Work-needing packages report for Jan 6, 2012
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: 401 (new: 22)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 146 (new: 9)
Total number of packages requested help for: 61 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
atlas-cpp (#653950), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: The protocol library of the World Forge project -
runtime libs
Reverse Depends: ember libatlas-cpp-0.6-1-dbg libatlas-cpp-0.6-dev
liberis-1.3-15 liberis-1.3-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
byzanz (#654614), orphaned yesterday
Description: Small screencast creator
Installations reported by Popcon: 200
cal3d (#653951), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Skeletal based 3d character animation library - API
documentation
Reverse Depends: libcal3d12-dev libcrystalspace-1.4 python-soya
python-soya-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 855
cyphesis-cpp (#653969), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: WorldForge game server
Installations reported by Popcon: 30
ember (#653970), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: 3D client of the WorldForge project
Installations reported by Popcon: 31
ember-media (#653971), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: media data for Ember
Reverse Depends: ember
Installations reported by Popcon: 34
eris (#653972), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: The WorldForge client entity library
Reverse Depends: ember liberis-1.3-15-dbg liberis-1.3-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 34
garmindev (#654749), orphaned today
Description: QLandkarteGT plugins to access Garmin devices
Installations reported by Popcon: 513
hannah-foo2zjs (#653980), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Graphical firmware downloader for the foo2zjs package
Installations reported by Popcon: 155
html-template (#654323), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: A Ruby Class to use HTML Templates
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
kbibtex (#654750), orphaned today
Description: BibTeX editor for KDE
Installations reported by Popcon: 1853
knocker (#654324), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: a simple and easy to use TCP security port scanner
Installations reported by Popcon: 168
libmodelfile (#653973), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: library to handle Quake .md3 files - runtime library
Reverse Depends: libmd3-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
libwfut (#653974), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: WorldForge Update Tool (libraries)
Reverse Depends: ember libwfut-0.2-1-dbg libwfut-0.2-dev wfut
Installations reported by Popcon: 42
libxml2 (#654176), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: GNOME XML library
Reverse Depends: 3depict 4store abiword aegis aegis-web aeskulap
agave alarm-clock alarm-clock-applet alleyoop (1169 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 115042
libxslt (#654177), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: XSLT 1.0 processing library - runtime library
Reverse Depends: abiword ardour ardour-altivec ardour-i686 chirp
chromium compiz-core compiz-dev compiz-fusion-bcop
compiz-fusion-plugins-extra (154 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 74805
mercator (#653975), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: WorldForge terrain library
Reverse Depends: ember liberis-1.3-15 libmercator-0.2-6-dbg
libmercator-0.2-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
qlandkartegt (#654748), orphaned today
Description: GPS mapping (GeoTiff and vector) and GPSr management
Reverse Depends: qlandkarte
Installations reported by Popcon: 501
sage (#653976), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Supports OpenGL in SDL applications
Reverse Depends: libsage-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 81
tcpspy (#654322), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Incoming and Outgoing TCP/IP connections logger
Installations reported by Popcon: 148
varconf (#653978), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: WorldForge configuration file handling library
Reverse Depends: ember libvarconf-1.0-6-dbg libvarconf-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 70
wfmath (#653979), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: WorldForge math library
Reverse Depends: ember liberis-1.3-15 liberis-1.3-dev
libmercator-0.2-6 libmercator-0.2-dev libwfmath-0.3-4-dbg
libwfmath-0.3-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 73
379 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:
dx (#654646), offered yesterday
Reverse Depends: dx libdx4-dev octave-fpl
Installations reported by Popcon: 881
dxsamples (#654647), offered yesterday
Installations reported by Popcon: 467
libavc1394 (#654648), offered yesterday
Reverse Depends: dvgrab gstreamer0.10-plugins-good kino
libavc1394-dev lives scenic-utils vlc-nox
Installations reported by Popcon: 59963
libdv (#654649), offered yesterday
Reverse Depends: dv4l dvbackup dvgrab gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
kino libdv-bin libdv4-dev libmlt4 libquicktime2 lives (1 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 57447
propaganda-debian (#654553), offered yesterday
Description: Propaganda background image volume for Debian
Installations reported by Popcon: 222
ptop (#654552), offered yesterday
Description: PostgreSQL performance monitoring tool akin to top
Installations reported by Popcon: 238
stl-manual (#654555), offered yesterday
Description: C++-STL documentation in HTML
Installations reported by Popcon: 649
wfrench (#654554), offered yesterday
Description: French dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
Installations reported by Popcon: 10940
ygraph (#654650), offered yesterday
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
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] screen (#654116), requested 3 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Reverse Depends: apt-dater byobu cereal epoptes-client mdm podracer
screenie
Installations reported by Popcon: 39202
apache2 (#646208), requested 75 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: 59909
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 703 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 48770
asymptote (#517342), requested 1042 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 2861
athcool (#278442), requested 2627 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 99
balsa (#642906), requested 102 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg debreaper
Installations reported by Popcon: 256
bastille (#592137), requested 516 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 260
boinc (#511243), requested 1092 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Reverse Depends: boinc boinc-amd-opencl boinc-app-milkyway
boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg boinc-nvidia-cuda
Installations reported by Popcon: 1885
