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Work-needing packages report for Feb 19, 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: 556 (new: 5)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 134 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 62 (new: 1)

Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.

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The following packages have been orphaned:

   darcs-buildpackage (#570281), orphaned yesterday
     Description: Suite to help with Debian packages in Darcs archives
     Installations reported by Popcon: 195

   libcdk5 (#570267), orphaned yesterday
     Description: C-based curses widget library
     Reverse Depends: gphoto2 libcdk-perl libcdk5-dev licq-plugin-console
     Installations reported by Popcon: 2921

   pmtools (#569525), orphaned 6 days ago
     Description: Perl module tools
     Installations reported by Popcon: 145

   s3switch (#570188), orphaned yesterday
     Description: Manage the output device on S3 Savage chips
     Installations reported by Popcon: 42

   washngo (#570284), orphaned yesterday
     Description: Web Authoring System for Haskell
     Installations reported by Popcon: 5

551 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:

   mathml (#570333), offered today

   s3switch (#570188), offered yesterday
     Description: Manage the output device on S3 Savage chips
     Installations reported by Popcon: 42

132 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] blender (#570053), requested 2 days ago
     Description: Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer
     Reverse Depends: blender-ogrexml
     Installations reported by Popcon: 3165

   apt-cross (#540341), requested 195 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: 309

   apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 17 days ago
     Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
     Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache
     Installations reported by Popcon: 4323

   ara (#450876), requested 830 days ago
     Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
     Installations reported by Popcon: 113

   asymptote (#517342), requested 356 days ago
     Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
       MetaPost
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1214

   athcool (#278442), requested 1941 days ago
     Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
     Installations reported by Popcon: 163

   boinc (#511243), requested 406 days ago
     Description: BOINC distributed computing
     Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1657

   cvs (#354176), requested 1456 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: 25500

   dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 845 days ago
     Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
       information
     Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies debtree dlocate
       haskell-devscripts javahelper libsbuild-perl linux-patch-debianlogo
       simple-cdd ubuntu-dev-tools
     Installations reported by Popcon: 13556

   debtags (#567954), requested 17 days ago
     Description: Enables support for package tags
     Reverse Depends: debtags-edit goplay packagesearch
     Installations reported by Popcon: 2785

   dietlibc (#544060), requested 174 days ago
     Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
     Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
     Installations reported by Popcon: 229

   doc-central (#566364), requested 26 days ago
     Description: web-based documentation browser
     Installations reported by Popcon: 303

   dpkg (#282283), requested 1915 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 (491 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 90951

   elvis (#432298), requested 955 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: 409

   emdebian-tools (#540333), requested 195 days ago
     Description: emdebian crossbuilding tool set
     Reverse Depends: emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa emdebian-rootfs
       emdebian-tools
     Installations reported by Popcon: 169

   fbcat (#565156), requested 36 days ago
     Description: framebuffer grabber
     Installations reported by Popcon: 25

   flightgear (#487388), requested 607 days ago
     Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
     Installations reported by Popcon: 658

   gentoo (#422498), requested 1019 days ago
     Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
     Installations reported by Popcon: 227

   gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 679 days ago
     Description: help needed to execute test cases
     Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacontrol asis-programs ghdl gnat
       gnat-4.4 gnat-gps gprbuild libadasockets-dev libahven1-dev (51 more
       omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 260

   gnat-gps (#496905), requested 539 days ago
     Description: co-maintainer needed
     Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
     Installations reported by Popcon: 195

   grub2 (#248397), requested 2110 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: 67416

   hfsprogs (#557892), requested 85 days ago
     Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
     Installations reported by Popcon: 701

   hibernate (#558739), requested 80 days ago
     Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
       disk)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 16762

   hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 632 days ago
     Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
     Installations reported by Popcon: 12446

   imagemagick (#452314), requested 820 days ago
     Description: Image manipulation programs
     Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ansel1 ascd asymptote
       autotrace bins calibre cuneiform (93 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 30965

