Work-needing packages report for Jan 1, 2010
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: 646 (new: 1)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 131 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 54 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
crossvc (#562509), orphaned 6 days ago (non-free)
Description: graphical CVS frontend
Installations reported by Popcon: 120
645 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:
crossvc (#562509), offered 6 days ago (non-free)
Description: graphical CVS frontend
Installations reported by Popcon: 120
dpatch (#562697), offered 4 days ago
Description: Debian patch management system
Reverse Depends: acx100-source drbd0.7-module-source drbd8-source
kqemu-source lustre-source nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source
nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-source nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-source
nvidia-kernel-source r-base-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 13411
129 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 146 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: 318
ara (#450876), requested 781 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 118
asymptote (#517342), requested 307 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1147
athcool (#278442), requested 1892 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 167
boinc (#511243), requested 357 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1662
cvs (#354176), requested 1407 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: 24941
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 796 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies debtree dlocate
haskell-devscripts libsbuild-perl linux-patch-debianlogo mlmmj
simple-cdd ubuntu-dev-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 13303
dietlibc (#544060), requested 125 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 237
dpkg (#282283), requested 1866 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: acct adacontrol advi advi-examples alien alqalam
alsa-source am-utils-doc apt-build apt-cross (454 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 88516
elvis (#432298), requested 906 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: 413
emdebian-tools (#540333), requested 146 days ago
Description: emdebian crossbuilding tool set
Reverse Depends: emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa emdebian-rootfs
emdebian-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 174
flightgear (#487388), requested 558 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 668
fluxbox (#552328), requested 67 days ago
Description: Highly configurable and low resource X11 Window manager
Reverse Depends: bbmail
Installations reported by Popcon: 3057
gentoo (#422498), requested 970 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 217
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 630 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacontrol asis-programs gnat gnat-4.4
libasis2008 libasis2008-dev libaunit1-dev libaunit3 libaws-bin (38
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 150
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 490 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 187
grub2 (#248397), requested 2061 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 (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 63605
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 36 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 640
hibernate (#558739), requested 31 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 17334
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 583 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 13348
imagemagick (#452314), requested 771 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ansel1 ascd asymptote
autotrace bins calibre cuneiform (92 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 30269
jove (#470185), requested 662 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 436
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 313 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 48
koffice (#541691), requested 138 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 3107
kvm (#479951), requested 603 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1991
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 71 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 (51 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15628
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 313 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15627
libcap2 (#534999), requested 186 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: apache2.2-bin asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bind9
bind9-host bind9utils dnsutils dovecot-common hercules (63 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 64657
link-grammar (#556010), requested 48 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Reverse Depends: abiword-plugin-grammar liblink-grammar4
liblink-grammar4-dev liblink-grammar4-java link-grammar
Installations reported by Popcon: 7656
logcheck (#539944), requested 149 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4466
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1218 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 606
lzma (#553707), requested 60 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: 68084
mdadm (#537993), requested 162 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 12110
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 575 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 474
mol (#436450), requested 877 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 238 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 35434
mutt (#512072), requested 349 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: 74091
mwavem (#313369), requested 1662 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
nas (#354174), requested 1407 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss basket
camstream celestia-kde creox djplay (160 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45250
nn (#470187), requested 662 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 118
openldap (#512360), requested 345 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 (206 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 67539
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 990 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 (91 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41147
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1178 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: flightgear libopenscenegraph-dev
libopenscenegraph56 libopenthreads-dev libosgal1 libossim1
openscenegraph osgcal ossim-core simgear-dev (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 328
openssl (#332498), requested 1547 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 (678 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 88075
phpwiki (#540061), requested 148 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 68
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1116 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 358
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 296 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: 5493
pyro (#530280), requested 222 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 114
quilt (#543541), requested 128 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Reverse Depends: audacious-plugins-dev batmand-gateway-source
broadcom-sta-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: 6489
resolvconf (#477723), requested 616 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 10037
sepolgen (#483641), requested 580 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 14895
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 646 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 126
wine (#479659), requested 604 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: 13684
yasr (#474251), requested 636 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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