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Work-needing packages report for May 14, 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: 607 (new: 10)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 120 (new: 0)
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:

   acx100 (#581519), orphaned today
     Installations reported by Popcon: 331

   awffull (#581365), orphaned yesterday
     Description: web server log analysis program
     Installations reported by Popcon: 130

   bubblemon (#581368), orphaned yesterday
     Description: Bubbling Load Monitoring GNOME Applet
     Installations reported by Popcon: 187

   dact (#581369), orphaned yesterday
     Description: Multi-algorithm compression
     Installations reported by Popcon: 50

   earcandy (#581520), orphaned today
     Installations reported by Popcon: 109

   libform-validator-ruby (#581401), orphaned yesterday
     Description: HTML form validation library for Ruby
     Reverse Depends: libform-validator-ruby
     Installations reported by Popcon: 22

   lincity (#581389), orphaned yesterday
     Description: build & maintain a city/country
     Installations reported by Popcon: 463

   scsiadd (#581388), orphaned yesterday
     Description: add or remove SCSI devices by rescanning the bus
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1010

   snake4 (#581387), orphaned yesterday
     Description: Snake game
     Installations reported by Popcon: 139

   tcpreen (#581386), orphaned yesterday
     Description: Simple TCP re-engineering tool
     Installations reported by Popcon: 77

597 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.

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No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 120 packages
are awaiting adoption.  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 279 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: 351

   apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 101 days ago
     Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
     Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache
     Installations reported by Popcon: 11520

   ara (#450876), requested 914 days ago
     Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
     Installations reported by Popcon: 111

   asymptote (#517342), requested 440 days ago
     Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
       MetaPost
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1278

   athcool (#278442), requested 2025 days ago
     Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
     Installations reported by Popcon: 143

   boinc (#511243), requested 490 days ago
     Description: BOINC distributed computing
     Reverse Depends: boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1645

   cvs (#354176), requested 1540 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: 25467

   dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 929 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: 13881

   debtags (#567954), requested 101 days ago
     Description: Enables support for package tags
     Reverse Depends: debtags-edit goplay packagesearch
     Installations reported by Popcon: 2662

   dietlibc (#544060), requested 258 days ago
     Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
     Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
     Installations reported by Popcon: 246

   doc-central (#566364), requested 110 days ago
     Description: web-based documentation browser
     Installations reported by Popcon: 288

   dpkg (#282283), requested 1999 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 (507 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 92183

   elvis (#432298), requested 1039 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 279 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 120 days ago
     Description: framebuffer grabber
     Reverse Depends: fbgrab
     Installations reported by Popcon: 53

   flightgear (#487388), requested 691 days ago
     Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
     Installations reported by Popcon: 648

   flite (#576327), requested 40 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: 3992

   gentoo (#422498), requested 1103 days ago
     Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
     Installations reported by Popcon: 234

   gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 763 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: 502

   gnat-gps (#496905), requested 623 days ago
     Description: co-maintainer needed
     Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
     Installations reported by Popcon: 230

   grub2 (#248397), requested 2194 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: 71536

   gwibber (#573822), requested 60 days ago
     Description: microblogging client for GNOME
     Installations reported by Popcon: 444

   hadoop (#579787), requested 13 days ago
     Description: software platform for processing vast amounts of data
     Reverse Depends: hadoop-bin hadoop-daemons-common hadoop-datanoded
       hadoop-jobtrackerd hadoop-namenoded hadoop-secondarynamenoded
       hadoop-tasktrackerd hbase-daemons-common libhadoop-index-java
       libhadoop-java-doc (1 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 15

   hfsprogs (#557892), requested 169 days ago
     Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
     Installations reported by Popcon: 740

   hibernate (#558739), requested 164 days ago
     Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
       disk)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 15185

   hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 716 days ago
     Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
     Installations reported by Popcon: 10850

   imagemagick (#452314), requested 904 days ago
     Description: Image manipulation programs
     Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ansel1 ascd asymptote
       bins calibre docbook2odf dotlrn (95 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 31218

   jove (#470185), requested 795 days ago
     Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
       editor
     Reverse Depends: xjove
     Installations reported by Popcon: 442

   kernel-patch-exec-shield (#516488), requested 446 days ago
     Description: protection against stack smashing and other attacks
     Reverse Depends: kernel-patch-exec-shield
     Installations reported by Popcon: 46

