Work-needing packages report for Aug 6, 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: 597 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 141 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 67 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
scim-bridge (#591467), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: IME server of scim-bridge communicate with SCIM
Reverse Depends: scim-bridge-client-gtk scim-bridge-client-qt
scim-bridge-client-qt4 scim-bridge-el
Installations reported by Popcon: 498
scim-qtimm (#591468), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: SCIM context plugin for qt-immodule
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
595 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 141 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 363 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: 331
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 185 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 12349
ara (#450876), requested 998 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 99
asymptote (#517342), requested 524 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 1280
athcool (#278442), requested 2109 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 129
boinc (#511243), requested 574 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1522
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 67 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromium-browser chromium-browser-dbg
chromium-browser-l10n gecko-mediaplayer sun-java6-plugin
Installations reported by Popcon: 1625
cobbler (#590044), requested 13 days ago
Description: Install server
cvs (#354176), requested 1624 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: 22866
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 1013 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: 12568
debtags (#567954), requested 185 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2485
dietlibc (#544060), requested 342 days ago
Description: diet libc - a libc optimized for small size
Reverse Depends: libowfat-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 228
doc-central (#566364), requested 194 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 274
dpkg (#282283), requested 2083 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 (529 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 88445
elvis (#432298), requested 1123 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: 321
fbcat (#565156), requested 204 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Reverse Depends: fbgrab
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
fglrx-driver (#588361), requested 29 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: 1538
flightgear (#487388), requested 775 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 559
flite (#576327), requested 124 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: 11184
gentoo (#422498), requested 1187 days ago
Description: a fully GUI-configurable, two-pane X file manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 220
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 847 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: 509
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 707 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 229
grub2 (#248397), requested 2278 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: 70569
gwibber (#573822), requested 144 days ago
Description: microblogging client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 477
hadoop (#579787), requested 97 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: 18
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 253 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 701
hibernate (#558739), requested 248 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13078
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 800 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 9162
imagemagick (#452314), requested 988 days ago
Description: Image manipulation programs
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ansel1 ascd asymptote
bins calibre calibre-bin cuneiform (100 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 30079
jove (#470185), requested 879 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Reverse Depends: xjove
Installations reported by Popcon: 368
koffice (#541691), requested 355 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: 2571
kvm (#479951), requested 820 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 1899
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 288 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: 14231
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 530 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15158
libcap2 (#534999), requested 403 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 (73 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 71273
libopenraw (#530244), requested 439 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: 12249
link-grammar (#556010), requested 265 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: 8799
logcheck (#539944), requested 366 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4494
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1435 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 569
lzma (#553707), requested 277 days ago
Description: future of Debian squashfs-lzma
Reverse Depends: dtrx libcomplearn-mod-lzmax locales-all lzma-source
vsag
Installations reported by Popcon: 73590
mdadm (#537993), requested 379 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 12815
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 792 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: 480
mol (#436450), requested 1094 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: 23
monotone (#574609), requested 139 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Reverse Depends: monotone-doc monotone-server qct
Installations reported by Popcon: 303
mtr (#527482), requested 455 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 27570
mutt (#512072), requested 566 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: 73756
nas (#354174), requested 1624 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas audiooss camstream
celestia-kde creox djplay djview3 facturalux (107 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41536
nn (#470187), requested 879 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 106
openbox (#566900), requested 192 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: 3245
openldap (#512360), requested 562 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 (222 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 74272
openoffice.org (#419523), requested 1207 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: 37699
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1395 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: 238
openssl (#332498), requested 1764 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 (711 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 88087
otrs2 (#588363), requested 29 days ago
Description: Open Ticket Request System
Installations reported by Popcon: 209
phpwiki (#540061), requested 365 days ago
Description: informal collaborative website manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 64
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1333 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 373
ppp (#589632), requested 17 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: 23329
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 513 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: 6436
pyro (#530280), requested 439 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples
Installations reported by Popcon: 319
quilt (#543541), requested 345 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: 8340
resolvconf (#477723), requested 833 days ago
Description: name server information handler
Installations reported by Popcon: 8102
sepolgen (#483641), requested 797 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 12671
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 863 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
usplash (#563195), requested 217 days ago
Description: Userspace bootsplash utility
Reverse Depends: education-thin-client libusplash-dev
tuxonice-userui usplash
Installations reported by Popcon: 994
wine (#479659), requested 821 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: 12556
yasr (#474251), requested 853 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
zookeeper (#579791), requested 97 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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