Work-needing packages report for Nov 11, 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: 400 (new: 5)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 143 (new: 2)
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:
abiword (#648341), orphaned today
Description: efficient, featureful word processor with collaboration
Reverse Depends: abiword abiword-plugin-grammar
abiword-plugin-mathview gnome libabiword-2.8-dev libabiword-2.9-dev
python-abiword
Installations reported by Popcon: 12322
boa-constructor (#647913), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: RAD tool for Python and wxWindows application
Installations reported by Popcon: 218
eboard (#648340), orphaned today
Description: GTK+ chessboard program
Installations reported by Popcon: 595
eboard-extras-pack1 (#648342), orphaned today
Description: additional piece sets and sounds for eboard (pack 1)
Installations reported by Popcon: 276
xmltoman (#647716), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: simple XML to man converter
Installations reported by Popcon: 125
395 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:
cherokee (#648256), offered today
Description: Very fast, flexible and easy to configure web server
Reverse Depends: cget cherokee cherokee-admin libcherokee-base0-dev
libcherokee-client0 libcherokee-client0-dev libcherokee-mod-geoip
libcherokee-mod-ldap libcherokee-mod-libssl libcherokee-mod-mysql (4
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 285
tuxonice-userui (#647875), offered 3 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 154
141 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:
apache2 (#646208), requested 19 days ago
Description: Apache HTTP Server
Reverse Depends: aegis-web apache2 apache2-dbg apache2-mpm-event
apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-mpm-worker
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-suexec apache2-suexec-custom (179 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 59579
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 647 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 47707
ara (#450876), requested 1460 days ago
Description: utility for searching the Debian package database
Installations reported by Popcon: 107
asymptote (#517342), requested 986 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 2868
athcool (#278442), requested 2571 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
balsa (#642906), requested 46 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg debreaper
Installations reported by Popcon: 269
bastille (#592137), requested 460 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 277
boinc (#511243), requested 1036 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc boinc-app-milkyway boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg
boinc-server-maker
Installations reported by Popcon: 1864
cardstories (#624100), requested 199 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 529 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
Installations reported by Popcon: 9304
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 386 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: 6955
cvs (#354176), requested 2086 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: 18161
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 1475 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: 14631
debtags (#567954), requested 647 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2577
doc-central (#566364), requested 656 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 236
dpkg (#282283), requested 2545 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 (634 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 117139
elvis (#432298), requested 1585 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: 379
fbcat (#565156), requested 666 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 141
flightgear (#487388), requested 1237 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 799
flite (#576327), requested 586 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: 44381
freeipmi (#628062), requested 168 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: 733
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1304 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 (47
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1316
gnat-gps (#640532), requested 66 days ago
Description: Build gnatcoll from the sources of GPS
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 401
grub2 (#248397), requested 2740 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 (15 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 105338
gwibber (#573822), requested 606 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: 938
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 715 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1056
hibernate (#558739), requested 710 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7740
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1262 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 5004
jove (#470185), requested 1341 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 943
kvm (#479951), requested 1282 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: nova-compute qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 2501
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 750 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: 16314
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 992 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 18976
libcap2 (#534999), requested 865 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 (88 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 107285
libnss-db (#624768), requested 193 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2829
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1669 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Reverse Depends: cli-uno-bridge docvert-libreoffice gnome
jabref-plugin-oo jodreports-cli libjodconverter-java
libjodreports-java libreoffice libreoffice-base
libreoffice-base-core (244 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 40672
link-grammar (#556010), requested 727 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: 12348
logcheck (#539944), requested 828 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 5351
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1897 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 333
mdadm (#537993), requested 841 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 15832
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1254 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: 441
monotone (#574609), requested 601 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: 332
movabletype-opensource (#572484), requested 616 days ago
Description: Movable Type and OpenMelody packaging
Installations reported by Popcon: 42
mtr (#527482), requested 917 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 19640
nas (#354174), requested 2086 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 (17 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 54146
nfs-utils (#616690), requested 249 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: 95402
nn (#470187), requested 1341 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
openbox (#566900), requested 654 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: 4947
openldap (#512360), requested 1024 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 (212 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 109228
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1857 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: 481
openssl (#332498), requested 2226 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-nsopenssl
apache2-prefork-dev apache2-threaded-dev (680 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 111722
otrs2 (#588363), requested 491 days ago
Description: Open Ticket Request System
Reverse Depends: otrs
Installations reported by Popcon: 175
piuparts (#584125), requested 527 days ago
Description: piuparts.d.o is maintainance hungry, please help
Reverse Depends: elida
Installations reported by Popcon: 359
piwik (#448532), requested 1473 days ago
Description: real time web analytics software program
plt-scheme (#402589), requested 1795 days ago
Description: PLT scheme programming environment
Reverse Depends: minlog
Installations reported by Popcon: 293
ppp (#589632), requested 479 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: 46739
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 975 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Reverse Depends: gadmin-proftpd proftpd-dev proftpd-mod-autohost
proftpd-mod-case proftpd-mod-dnsbl proftpd-mod-fsync
proftpd-mod-geoip proftpd-mod-ldap proftpd-mod-msg proftpd-mod-mysql
(5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7906
pyro (#530280), requested 901 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 917
quilt (#543541), requested 807 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: 11861
rng-tools (#630920), requested 145 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 556
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1259 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 9650
serna-free (#640976), requested 62 days ago
Reverse Depends: serna-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1325 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 101
wine (#479659), requested 1283 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: 13843
yasr (#474251), requested 1315 days ago
Description: General-purpose console screen reader
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
zookeeper (#579791), requested 559 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: 5
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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