Work-needing packages report for Jul 30, 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: 602 (new: 1)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 147 (new: 10)
Total number of packages requested help for: 67 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
quinn-diff (#590866), orphaned today
Description: Compares a Packages file and a Sources file
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
601 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:
decoratortools (#590781), offered today
Description: version-agnostic decorators support for Python
Reverse Depends: mock python-peak.rules python-peak.util
python-protocols python-turbogears
Installations reported by Popcon: 303
libgc (#590772), offered today
Description: conservative garbage collector for C
Reverse Depends: asymptote chase debfoster ecl fauhdlc goo inkscape
kaya libgc-dev libneko0 (7 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 76791
pyke (#590777), offered today
Description: Prolog-inspired Python logic programming toolkit
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
python-django-djblets (#590776), offered today
Description: Re-usable components for Django projects
Reverse Depends: pootle
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
reinteract (#590773), offered today
Description: Worksheet-based graphical Python shell
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
relational (#590780), offered today
Description: Educational tool for relational algebra
Reverse Depends: relational
Installations reported by Popcon: 29
reviewboard (#590775), offered today
Description: Web-based code review tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 12
robocode (#590774), offered today
Description: Java programming game based on battle tanks
Installations reported by Popcon: 82
trac-spamfilter (#590778), offered today
Description: Spam-prevention plugin for Trac
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
udptunnel (#590779), offered today
Description: Tunnel UDP packets over a TCP connection
Installations reported by Popcon: 69
137 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] cobbler (#590044), requested 6 days ago
Description: Install server
apt-cross (#540341), requested 356 days ago
Description: retrieve, build and install libraries for
cross-compiling
Reverse Depends: apt-cross emdebian-crush
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 mlton-target-powerpc-linux-gnu (3 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 334
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 178 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 12281
ara (#450876), requested 991 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 104
asymptote (#517342), requested 517 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1276
athcool (#278442), requested 2102 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 137
boinc (#511243), requested 567 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1532
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 60 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromium-browser chromium-browser-dbg
chromium-browser-l10n gecko-mediaplayer sun-java6-plugin
Installations reported by Popcon: 1568
cvs (#354176), requested 1617 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: 23587
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 1006 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: 12626
debtags (#567954), requested 178 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2490
dietlibc (#544060), requested 335 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 233
doc-central (#566364), requested 187 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 271
dpkg (#282283), requested 2076 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: a2ps acct ace-gperf acl2-doc adacontrol advi
advi-examples alien alqalam alsa-source (528 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 88738
elvis (#432298), requested 1116 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: 319
fbcat (#565156), requested 197 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Reverse Depends: fbgrab
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
fglrx-driver (#588361), requested 22 days ago (non-free)
Description: non-free AMD/ATI r6xx - r7xx display driver
Reverse Depends: fglrx-atieventsd fglrx-control fglrx-driver
fglrx-glx fglrx-glx-ia32
Installations reported by Popcon: 1516
flightgear (#487388), requested 768 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 570
flite (#576327), requested 117 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: 11033
gentoo (#422498), requested 1180 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 223
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 840 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacgi0 adacontrol asis-programs ghdl
gnat gnat-4.4 gnat-gps gprbuild libadasockets-dev (71 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 508
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 700 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 230
grub2 (#248397), requested 2271 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: 70615
gwibber (#573822), requested 137 days ago
Description: microblogging client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 484
hadoop (#579787), requested 90 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: 16
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 246 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 719
hibernate (#558739), requested 241 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13315
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 793 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 9276
imagemagick (#452314), requested 981 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ansel1 ascd asymptote
bins calibre calibre-bin cuneiform (101 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 30224
jove (#470185), requested 872 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 367
koffice (#541691), requested 348 days ago
Description: KDE Office Suite
Reverse Depends: karbon kchart kexi kformula koffice koffice-dbg
koffice-dev koffice-libs kplato kpresenter (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2541
kvm (#479951), requested 813 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1858
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 281 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 (50 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 14382
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 523 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15276
libcap2 (#534999), requested 396 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: apache2.2-bin asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bind9
bind9-host bind9utils cifs-utils dnsutils hercules (72 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 71392
libopenraw (#530244), requested 432 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: 12177
link-grammar (#556010), requested 258 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: 8794
logcheck (#539944), requested 359 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4483
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1428 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 563
lzma (#553707), requested 270 days ago
Description: future of Debian squashfs-lzma
Reverse Depends: dtrx libcomplearn-mod-lzmax locales-all lzma-source
vsag
Installations reported by Popcon: 73698
mdadm (#537993), requested 372 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 12798
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 785 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-extensions
mediawiki-extensions-collection mediawiki-extensions-confirmedit
mediawiki-extensions-fckeditor mediawiki-extensions-geshi
mediawiki-extensions-graphviz mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth
mediawiki-extensions-openid mediawiki-semediawiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 484
mol (#436450), requested 1087 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: 27
monotone (#574609), requested 132 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Reverse Depends: monotone-doc monotone-server qct
Installations reported by Popcon: 304
mtr (#527482), requested 448 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 27824
mutt (#512072), requested 559 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: 74053
nas (#354174), requested 1617 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas audiooss camstream
celestia-kde creox djplay djview3 dssi-example-plugins (107 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41800
nn (#470187), requested 872 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 101
openbox (#566900), requested 185 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: 3248
openldap (#512360), requested 555 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 (225 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 74349
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 1200 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: 37994
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1388 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph65
libopenthreads-dev libossim1 openscenegraph osgcal ossim-core
simgear-dev simgear1.9.1
Installations reported by Popcon: 211
openssl (#332498), requested 1757 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 (716 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 88381
otrs2 (#588363), requested 22 days ago
Description: Open Ticket Request System
Installations reported by Popcon: 208
phpwiki (#540061), requested 358 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 67
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1326 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 376
ppp (#589632), requested 10 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Reverse Depends: fso-frameworkd gpppon kppp network-manager-pptp
portslave pppconfig pppdcapiplugin pppoe pppoeconf pptp-linux (8
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 23436
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 506 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: 6428
pyro (#530280), requested 432 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples
Installations reported by Popcon: 334
quilt (#543541), requested 338 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Reverse Depends: batmand-gateway-source broadcom-sta-source
et131x-source gcc-4.4-source gpib-modules-source gquilt
mozilla-devscripts nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source
nvidia-kernel-source open-vm-source (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8389
resolvconf (#477723), requested 826 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Installations reported by Popcon: 8131
sepolgen (#483641), requested 790 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 12723
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 856 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 107
usplash (#563195), requested 210 days ago
Description: Userspace bootsplash utility
Reverse Depends: education-thin-client libusplash-dev
tuxonice-userui usplash
Installations reported by Popcon: 1020
wine (#479659), requested 814 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: 12685
yasr (#474251), requested 846 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
zookeeper (#579791), requested 90 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: 8
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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