Work-needing packages report for Apr 23, 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: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 134 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 65 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
libapache2-mod-geoip (#578179), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: GeoIP support for apache2
Installations reported by Popcon: 370
linux-patch-tuxonice (#578511), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: TuxOnIce (aka suspend2) kernel patch
Installations reported by Popcon: 190
589 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:
acct (#578695), offered yesterday
Installations reported by Popcon: 1596
ethos (#578696), offered yesterday
Reverse Depends: libethos-dev libethos-ui-1.0-0 libethos-ui-dev
python-ethos
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
siege (#578699), offered yesterday
Installations reported by Popcon: 322
131 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 258 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: 350
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 80 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache
Installations reported by Popcon: 10566
ara (#450876), requested 893 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 116
asymptote (#517342), requested 419 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1253
athcool (#278442), requested 2004 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 147
boinc (#511243), requested 469 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1662
cron (#565143), requested 99 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: 91376
cvs (#354176), requested 1519 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: 25223
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 908 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: 13729
debtags (#567954), requested 80 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: debtags-edit goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2671
dietlibc (#544060), requested 237 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 235
doc-central (#566364), requested 89 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 294
dpkg (#282283), requested 1978 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 (506 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91495
elvis (#432298), requested 1018 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: 404
emdebian-tools (#540333), requested 258 days ago
Description: emdebian crossbuilding tool set
Reverse Depends: emdebian-buildsupport emdebian-qa 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
mlton-target-mipsel-linux-gnu (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 191
fbcat (#565156), requested 99 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 30
flightgear (#487388), requested 670 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 670
flite (#576327), requested 19 days ago
Description: A small run-time speech synthesis engine
Reverse Depends: asterisk-flite brltty-flite eflite flite flite1-dev
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad speech-dispatcher
Installations reported by Popcon: 3578
gentoo (#422498), requested 1082 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 230
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 742 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 (67 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 469
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 602 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 226
grub2 (#248397), requested 2173 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: 70283
gwibber (#573822), requested 39 days ago
Description: microblogging client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 401
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 148 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 737
hibernate (#558739), requested 143 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 15525
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 695 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 11200
imagemagick (#452314), requested 883 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ansel1 ascd asymptote
bins calibre docbook2odf dotlrn (94 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 30851
jove (#470185), requested 774 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 427
kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 425 days ago
Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
Installations reported by Popcon: 48
koffice (#541691), requested 250 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 2814
kvm (#479951), requested 715 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1810
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 183 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: 15550
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 425 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15921
libcap2 (#534999), requested 298 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 (65 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 71230
libopenraw (#530244), requested 334 days ago
Description: free implementation for RAW decoding
Reverse Depends: libopenraw-dev libopenraw1-dbg libopenrawgnome-dev
libopenrawgnome1 libopenrawgnome1-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 6181
link-grammar (#556010), requested 160 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: 8562
logcheck (#539944), requested 261 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4502
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1330 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 579
lzma (#553707), requested 172 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: 74824
mdadm (#537993), requested 274 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 12756
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 687 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-extensions
mediawiki-extensions-confirmedit mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor
mediawiki-extensions-geshi mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth
mediawiki-extensions-openid mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 499
mol (#436450), requested 989 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: 34
monotone (#574609), requested 34 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Reverse Depends: monotone-doc monotone-server qct
Installations reported by Popcon: 327
mtr (#527482), requested 350 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 31382
mutt (#512072), requested 461 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: 76775
mwavem (#313369), requested 1774 days ago (non-free)
Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
nas (#354174), requested 1519 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas amor audiooss basket
camstream celestia-kde creox djplay (148 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 44856
nn (#470187), requested 774 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
nvidia-graphics-drivers (#568952), requested 72 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 nvidia-vdpau-driver
nvidia-vdpau-driver-ia32
Installations reported by Popcon: 4584
openbox (#566900), requested 87 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: 3378
openldap (#512360), requested 457 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 (212 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 74161
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 1102 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 (107 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41095
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1290 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: 365
openssl (#332498), requested 1659 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 3270-common afbackup afbackup-client afflib-tools
aimage aircrack-ng alpine anon-proxy aolserver4-nsimap
aolserver4-nsopenssl (691 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91093
phpwiki (#540061), requested 260 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 67
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1228 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Installations reported by Popcon: 362
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 408 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: 6330
pyro (#530280), requested 334 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 317
quilt (#543541), requested 240 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 libfusioninventory-agent-task-netdiscovery-perl
libfusioninventory-agent-task-snmpquery-perl mozilla-devscripts (3
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7404
resolvconf (#477723), requested 728 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
Installations reported by Popcon: 9613
sepolgen (#483641), requested 692 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 13744
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 758 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 112
usplash (#563195), requested 112 days ago
Description: Userspace bootsplash utility
Reverse Depends: education-thin-client libusplash-dev
tuxonice-userui usplash
Installations reported by Popcon: 1196
wine (#479659), requested 716 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: 13720
yasr (#474251), requested 748 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 56
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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