Work-needing packages report for Jan 15, 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: 622 (new: 1)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 121 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 55 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
mathgl (#564422), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: library for scientific graphs
Reverse Depends: libmgl-dev libmgl-fltk5 libmgl-glut5 libmgl-qt5
libmgl-wx5 libmgl5 mathgl udav
Installations reported by Popcon: 80
621 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 121 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:
[NEW] fbcat (#565156), requested yesterday
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
apt-cross (#540341), requested 160 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: 313
ara (#450876), requested 795 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 117
asymptote (#517342), requested 321 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1144
athcool (#278442), requested 1906 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 160
boinc (#511243), requested 371 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1638
cvs (#354176), requested 1421 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: 24745
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 810 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: 13122
dietlibc (#544060), requested 139 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 232
dpkg (#282283), requested 1880 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 (460 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 87561
elvis (#432298), requested 920 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: 419
emdebian-tools (#540333), requested 160 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 572 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 655
gentoo (#422498), requested 984 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 220
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 644 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacontrol asis-programs gnat gnat-4.4
libahven1-dev libahven17.0 libasis2008 libasis2008-dev libaunit1-dev
(40 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 161
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 504 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 204
grub2 (#248397), requested 2075 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: 63241
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 50 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 641
hibernate (#558739), requested 45 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16775
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 597 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 12854
imagemagick (#452314), requested 785 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: 29946
jove (#470185), requested 676 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 423
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 327 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
koffice (#541691), requested 152 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 3010
kvm (#479951), requested 617 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1917
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 85 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: 15440
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 327 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15557
libcap2 (#534999), requested 200 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 (62 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 64267
link-grammar (#556010), requested 62 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: 7633
logcheck (#539944), requested 163 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4440
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1232 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 621
lzma (#553707), requested 74 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: 67696
mdadm (#537993), requested 176 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 12135
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 589 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 481
mol (#436450), requested 891 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 252 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 34571
mutt (#512072), requested 363 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: 73263
mwavem (#313369), requested 1676 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
nas (#354174), requested 1421 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss basket
camstream celestia-kde creox djplay (161 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 44488
nn (#470187), requested 676 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 115
openldap (#512360), requested 359 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 (215 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 67162
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 1004 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: 40405
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1192 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: 334
openssl (#332498), requested 1561 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 (679 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 87145
phpwiki (#540061), requested 162 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 68
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1130 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 341
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 310 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: 5559
pyro (#530280), requested 236 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 111
quilt (#543541), requested 142 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: 6471
resolvconf (#477723), requested 630 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 9918
sepolgen (#483641), requested 594 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 14522
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 660 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 124
usplash (#563195), requested 14 days ago
Description: Userspace bootsplash utility
Reverse Depends: education-thin-client libusplash-dev
tuxonice-userui usplash
Installations reported by Popcon: 1136
wine (#479659), requested 618 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Reverse Depends: dssi-vst libwine-alsa libwine-capi libwine-cms
libwine-dbg libwine-dev libwine-esd libwine-gl libwine-gphoto2
libwine-jack (12 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13568
yasr (#474251), requested 650 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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