Work-needing packages report for Feb 26, 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: 557 (new: 5)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 133 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requested help for: 62 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
libinnate-ruby (#570797), orphaned 4 days ago
Reverse Depends: libinnate-ruby libramaze-ruby1.8
libramaze-ruby1.9.1
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
libmetaid-ruby (#570798), orphaned 4 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
libramaze-ruby (#570794), orphaned 4 days ago
Reverse Depends: libramaze-ruby
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
libsequel-ruby (#570796), orphaned 4 days ago
Reverse Depends: libsequel-ruby
Installations reported by Popcon: 30
serendipity (#570659), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Weblog manager with extensive theming and plugin
support
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
552 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:
phpbb3 (#570660), offered 5 days ago
Description: A fully featured and skinnable flat (non-threaded)
webforum
Installations reported by Popcon: 169
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:
apt-cross (#540341), requested 202 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: 319
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 24 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache
Installations reported by Popcon: 5001
ara (#450876), requested 837 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 113
asymptote (#517342), requested 363 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1237
athcool (#278442), requested 1948 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 161
blender (#570053), requested 9 days ago
Description: Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer
Reverse Depends: blender-ogrexml
Installations reported by Popcon: 3152
boinc (#511243), requested 413 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1676
cvs (#354176), requested 1463 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: 25548
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 852 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: 13590
debtags (#567954), requested 24 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: debtags-edit goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2762
dietlibc (#544060), requested 181 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 233
doc-central (#566364), requested 33 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 306
dpkg (#282283), requested 1922 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 (474 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91257
elvis (#432298), requested 962 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 202 days ago
Description: emdebian crossbuilding tool set
Reverse Depends: emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa emdebian-rootfs
emdebian-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 170
fbcat (#565156), requested 43 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 26
flightgear (#487388), requested 614 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 653
gentoo (#422498), requested 1026 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 231
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 686 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 (60 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 284
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 546 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 196
grub2 (#248397), requested 2117 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: 67956
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 92 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 705
hibernate (#558739), requested 87 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16711
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 639 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 12317
imagemagick (#452314), requested 827 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ansel1 ascd asymptote
autotrace bins calibre cuneiform (94 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 30889
jove (#470185), requested 718 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 369 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 48
koffice (#541691), requested 194 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 2989
kvm (#479951), requested 659 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1894
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 127 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: 15661
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 369 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 16033
libcap2 (#534999), requested 242 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: 69030
libopenraw (#530244), requested 278 days ago
Description: free implementation for RAW decoding
Reverse Depends: gthumb libopenraw-dev libopenraw1-dbg
libopenrawgnome-dev libopenrawgnome1 libopenrawgnome1-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 7034
link-grammar (#556010), requested 104 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: 8382
logcheck (#539944), requested 205 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4522
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1274 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 596
lzma (#553707), requested 116 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: 72585
mdadm (#537993), requested 218 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 12549
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 631 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 488
mol (#436450), requested 933 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 294 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 33596
mutt (#512072), requested 405 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: 76519
mwavem (#313369), requested 1718 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
nas (#354174), requested 1463 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss basket
camstream celestia-kde creox djplay (155 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45867
nn (#470187), requested 718 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 111
nvidia-graphics-drivers (#568952), requested 16 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: 4682
openbox (#566900), requested 31 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: 3290
openldap (#512360), requested 401 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: adtool alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
apache2.2-bin asterisk asterisk-h323 audispd-plugins autofs-ldap
autofs5-ldap (217 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 71974
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 1046 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: 41901
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1234 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: 354
openssl (#332498), requested 1603 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 (694 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 90838
phpwiki (#540061), requested 204 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 69
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1172 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 349
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 352 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: 5979
pyro (#530280), requested 278 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 216
quilt (#543541), requested 184 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: 6825
resolvconf (#477723), requested 672 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 10299
sepolgen (#483641), requested 636 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 14422
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 702 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 116
usplash (#563195), requested 56 days ago
Description: Userspace bootsplash utility
Reverse Depends: education-thin-client libusplash-dev
tuxonice-userui usplash
Installations reported by Popcon: 1199
wine (#479659), requested 660 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: 13812
yasr (#474251), requested 692 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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