Work-needing packages report for Oct 7, 2011
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: 398 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 130 (new: 4)
Total number of packages requested help for: 64 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
obconf (#644156), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Preferences manager for Openbox window manager
Reverse Depends: lxde
Installations reported by Popcon: 4075
python-uniconvertor (#644559), orphaned today
Description: Universal vector graphics translator
Reverse Depends: python-uniconvertor-dbg tgif
Installations reported by Popcon: 1007
396 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:
devilspie (#644202), offered 3 days ago
Description: find windows and perform actions on them
Installations reported by Popcon: 567
nlpsolver (#644288), offered 2 days ago
Description: "Solver for Nonlinear Programming" extension for
LibreOffice
Installations reported by Popcon: 181
pysieved (#644555), offered today
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
tpb (#643900), offered 6 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 410
126 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-xapian-index (#567955), requested 612 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 44738
ara (#450876), requested 1425 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 112
asymptote (#517342), requested 951 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 2670
athcool (#278442), requested 2536 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 101
balsa (#642906), requested 11 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg debreaper
Installations reported by Popcon: 269
bastille (#592137), requested 425 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 291
boinc (#511243), requested 1001 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
boinc-server-maker
Installations reported by Popcon: 1840
cardstories (#624100), requested 164 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 494 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromium chromium-browser chromium-browser-dbg
chromium-browser-inspector chromium-browser-l10n chromium-dbg
chromium-l10n gecko-mediaplayer mozplugger sun-java6-plugin
Installations reported by Popcon: 8712
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 351 days ago
Description: configures encrypted block devices
Reverse Depends: cryptsetup cryptsetup-udeb libcryptsetup-dev
libguestfs0 libpam-mount ltsp-client mandos-client partman-crypto-dm
rescue-mode systemd
Installations reported by Popcon: 6702
cvs (#354176), requested 2051 days ago
Description: Concurrent Versions System
Reverse Depends: cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl cvs2html
cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsps cvsservice cvssuck (8 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 18177
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 1440 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
postgresql-server-dev-all simple-cdd (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 14511
debtags (#567954), requested 612 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2563
doc-central (#566364), requested 621 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 235
dpkg (#282283), requested 2510 days ago
Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
Reverse Depends: a2ps acct ace-gperf acl2-doc
ada-reference-manual-info adacontrol advi advi-examples alien
alqalam (604 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 113955
elvis (#432298), requested 1550 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: 391
fbcat (#565156), requested 631 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 133
flightgear (#487388), requested 1202 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 757
flite (#576327), requested 551 days ago
Description: A small run-time speech synthesis engine
Reverse Depends: asterisk-flite brltty-flite eflite flite flite1-dev
gnustep-gui-runtime gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad speech-dispatcher
Installations reported by Popcon: 41454
freeipmi (#628062), requested 133 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Reverse Depends: freeipmi-bmc-watchdog freeipmi-ipmidetect
freeipmi-tools libfreeipmi-dev libfreeipmi10 libipmiconsole-dev
libipmiconsole2 libipmidetect-dev libipmidetect0
libipmimonitoring-dev (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 708
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1269 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Reverse Depends: adabrowse adacgi0 ghdl gnat gnat-4.4 gnat-gps
libadasockets3-dev libahven1-dev libahven17.0 libalog0.3-base (52
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1278
gnat-gps (#640532), requested 31 days ago
Description: Build gnatcoll from the sources of GPS
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 367
grub2 (#248397), requested 2705 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: grml-rescueboot grml2usb grub grub-coreboot
grub-coreboot-bin grub-disk grub-efi grub-efi-amd64
grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-ia32 (17 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 101896
gwibber (#573822), requested 571 days ago
Description: microblogging client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: gwibber gwibber-service-buzz gwibber-service-digg
gwibber-service-facebook gwibber-service-flickr
gwibber-service-foursquare gwibber-service-friendfeed
gwibber-service-identica gwibber-service-pingfm
gwibber-service-qaiku (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 911
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 680 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1037
hibernate (#558739), requested 675 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8004
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1227 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 5227
jove (#470185), requested 1306 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 928