   jove (#470185), requested 711 days ago
     Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
       editor
     Reverse Depends: xjove
     Installations reported by Popcon: 444

   kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 362 days ago
     Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
     Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
     Installations reported by Popcon: 48

   koffice (#541691), requested 187 days ago
     Description: KDE Office Suite
     Installations reported by Popcon: 3014

   kvm (#479951), requested 652 days ago
     Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
       ia64, ppc and s390)
     Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1900

   lesstif2 (#551853), requested 120 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: 15674

   libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 362 days ago
     Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
     Reverse Depends: dicoweb
     Installations reported by Popcon: 16005

   libcap2 (#534999), requested 235 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 (60 more
       omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 68503

   libopenraw (#530244), requested 271 days ago
     Description: free implementation for RAW decoding
     Reverse Depends: gthumb libopenraw-dev libopenraw1-dbg
       libopenrawgnome-dev libopenrawgnome1 libopenrawgnome1-dbg
     Installations reported by Popcon: 6960

   link-grammar (#556010), requested 97 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: 8311

   logcheck (#539944), requested 198 days ago
     Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
       administrator
     Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
     Installations reported by Popcon: 4496

   loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1267 days ago
     Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
     Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
     Installations reported by Popcon: 604

   lzma (#553707), requested 109 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: 72023

   mdadm (#537993), requested 211 days ago
     Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
     Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
     Installations reported by Popcon: 12480

   mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 624 days ago
     Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
     Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
     Installations reported by Popcon: 490

   mol (#436450), requested 926 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: 39

   mtr (#527482), requested 287 days ago
     Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
     Installations reported by Popcon: 33819

   mutt (#512072), requested 398 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: 76297

   mwavem (#313369), requested 1711 days ago (non-free)
     Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1

   nas (#354174), requested 1456 days ago
     Description: The Network Audio System
     Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss basket
       camstream celestia-kde creox djplay (158 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 45781

   nn (#470187), requested 711 days ago
     Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 117

   nvidia-graphics-drivers (#568952), requested 9 days ago (non-free)
     Description: Developer needed to take on major role in packaging
       team
     Reverse Depends: libcuda1-dev nvidia-glx-dev nvidia-libvdpau-dev
       nvidia-libvdpau1 nvidia-libvdpau1-ia32
     Installations reported by Popcon: 4710

   openbox (#566900), requested 24 days ago
     Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
       window manager
     Reverse Depends: libobrender21 lxde-core obconf openbox openbox-dev
       openbox-themes
     Installations reported by Popcon: 3258

   openldap (#512360), requested 394 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 (219 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 71442

   openoffice.org (#419523), requested 1039 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: 41943

   openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1227 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: 351

   openssl (#332498), requested 1596 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 (689 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 90530

   phpwiki (#540061), requested 197 days ago
     Description: informal collaborative website manager
     Installations reported by Popcon: 69

   plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1165 days ago
     Description: PLT scheme programming environment
     Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
     Installations reported by Popcon: 358

   proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 345 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: 5920

   pyro (#530280), requested 271 days ago
     Description: distributed object system for Python
     Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
     Installations reported by Popcon: 172

   quilt (#543541), requested 177 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: 6734

   resolvconf (#477723), requested 665 days ago
     Description: name server information handler
     Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
     Installations reported by Popcon: 10324

   sepolgen (#483641), requested 629 days ago
     Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
     Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
     Installations reported by Popcon: 14438

   sql-ledger (#472709), requested 695 days ago
     Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
     Installations reported by Popcon: 115

   usplash (#563195), requested 49 days ago
     Description: Userspace bootsplash utility
     Reverse Depends: education-thin-client libusplash-dev
       tuxonice-userui usplash
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1183

   wine (#479659), requested 653 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: 13835

   yasr (#474251), requested 685 days ago
     Description: General-purpose console screen reader
     Installations reported by Popcon: 54

See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.


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