Popcon: 14
qrq (#554100), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: high speed morse trainer, similar to DL4MM's Rufz
Installations reported by Popcon: 42
razzle (#554098), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: constantly changing 3D stereogram generator
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
rnv (#554002), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Relax NG Compact Syntax validator
Installations reported by Popcon: 44
saydate (#554252), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: speaks the current date through your sound card
Installations reported by Popcon: 159
saytime (#554253), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: speaks the current time through your sound card
Installations reported by Popcon: 252
see (#554129), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: lightweight text file and man page viewer
Installations reported by Popcon: 22
sgmltools-lite (#554254), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: convert DocBook SGML source into HTML using DSSSL
Reverse Depends: translate-docformat
Installations reported by Popcon: 814
shhmsg (#554255), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: library for displaying messages - runtime
Reverse Depends: libshhmsg1-dev snake4
Installations reported by Popcon: 190
shhopt (#554256), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Command line option parser - runtime
Reverse Depends: libshhopt1-dev snake4
Installations reported by Popcon: 189
spider (#553521), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: A two deck solitaire game for the X Window System
Installations reported by Popcon: 258
tenmado (#554257), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: hard-core shoot 'em up game in blue-or-red world
Installations reported by Popcon: 74
tlf (#554133), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Console mode general purpose CW keyer, logging- and
contest program
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
twclock (#554130), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Clock program for hamradio operators
Installations reported by Popcon: 72
twlog (#554131), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Logging program for hamradio operators
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
twpsk (#554132), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Soundcard-based X program for operating PSK31
Installations reported by Popcon: 30
unixcw (#554134), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Shared library for Morse programs
Reverse Depends: cw cwcp unixcw-dev xcwcp
Installations reported by Popcon: 159
w-bassman (#554259), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: an alternative "w" command
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
winkeydaemon (#554135), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: daemon which will operate the winkey keyer
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
xbae (#553659), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Xbae Matrix Widget libraries
Reverse Depends: libgeant321-2-gfortran libpawlib-lesstif3-dev
libpawlib-lesstif3-gfortran libxbae-dev paw++ twlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 447
xchain (#554285), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: A strategy game for 2-4 players
Installations reported by Popcon: 58
xrootconsole (#554099), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Fancy X console display
Installations reported by Popcon: 124
xsoldier (#554262), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: shoot 'em up game with the "not shooting" bonus
Installations reported by Popcon: 341
zblast (#554265), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: sound files for zblast game
Reverse Depends: zblast-svgalib zblast-x11
Installations reported by Popcon: 165
606 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:
ipband (#553356), offered 6 days ago
Description: daemon for subnet bandwidth monitoring with reporting
via email
Installations reported by Popcon: 44
isoqlog (#553357), offered 6 days ago
Description: Mail Transport Agent log analysis program
Installations reported by Popcon: 126
vm (#553425), offered 5 days ago
Description: A mail user agent for Emacs.
Reverse Depends: vm-bonus-el
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
xbae (#553659), offered 4 days ago
Description: Xbae Matrix Widget libraries
Reverse Depends: libgeant321-2-gfortran libpawlib-lesstif3-dev
libpawlib-lesstif3-gfortran libxbae-dev paw++ twlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 447
150 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] lzma (#553707), requested 4 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: 65397
apt-cross (#540341), requested 90 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 725 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 107
asymptote (#517342), requested 251 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1102
athcool (#278442), requested 1836 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 175
boinc (#511243), requested 301 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1642
cvs (#354176), requested 1351 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: 24891
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 740 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: 13185
dietlibc (#544060), requested 69 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 231
dpkg (#282283), requested 1810 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 (403 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 88325
elvis (#432298), requested 850 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: 406
emdebian-tools (#540333), requested 90 days ago
Description: emdebian crossbuilding tool set
Reverse Depends: emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa emdebian-rootfs
emdebian-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 175
flightgear (#487388), requested 502 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 677
fluxbox (#552328), requested 11 days ago
Description: Highly configurable and low resource X11 Window manager
Reverse Depends: bbmail
Installations reported by Popcon: 3185
gentoo (#422498), requested 914 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 222
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 574 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: 21
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 434 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 122
graphviz (#536245), requested 120 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: 43692
grub2 (#248397), requested 2005 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: 61057
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 527 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 15059
imagemagick (#452314), requested 715 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ascd asymptote bins
calibre cuneiform docbook2odf drgeo (90 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 29923
jove (#470185), requested 606 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 385
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 257 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 48
koffice (#541691), requested 82 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 3244
kvm (#479951), requested 547 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: kvm-dbg qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 2306
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 15 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: 15877
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 257 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15565
libcap2 (#534999), requested 130 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: 62074
logcheck (#539944), requested 93 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4400
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1162 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 631
mdadm (#537993), requested 106 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 11720
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 519 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 477
mol (#436450), requested 821 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: 40
mtr (#527482), requested 182 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 38502
munin (#535691), requested 124 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: 5126
mutt (#512072), requested 293 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: 73990
mwavem (#313369), requested 1606 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
nas (#354174), requested 1351 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: 46255
nn (#470187), requested 606 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 113
openldap (#512360), requested 289 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: 65002
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 934 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: 42172
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1122 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 1491 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 (673 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 87872
phpwiki (#540061), requested 92 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 70
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1060 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 353
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 240 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: 5089
pyro (#530280), requested 166 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 104
quilt (#543541), requested 72 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 (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6310
resolvconf (#477723), requested 560 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 10105
sepolgen (#483641), requested 524 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 15733
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 590 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 122
wine (#479659), requested 548 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: 13878
yasr (#474251), requested 580 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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