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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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