Work-needing packages report for Mar 12, 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: 585 (new: 22)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 131 (new: 3)
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:
blackbox (#573407), orphaned today
Description: Window manager for X
Reverse Depends: bbkeys bbmail bbpager blackbox blackbox-themes
libbt-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 792
dglog (#573218), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: CGI log analyzer for DansGuardian
Installations reported by Popcon: 66
dvbackup (#573466), orphaned today
Description: backup tool using MiniDV camcorders
Installations reported by Popcon: 100
genpower (#572657), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Monitor UPS and handle line power failures
Installations reported by Popcon: 42
gift-gnutella (#572968), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: giFT plugin for the Gnutella network
Reverse Depends: gift
Installations reported by Popcon: 258
hrd (#572682), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: the puzzle game of HuaRongDao
Installations reported by Popcon: 79
jamin (#573465), orphaned today
Description: Audio mastering from a mixed down multitrack source
with JACK
Installations reported by Popcon: 310
lavaps (#572645), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: a lava lamp of currently running processes
Installations reported by Popcon: 161
liblrdf (#573467), orphaned today
Description: liblrdf0 development files
Reverse Depends: aqualung ardour ardour-altivec ardour-i686 galan
hydrogen jack-rack liblrdf0-dev rosegarden terminatorx
Installations reported by Popcon: 3039
log2mail (#572683), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Daemon watching logfiles and mailing lines matching
patterns
Installations reported by Popcon: 74
mediamate (#572681), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: web-based movie database and tracker
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
openverse (#572677), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: A graphical chat client/server written in tcl/tk
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
palo (#572987), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Linux boot loader for parisc/hppa
Reverse Depends: bootcd-hppa
Installations reported by Popcon: 67
perlipq (#572957), orphaned 4 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
pgdocs (#572680), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: PostgreSQL documentation in PDF format on US letter
paper
Installations reported by Popcon: 152
pnm2ppa (#572679), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: PPM to PPA converter
Installations reported by Popcon: 615
signify (#572658), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Automatic, semi-random ".signature" rotator/generator
Installations reported by Popcon: 85
squid-prefetch (#572659), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Simple page-prefetch for Squid web proxy
Installations reported by Popcon: 172
timemachine (#573463), orphaned today
Description: JACK audio recorder for spontaneous and conservatory
use
Installations reported by Popcon: 119
vux (#572675), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: A rating-based, random ogg and mp3 player
Installations reported by Popcon: 41
xpm2wico (#572684), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: An Xpm to Windows .ico converter
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
zd1211-firmware (#573468), orphaned today (non-free)
Description: Firmware images for the zd1211 and zd1211rw wireless
drivers
Installations reported by Popcon: 588
563 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:
asn1c (#572885), offered 4 days ago
Description: ASN.1 compiler for C
Installations reported by Popcon: 68
ctrlproxy (#573354), offered yesterday
Reverse Depends: ctrlproxy-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 39
snacc (#572884), offered 4 days ago
Description: ASN.1 to C or C++ or IDL compiler
Reverse Depends: libsnacc-dev snacc wireshark-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 230
128 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 216 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: 321
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 38 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache
Installations reported by Popcon: 5846
ara (#450876), requested 851 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 109
asymptote (#517342), requested 377 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1224
athcool (#278442), requested 1962 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 157
blender (#570053), requested 23 days ago
Description: Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer
Reverse Depends: blender-ogrexml
Installations reported by Popcon: 3151
boinc (#511243), requested 427 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1681
cvs (#354176), requested 1477 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: autopoint crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb
cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd
cvsps (11 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 25521
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 866 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: 13601
debtags (#567954), requested 38 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: debtags-edit goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2746
dietlibc (#544060), requested 195 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 243
doc-central (#566364), requested 47 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 302
dpkg (#282283), requested 1936 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 (485 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91547
elvis (#432298), requested 976 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: 412
emdebian-tools (#540333), requested 216 days ago
Description: emdebian crossbuilding tool set
Reverse Depends: emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa emdebian-rootfs
emdebian-tools mlton-target-alpha-linux-gnu
mlton-target-arm-linux-gnueabi mlton-target-hppa-linux-gnu
mlton-target-i486-linux-gnu mlton-target-ia64-linux-gnu
mlton-target-mips-linux-gnu (5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 167
fbcat (#565156), requested 57 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 26
flightgear (#487388), requested 628 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 675
gentoo (#422498), requested 1040 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 224
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 700 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 (61 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 316
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 560 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 209
grub2 (#248397), requested 2131 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: 68749
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 106 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 700
hibernate (#558739), requested 101 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16414
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 653 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 12021
imagemagick (#452314), requested 841 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: 30892
jove (#470185), requested 732 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 445
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 383 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 49
koffice (#541691), requested 208 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 2902
kvm (#479951), requested 673 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1857
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 141 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Reverse Depends: clustalx cmucl-clm ddd dx elk geomview grace grass
gridengine-qmon hotswap-gui (51 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15685
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 383 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 16042
libcap2 (#534999), requested 256 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 libbind9-60 (61 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 69733
libopenraw (#530244), requested 292 days ago
Description: free implementation for RAW decoding
Reverse Depends: libopenraw-dev libopenraw1-dbg libopenrawgnome-dev
libopenrawgnome1 libopenrawgnome1-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 6888
link-grammar (#556010), requested 118 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: 8481
logcheck (#539944), requested 219 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4488
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1288 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 600
lzma (#553707), requested 130 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: 73359
mdadm (#537993), requested 232 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 12640
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 645 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 493
mol (#436450), requested 947 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: 38
mtr (#527482), requested 308 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 33052
mutt (#512072), requested 419 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: 76646
mwavem (#313369), requested 1732 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
nas (#354174), requested 1477 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss basket
camstream celestia-kde creox djplay (153 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45675
nn (#470187), requested 732 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
nvidia-graphics-drivers (#568952), requested 30 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: 4622
openbox (#566900), requested 45 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: 3289
openldap (#512360), requested 415 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 (219 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 72698
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 1060 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 (99 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41589
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1248 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: 357
openssl (#332498), requested 1617 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 (697 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91125
phpwiki (#540061), requested 218 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 70
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1186 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 357
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 366 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: 6093
pyro (#530280), requested 292 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 266
quilt (#543541), requested 198 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: 6841
resolvconf (#477723), requested 686 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 10306
sepolgen (#483641), requested 650 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 14248
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 716 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 113
usplash (#563195), requested 70 days ago
Description: Userspace bootsplash utility
Reverse Depends: education-thin-client libusplash-dev
tuxonice-userui usplash
Installations reported by Popcon: 1203
wine (#479659), requested 674 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: 13708
yasr (#474251), requested 706 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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