Work-needing packages report for Mar 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: 591 (new: 16)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 129 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 65 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
audiere (#575198), orphaned yesterday
Description: a portable, high-level audio library
Reverse Depends: libaudiere-1.9.4-dbg libaudiere-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 70
gurlchecker (#574996), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Graphical websites checker
Installations reported by Popcon: 57
hipo (#575200), orphaned yesterday
Description: iPod Management Tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 240
kde-icons-crystal (#575160), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Crystal icon theme for KDE
Installations reported by Popcon: 1430
kde-icons-noia (#575159), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Noia icon theme for KDE 3
Installations reported by Popcon: 987
kwavecontrol (#575161), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Wireless device monitoring application for KDE
Installations reported by Popcon: 209
libslp-dev (#575214), orphaned yesterday
Description: OPenSLP development libraries
medit (#575203), orphaned yesterday
Description: A useful programming and around-programming text editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 162
moodle (#574969), orphaned 3 days ago
Reverse Depends: moodle-book moodle-debian-edu-theme
Installations reported by Popcon: 155
olive (#574972), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: console RSS reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
openslp-dfsg (#575219), orphaned yesterday
Description: OpenSLP libraries
Reverse Depends: cups libslp-dev nis slapd slptool
Installations reported by Popcon: 52912
openslp-doc (#575215), orphaned yesterday
Description: OpenSLP documentation
slpd (#575217), orphaned yesterday
Description: OpenSLP Server (slpd)
texify (#575162), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Beautify source code for use with LaTeX
Installations reported by Popcon: 221
udpcast (#575167), orphaned 2 days ago
Reverse Depends: flamethrower
Installations reported by Popcon: 241
wmnetload (#574739), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: an app for monitorin network load
Installations reported by Popcon: 103
575 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:
libhttp-browserdetect-perl (#575340), offered today
Description: Determine the Web browser, version, and platform from
an HTTP user agent string
Reverse Depends: libcgi-uploader-perl
Installations reported by Popcon: 121
openslp-dfsg (#575219), offered yesterday
Description: OpenSLP libraries
Reverse Depends: cups libslp-dev nis slapd slptool
Installations reported by Popcon: 52912
127 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] monotone (#574609), requested 6 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Reverse Depends: monotone-doc monotone-server qct
Installations reported by Popcon: 316
apt-cross (#540341), requested 230 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: 325
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 52 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache
Installations reported by Popcon: 6047
ara (#450876), requested 865 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 111
asymptote (#517342), requested 391 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1223
athcool (#278442), requested 1976 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 154
blender (#570053), requested 37 days ago
Description: Very fast and versatile 3D modeller/renderer
Reverse Depends: blender-ogrexml
Installations reported by Popcon: 3175
boinc (#511243), requested 441 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1683
cron (#565143), requested 71 days ago
Description: process scheduling daemon
Reverse Depends: apticron autolog backintime-common buildd
checksecurity cricket dtc-common email-reminder exim4-base fiaif (19
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91679
cvs (#354176), requested 1491 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: autopoint crossvc cvs-autoreleasedeb
cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl cvs2html cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd
cvsps (12 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 25404
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 880 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: 13676
debtags (#567954), requested 52 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: debtags-edit goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2737
dietlibc (#544060), requested 209 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 240
doc-central (#566364), requested 61 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 297
dpkg (#282283), requested 1950 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 (495 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91775
elvis (#432298), requested 990 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 230 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 71 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 26
flightgear (#487388), requested 642 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 682
gentoo (#422498), requested 1054 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 226
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 714 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: 355
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 574 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 213
grub2 (#248397), requested 2145 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 (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 69270
gwibber (#573822), requested 11 days ago
Description: microblogging client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 362
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 120 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 704
hibernate (#558739), requested 115 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16204
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 667 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 11849
imagemagick (#452314), requested 855 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ansel1 ascd asymptote
bins calibre docbook2odf dotlrn (91 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 30861
jove (#470185), requested 746 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 447
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 397 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 46
koffice (#541691), requested 222 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 2877
kvm (#479951), requested 687 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1848
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 155 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: 15670
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 397 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 16100
libcap2 (#534999), requested 270 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: 70258
libopenraw (#530244), requested 306 days ago
Description: free implementation for RAW decoding
Reverse Depends: libopenraw-dev libopenraw1-dbg libopenrawgnome-dev
libopenrawgnome1 libopenrawgnome1-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 6520
link-grammar (#556010), requested 132 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: 8446
logcheck (#539944), requested 233 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4475
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1302 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 598
lzma (#553707), requested 144 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: 73889
mdadm (#537993), requested 246 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 12667
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 659 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 490
mol (#436450), requested 961 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: 37
mtr (#527482), requested 322 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 32794
mutt (#512072), requested 433 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: 76864
mwavem (#313369), requested 1746 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
nas (#354174), requested 1491 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss basket
camstream celestia-kde creox djplay (152 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 45648
nn (#470187), requested 746 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 106
nvidia-graphics-drivers (#568952), requested 44 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: 4645
openbox (#566900), requested 59 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: 3317
openldap (#512360), requested 429 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 (215 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 73224
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 1074 days ago
Description: OpenOffice.org Office suite
Reverse Depends: brdesktop-common brdesktop-gnome broffice.org
cli-uno-bridge docvert-openoffice.org jabref-plugin-oo
libjodconverter-java libuno-cli-cppuhelper1.0-cil
libuno-cli-oootypes1.0-cil libuno-cli-ure1.0-cil (100 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41620
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1262 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: 368
openssl (#332498), requested 1631 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 3270-common afbackup afbackup-client afflib-tools
aircrack-ng alpine anon-proxy aolserver4-nsimap aolserver4-nsopenssl
apache2-prefork-dev (694 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91359
phpwiki (#540061), requested 232 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 73
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1200 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: drscheme mzscheme
Installations reported by Popcon: 368
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 380 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: 6150
pyro (#530280), requested 306 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 278
quilt (#543541), requested 212 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
Installations reported by Popcon: 6884
resolvconf (#477723), requested 700 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 10349
sepolgen (#483641), requested 664 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 14208
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 730 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 111
usplash (#563195), requested 84 days ago
Description: Userspace bootsplash utility
Reverse Depends: education-thin-client libusplash-dev
tuxonice-userui usplash
Installations reported by Popcon: 1203
wine (#479659), requested 688 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: 13738
yasr (#474251), requested 720 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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