   koffice (#541691), requested 271 days ago
     Description: KDE Office Suite
     Installations reported by Popcon: 2786

   kvm (#479951), requested 736 days ago
     Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
       ia64, ppc and s390)
     Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1809

   lesstif2 (#551853), requested 204 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: 15496

   libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 446 days ago
     Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
     Reverse Depends: dicoweb
     Installations reported by Popcon: 15955

   libcap2 (#534999), requested 319 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: 72460

   libopenraw (#530244), requested 355 days ago
     Description: free implementation for RAW decoding
     Reverse Depends: libgegl-0.0-0 libopenraw-dev libopenraw1-dbg
       libopenrawgnome-dev libopenrawgnome1 libopenrawgnome1-dbg
     Installations reported by Popcon: 8003

   link-grammar (#556010), requested 181 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: 8873

   logcheck (#539944), requested 282 days ago
     Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
       administrator
     Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
     Installations reported by Popcon: 4506

   loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1351 days ago
     Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
     Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
     Installations reported by Popcon: 576

   lzma (#553707), requested 193 days ago
     Description: future of Debian squashfs-lzma
     Reverse Depends: dtrx libcomplearn-mod-lzmax locales-all lzma-source
       vsag
     Installations reported by Popcon: 76035

   mdadm (#537993), requested 295 days ago
     Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
     Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
     Installations reported by Popcon: 12858

   mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 708 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: 483

   mol (#436450), requested 1010 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: 35

   monotone (#574609), requested 55 days ago
     Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
       maintainers needed
     Reverse Depends: monotone-doc monotone-server qct
     Installations reported by Popcon: 320

   mtr (#527482), requested 371 days ago
     Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
     Installations reported by Popcon: 30742

   mutt (#512072), requested 482 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: 77181

   mwavem (#313369), requested 1795 days ago (non-free)
     Description: Mwave/ACP modem support software
     Installations reported by Popcon: 2

   nas (#354174), requested 1540 days ago
     Description: The Network Audio System
     Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas audiooss basket camstream
       celestia-kde creox djplay djview3 (113 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 45068

   nn (#470187), requested 795 days ago
     Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 107

   openbox (#566900), requested 108 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: 3452

   openldap (#512360), requested 478 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 (216 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 75447

   openoffice.org (#419523), requested 1123 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: 41191

   openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1311 days ago
     Description: 3d scenegraph
     Reverse Depends: flightgear libopenscenegraph-dev
       libopenscenegraph56 libopenscenegraph65 libopenthreads-dev libosgal1
       libossim1 openscenegraph osgcal ossim-core (2 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 171

   openssl (#332498), requested 1680 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 (690 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 91806

   phpwiki (#540061), requested 281 days ago
     Description: informal collaborative website manager
     Installations reported by Popcon: 59

   plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1249 days ago
     Description: PLT scheme programming environment
     Installations reported by Popcon: 371

   proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 429 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: 6414

   pyro (#530280), requested 355 days ago
     Description: distributed object system for Python
     Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui
     Installations reported by Popcon: 313

   quilt (#543541), requested 261 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: 7667

   resolvconf (#477723), requested 749 days ago
     Description: name server information handler
     Reverse Depends: debian-edu-config
     Installations reported by Popcon: 9347

   sepolgen (#483641), requested 713 days ago
     Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
     Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
     Installations reported by Popcon: 13607

   sql-ledger (#472709), requested 779 days ago
     Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
     Installations reported by Popcon: 109

   usplash (#563195), requested 133 days ago
     Description: Userspace bootsplash utility
     Reverse Depends: education-thin-client libusplash-dev
       tuxonice-userui usplash
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1180

   wine (#479659), requested 737 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 (13 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 13674

   yasr (#474251), requested 769 days ago
     Description: General-purpose console screen reader
     Installations reported by Popcon: 50

   zookeeper (#579791), requested 13 days ago
     Description: Information management inside a cluster. Part of the
       hadoop family.
     Reverse Depends: libhbase-java libzkclient-java libzookeeper-dev
       libzookeeper-java-doc python-zookeeper zookeeper zookeeper-bin
       zookeeperd
     Installations reported by Popcon: 4

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


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