Work-needing packages report for Feb 10, 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: 403 (new: 13)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 143 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 59 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
bochs (#659023), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: IA-32 PC emulator
Reverse Depends: bochs bochs-sdl bochs-svga bochs-term bochs-wx
bochs-x
Installations reported by Popcon: 2210
catwalk (#658918), orphaned 3 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 60
openhackware (#658774), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: OpenFirmware emulator for PowerPC
Reverse Depends: qemu-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 8215
proll (#658886), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: JavaStation PROM 2.x compatible replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 1692
python-tgext.admin (#658921), orphaned 3 days ago
Reverse Depends: python-catwalk
Installations reported by Popcon: 60
python-toscawidgets (#658922), orphaned 3 days ago
Reverse Depends: python-sprox python-tgext.admin python-turbogears2
Installations reported by Popcon: 79
python-webflash (#658923), orphaned 3 days ago
Reverse Depends: python-turbogears2
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
sprox (#658924), orphaned 3 days ago
Reverse Depends: python-catwalk python-tgext.admin
Installations reported by Popcon: 64
tg.devtools (#658925), orphaned 3 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
ttb (#659241), orphaned today
Description: Browse teletekst (Dutch) on your computer
Installations reported by Popcon: 27
turbogears2-doc (#658927), orphaned 3 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 71
vera (#659056), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Dictionary of computer related acronyms
Installations reported by Popcon: 494
vgabios (#658776), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: VGA BIOS software for the Bochs and Qemu emulated VGA
card
Reverse Depends: bochs qemu-kvm qemu-system
Installations reported by Popcon: 8838
390 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.
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No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 143 packages
are awaiting adoption. 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 110 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: 61054
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 738 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 51823
asymptote (#517342), requested 1077 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3028
athcool (#278442), requested 2662 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
balsa (#642906), requested 137 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg debreaper
Installations reported by Popcon: 271
bastille (#592137), requested 551 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 246
boinc (#511243), requested 1127 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: 1871
cardstories (#624100), requested 290 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 620 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: 9986
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 477 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: 7453
cvs (#354176), requested 2177 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: 17738
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 1566 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: 14989
debtags (#567954), requested 738 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2591
doc-central (#566364), requested 747 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 222
dpkg (#282283), requested 2636 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 (716 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 121545
elvis (#432298), requested 1676 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 757 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 156
flightgear (#487388), requested 1328 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 797
freeipmi (#628062), requested 259 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: 772
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1395 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: 1338
gnat-gps (#640532), requested 157 days ago
Description: Build gnatcoll from the sources of GPS
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 410
grub2 (#248397), requested 2831 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: 110615
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 806 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1089
hibernate (#651194), requested 65 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7193
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1353 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 4541
jove (#470185), requested 1432 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 807
kvm (#479951), requested 1373 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: 2599
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 841 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: 16652
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1083 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 19117
libcap2 (#534999), requested 956 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: 112631
libnss-db (#624768), requested 284 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2772
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1760 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: 44284
line6-usb (#652848), requested 51 days ago
Description: Line 6 POD driver source
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
link-grammar (#556010), requested 818 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: 13556
logcheck (#539944), requested 919 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 5265
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 1988 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 332
mdadm (#537993), requested 932 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 16176
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1345 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: 429
monotone (#574609), requested 692 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: 293
movabletype-opensource (#657240), requested 16 days ago
Description: A well-known blogging engine
Installations reported by Popcon: 37
mtr (#527482), requested 1008 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 18306
munin (#655889), requested 26 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: 8673
nas (#354174), requested 2177 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm acm4 alsaplayer-nas gbsplay isdnvboxclient
libaudio-dev libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev libqtgui4 libwine-nas (14 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 56085
nn (#470187), requested 1432 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 109
openbox (#566900), requested 745 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: 5406
openldap (#512360), requested 1115 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 (200 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 114378
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1948 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 2317 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 (696 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 116388
piwik (#448532), requested 1564 days ago
Description: real time web analytics software program
ppp (#589632), requested 570 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: 50576
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1066 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: 8114
pyro (#530280), requested 992 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 963
quilt (#543541), requested 898 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Reverse Depends: 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
nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-source (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12292
rng-tools (#630920), requested 236 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 569
screen (#654116), requested 38 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: 39686
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1350 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 8596
serna-free (#640976), requested 153 days ago
Description: <missing description>
Reverse Depends: serna-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1416 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
wine (#479659), requested 1374 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: 13883
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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