kvm (#479951), requested 1247 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: nova-compute qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 2429
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 715 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Reverse Depends: alliance cmucl-clm ddd dx elk geomview grace grass
gridengine-qmon hotswap-gui (46 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16056
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 957 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 18474
libcap2 (#534999), requested 830 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: apache2.2-bin asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bind9
bind9-host bind9utils diod dnsutils gnome-keyring (78 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 103752
libnss-db (#624768), requested 158 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2880
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1634 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Reverse Depends: cli-uno-bridge docvert-libreoffice gnome-office
jabref-plugin-oo jodreports-cli libjodconverter-java
libjodreports-java libreoffice libreoffice-base
libreoffice-base-core (244 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 38588
link-grammar (#556010), requested 692 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: 11575
logcheck (#539944), requested 793 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 5334
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1862 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 356
mdadm (#537993), requested 806 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 15687
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1219 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: 439
monotone (#574609), requested 566 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Reverse Depends: monotone-doc monotone-extras monotone-server qct
Installations reported by Popcon: 333
movabletype-opensource (#572484), requested 581 days ago
Description: Movable Type and OpenMelody packaging
Installations reported by Popcon: 43
mtr (#527482), requested 882 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 20013
nas (#354174), requested 2051 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas djplay gbsplay
isdnvboxclient libaudio-dev libgnuradio-qtgui0 libqt3-mt
libqt3-mt-dev (18 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 52580
nfs-utils (#616690), requested 214 days ago
Description: NFS support files common to client and server
Reverse Depends: fai-quickstart ltsp-server-standalone
nfs-kernel-server rgmanager task-file-server
Installations reported by Popcon: 92703
nn (#470187), requested 1306 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
openbox (#566900), requested 619 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: 4824
openldap (#512360), requested 989 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: adtool alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
apache2.2-bin asterisk-h323 asterisk-modules audispd-plugins
autofs-ldap autofs5-ldap (208 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 105774
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1822 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: fgrun flightgear libopenscenegraph-dev
libopenscenegraph80 libopenthreads-dev libopenwalnut1
libopenwalnut1-dev libosgearth-dev libosgearth1 libossim1 (10 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 440
openssl (#332498), requested 2191 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 3270-common afflib-tools alpine amanda-client
amanda-common amanda-server anon-proxy aolserver4-nsimap
aolserver4-nsopenssl apache2-prefork-dev (666 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 108320
otrs2 (#588363), requested 456 days ago
Description: Open Ticket Request System
Reverse Depends: otrs
Installations reported by Popcon: 175
piuparts (#584125), requested 492 days ago
Description: piuparts.d.o is maintainance hungry, please help
Reverse Depends: elida
Installations reported by Popcon: 358
piwik (#448532), requested 1438 days ago
Description: real time web analytics software program
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1760 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 296
ppp (#589632), requested 444 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Reverse Depends: gpppon ipppd kppp network-manager-pptp portslave
pppconfig pppdcapiplugin pppoe pppoeconf pptp-linux (8 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 44119
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 940 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Reverse Depends: gadmin-proftpd proftpd-dev proftpd-mod-dnsbl
proftpd-mod-ldap proftpd-mod-mysql proftpd-mod-odbc
proftpd-mod-pgsql proftpd-mod-sqlite proftpd-mod-vroot
Installations reported by Popcon: 7717
pyro (#530280), requested 866 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 865
quilt (#543541), requested 772 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Reverse Depends: broadcom-sta-source gcc-4.4-source gcc-4.5-source
gcc-4.6-source gpib-modules-source gquilt meego-packaging-tools
mozilla-devscripts nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source
nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-source (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 11587
rng-tools (#630920), requested 110 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 550
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1224 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 9830
serna-free (#640976), requested 27 days ago
Reverse Depends: serna-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1290 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 101
wine (#479659), requested 1248 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: 13782
yasr (#474251), requested 1280 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
zookeeper (#579791), requested 524 days ago
Description: Information management inside a cluster. Part of the
hadoop family.
Reverse Depends: 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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