Work-needing packages report for Jan 27, 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: 397 (new: 5)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 151 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 59 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
arrayprobe (#656590), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: command line HP (Compaq) SmartArray status checker
Installations reported by Popcon: 248
cpqarrayd (#656592), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: monitoring tool for HP (Compaq) SmartArray controllers
Installations reported by Popcon: 276
envstore (#657333), orphaned yesterday
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
fossology (#656591), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: open and modular architecture for analyzing software
Reverse Depends: fossology fossology-agents fossology-agents-single
fossology-scheduler fossology-scheduler-single fossology-web
fossology-web-single
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
xclip (#657329), orphaned yesterday
Reverse Depends: slimrat
Installations reported by Popcon: 2009
392 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:
aspic (#657083), offered 3 days ago
Description: Line art generator
Installations reported by Popcon: 27
barry (#657076), offered 3 days ago
Reverse Depends: barry-util barry-util-dbg barrybackup-gui
barrybackup-gui-dbg libbarry-dev libbarry0-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
movabletype-opensource (#657240), offered 2 days ago
Description: A well-known blogging engine
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
148 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] movabletype-opensource (#657240), requested 2 days ago
Description: A well-known blogging engine
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
apache2 (#646208), requested 96 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 (178 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 60843
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 724 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 50483
asymptote (#517342), requested 1063 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 2987
athcool (#278442), requested 2648 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 95
balsa (#642906), requested 123 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg debreaper
Installations reported by Popcon: 270
bastille (#592137), requested 537 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 254
boinc (#511243), requested 1113 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: 1861
cardstories (#624100), requested 276 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 606 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromium chromium-browser chromium-browser-dbg
chromium-browser-inspector chromium-browser-l10n chromium-dbg
chromium-l10n mozplugger
Installations reported by Popcon: 9701
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 463 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: 7341
cvs (#354176), requested 2163 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: 17789
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 1552 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: 14910
debtags (#567954), requested 724 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2606
doc-central (#566364), requested 733 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 224
dpkg (#282283), requested 2622 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 (705 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 120133
elvis (#432298), requested 1662 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: 376
fbcat (#565156), requested 743 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 156
flightgear (#487388), requested 1314 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 827
freeipmi (#628062), requested 245 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: 802
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1381 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Reverse Depends: ghdl gnat-4.4 libalog0.3-base libalog0.3-full
libalog1-base-dev libalog1-full-dev libapq-postgresql1-dev
libapq-postgresql3.0 libapq1-dev libapq3.0 (37 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1322
gnat-gps (#640532), requested 143 days ago
Description: Build gnatcoll from the sources of GPS
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 393
grub2 (#248397), requested 2817 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: 109088
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 792 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1100
hibernate (#651194), requested 51 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7249
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1339 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 4557
jove (#470185), requested 1418 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 878
kvm (#479951), requested 1359 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: 2611
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 827 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 (48 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16477
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1069 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 19293
libcap2 (#534999), requested 942 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 (80 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 111051
libnss-db (#624768), requested 270 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2760
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1746 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 (241 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 42862
line6-usb (#652848), requested 37 days ago
Description: Line 6 POD driver source
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
link-grammar (#556010), requested 804 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: 13215
logcheck (#539944), requested 905 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 5328
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1974 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 318
mdadm (#537993), requested 918 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 16185
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1331 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: 448
monotone (#574609), requested 678 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: 308
mtr (#527482), requested 994 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 18818
munin (#655889), requested 12 days ago
Description: bug triaging - please help get munin 2.0 in shape for
unstable
Reverse Depends: mailping munin munin-libvirt-plugins munin-node
munin-plugins-extra
Installations reported by Popcon: 8602
nas (#354174), requested 2163 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas djplay gbsplay
isdnvboxclient libaudio-dev libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev libqtgui4 (15
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 55350
nn (#470187), requested 1418 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 112
openbox (#566900), requested 731 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: 5323
openldap (#512360), requested 1101 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: 112786
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1934 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: 535
openssl (#332498), requested 2303 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 (690 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 114964
piwik (#448532), requested 1550 days ago
Description: real time web analytics software program
ppp (#589632), requested 556 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: 49135
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1052 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: 8030
pyro (#530280), requested 978 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 961
quilt (#543541), requested 884 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: 12187
rng-tools (#630920), requested 222 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 584
screen (#654116), requested 24 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: 39610
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1336 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 9117
serna-free (#640976), requested 139 days ago
Description: <missing description>
Reverse Depends: serna-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1402 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
wine (#479659), requested 1360 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: 13753
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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