Work-needing packages report for Jan 13, 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: 400 (new: 15)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 151 (new: 6)
Total number of packages requested help for: 60 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
adept (#655367), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: package management suite for KDE
Installations reported by Popcon: 172
audacious-dumb (#655254), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: audacious plugin for MOD playback via libdumb
Installations reported by Popcon: 130
c2html (#655256), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Highlight C sources for WWW presentation
Installations reported by Popcon: 44
gnomint (#655257), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: x509 Certification Authority management tool for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 153
gtkam (#655253), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: application for retrieving media from digital cameras
Reverse Depends: gtkam-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 1563
isdnactivecards (#655265), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities - active ISDN card support
Installations reported by Popcon: 113
kradio4 (#655255), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: comfortable radio application for KDE
Reverse Depends: kradio
Installations reported by Popcon: 137
kvkbd (#655258), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Virtual keyboard for KDE
Installations reported by Popcon: 160
mknbi (#655259), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Create tagged images for Etherboot or Netboot
Reverse Depends: ltsp-client-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 961
tkgate (#655260), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Event driven digital circuit simulator with Tcl/Tk
Reverse Depends: tkgate
Installations reported by Popcon: 410
vmware-view-open-client (#655267), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: VMware View Open Client
Installations reported by Popcon: 215
vusb-analyzer (#655266), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: tool for visualizing logs of USB packets
Installations reported by Popcon: 27
wvstreams (#655262), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: C++ network libraries for rapid application development
Reverse Depends: libuniconf4.6 libwvstreams-dev
libwvstreams4.6-extras libwvstreams4.6-qt pathfinder-utils
pathfinderd uniconf-tools uniconfd wvdial
Installations reported by Popcon: 2054
zgv (#655263), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: SVGAlib graphics viewer
Installations reported by Popcon: 295
zshdb (#655264), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: debugger for Z-Shell scripts
Installations reported by Popcon: 61
385 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:
easypg (#654943), offered 5 days ago
Description: yet another GnuPG interface for Emacs
Installations reported by Popcon: 197
initz (#654940), offered 5 days ago
Description: Handles the switching of various initialization files
of emacsen
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
liece (#654941), offered 5 days ago
Description: IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client for Emacs
Reverse Depends: liece-dcc
Installations reported by Popcon: 26
lsdb (#654945), offered 5 days ago
Description: The Lovely Sister Database (email rolodex) for Emacs
Installations reported by Popcon: 17
riece (#654944), offered 5 days ago
Description: an IRC client for Emacs
Installations reported by Popcon: 62
rlwrap (#654934), offered 6 days ago
Description: readline feature command line wrapper
Installations reported by Popcon: 2996
145 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 82 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: 59866
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 710 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 48914
asymptote (#517342), requested 1049 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 2861
athcool (#278442), requested 2634 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 98
balsa (#642906), requested 109 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg debreaper
Installations reported by Popcon: 260
bastille (#592137), requested 523 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 262
boinc (#511243), requested 1099 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: 1860
cardstories (#624100), requested 262 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 592 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: 9376
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 449 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: 7170
cvs (#354176), requested 2149 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: 17706
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 1538 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: 14747
debtags (#567954), requested 710 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2607
doc-central (#566364), requested 719 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 224
dpkg (#282283), requested 2608 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 (692 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 117759
elvis (#432298), requested 1648 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: 352
fbcat (#565156), requested 729 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 145
flightgear (#487388), requested 1300 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 819
freeipmi (#628062), requested 231 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: 728
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1367 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: 1313
gnat-gps (#640532), requested 129 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: 386
grub2 (#248397), requested 2803 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: 106607
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 778 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1078
hibernate (#651194), requested 37 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7214
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1325 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 4542
jove (#470185), requested 1404 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 900
kvm (#479951), requested 1345 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: 2550
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 813 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: 16234
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1055 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 18928
libcap2 (#534999), requested 928 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: 108585
libnss-db (#624768), requested 256 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2704
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1732 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: 41469
line6-usb (#652848), requested 23 days ago
Description: Line 6 POD driver source
Installations reported by Popcon: 27
link-grammar (#556010), requested 790 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: 12807
logcheck (#539944), requested 891 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 5338
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1960 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 321
mdadm (#537993), requested 904 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 16062
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1317 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: 446
monotone (#574609), requested 664 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: 304
movabletype-opensource (#572484), requested 679 days ago
Description: Movable Type and OpenMelody packaging
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
mtr (#527482), requested 980 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 18814
nas (#354174), requested 2149 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: 54277
nn (#470187), requested 1404 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
openbox (#566900), requested 717 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: 5134
openldap (#512360), requested 1087 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 (198 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 110402
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1920 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: 530
openssl (#332498), requested 2289 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 (699 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 112645
otrs2 (#588363), requested 554 days ago
Description: Open Ticket Request System
Reverse Depends: otrs
Installations reported by Popcon: 169
piuparts (#584125), requested 590 days ago
Description: piuparts.d.o is maintainance hungry, please help
Reverse Depends: elida
Installations reported by Popcon: 374
piwik (#448532), requested 1536 days ago
Description: real time web analytics software program
ppp (#589632), requested 542 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: 47754
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1038 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: 7869
pyro (#530280), requested 964 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 922
quilt (#543541), requested 870 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: 12001
rng-tools (#630920), requested 208 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 571
screen (#654116), requested 10 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: 39197
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1322 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 9115
serna-free (#640976), requested 125 days ago
Description: <missing description>
Reverse Depends: serna-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1388 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 87
wine (#479659), requested 1346 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: 13579
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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