cardstories (#624100), requested 255 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 585 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: 9387
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 442 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: 7228
cvs (#354176), requested 2142 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: 17805
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 1531 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: 14719
debtags (#567954), requested 703 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2621
doc-central (#566364), requested 712 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 219
dpkg (#282283), requested 2601 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 (689 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 117817
elvis (#432298), requested 1641 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: 374
fbcat (#565156), requested 722 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 145
flightgear (#487388), requested 1293 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 817
freeipmi (#628062), requested 224 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: 761
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1360 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Reverse Depends: adabrowse ghdl gnat-4.4 libalog0.3-base
libalog0.3-full libalog1-base-dev libalog1-full-dev
libapq-postgresql1-dev libapq-postgresql3.0 libapq1-dev (38 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1329
gnat-gps (#640532), requested 122 days ago
Description: Build gnatcoll from the sources of GPS
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-common gnat-gps-dbg gnat-gps-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 396
grub2 (#248397), requested 2796 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: 106535
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 771 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1075
hibernate (#651194), requested 30 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 7288
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1318 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 4598
jove (#470185), requested 1397 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 931
kvm (#479951), requested 1338 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
ia64, ppc and s390)
Reverse Depends: nova-compute-kvm qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 2553
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 806 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 (47 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16268
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1048 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 18965
libcap2 (#534999), requested 921 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 (81 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 108540
libnss-db (#624768), requested 249 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2732
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1725 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Reverse Depends: docvert-libreoffice gnome jabref-plugin-oo
jodreports-cli libjodconverter-java libjodreports-java libreoffice
libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc (240 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 41384
line6-usb (#652848), requested 16 days ago
Description: Line 6 POD driver source
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
link-grammar (#556010), requested 783 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: 12859
logcheck (#539944), requested 884 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 5404
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1953 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 331
mdadm (#537993), requested 897 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 16110
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1310 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: 440
monotone (#574609), requested 657 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: 299
movabletype-opensource (#572484), requested 672 days ago
Description: Movable Type and OpenMelody packaging
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
mtr (#527482), requested 973 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 18916
nas (#354174), requested 2142 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas djplay gbsplay
isdnvboxclient libaudio-dev libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev libqtgui4 (14
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 54358
nn (#470187), requested 1397 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
openbox (#566900), requested 710 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Reverse Depends: lxde-core obconf openbox openbox-dev openbox-themes
Installations reported by Popcon: 5187
openldap (#512360), requested 1080 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: adtool alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
apache2.2-bin asterisk-modules audispd-plugins autofs5-ldap balsa
bdii (199 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 110386
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1913 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: fgrun flightgear libopenscenegraph-dev
libopenscenegraph80 libopenthreads-dev libopenwalnut1
libopenwalnut1-dev libosgearth-dev libosgearth1 libossim1 (9 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 520
openssl (#332498), requested 2282 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 (686 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 112659
otrs2 (#588363), requested 547 days ago
Description: Open Ticket Request System
Reverse Depends: otrs
Installations reported by Popcon: 174
piuparts (#584125), requested 583 days ago
Description: piuparts.d.o is maintainance hungry, please help
Reverse Depends: elida
Installations reported by Popcon: 369
piwik (#448532), requested 1529 days ago
Description: real time web analytics software program
ppp (#589632), requested 535 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: 47641
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1031 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: 7875
pyro (#530280), requested 957 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 916
quilt (#543541), requested 863 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: 11974
rng-tools (#630920), requested 201 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 577
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1315 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 9194
serna-free (#640976), requested 118 days ago
Reverse Depends: serna-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1381 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 89
wine (#479659), requested 1339 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: 13581
zookeeper (#579791), requested 615 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: 7
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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