Work-needing packages report for Feb 24, 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: 432 (new: 34)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 146 (new: 4)
Total number of packages requested help for: 58 (new: 2)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
9wm (#660496), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: emulation of the Plan 9 window manager 8-1/2
Installations reported by Popcon: 104
aewm (#660497), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: minimalist window manager for X11
Installations reported by Popcon: 60
cvsweb (#660684), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: CGI interface to your CVS repository
Installations reported by Popcon: 157
docbook2x (#660682), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Converts DocBook/XML documents into man pages and
TeXinfo
Installations reported by Popcon: 459
doodle (#660437), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Desktop Search Engine
Reverse Depends: doodle doodle-dbg doodled libdoodle-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 39
ears (#660494), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: collection of Last.fm clients and CD-ripping tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 65
expat (#660681), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: XML parsing C library - example application
Reverse Depends: acovea adanaxisgpl afflib-tools amoeba asc audacity
avahi-daemon bist btanks cairo-dock-mail-plug-in (258 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 119025
firehol (#660524), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: An easy to use but powerful iptables stateful firewall
Installations reported by Popcon: 489
frozen-bubble (#660354), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Pop out the bubbles!
Reverse Depends: frozen-bubble
Installations reported by Popcon: 2642
gnunet (#660438), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: secure, trust-based peer-to-peer framework
Reverse Depends: gnunet gnunet-client gnunet-dbg gnunet-dev
gnunet-fuse gnunet-gtk gnunet-qt gnunet-server gnunet-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 168
gnunet-fuse (#660439), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: secure, trust-based peer-to-peer framework
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
gnunet-gtk (#660441), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: secure, trust-based peer-to-peer framework
Reverse Depends: gnunet-gtk-dbg gnunet-gtk-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 118
gnunet-qt (#660440), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: secure, trust-based peer-to-peer framework
Reverse Depends: gnunet-qt-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 29
gramofile (#660220), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: <missing description>
Installations reported by Popcon: 209
gurlchecker (#660679), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: graphical websites checker
Installations reported by Popcon: 56
lastfmsubmitd (#660500), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: MPD client for lastfmsubmitd
Reverse Depends: lastmp
Installations reported by Popcon: 182
libapache2-mod-auth-pam (#660221), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: module for Apache2 which authenticate using PAM
Installations reported by Popcon: 758
libchronic-ruby (#660501), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: natural language date parser
Reverse Depends: libbackgroundrb-ruby1.8 sup-mail
Installations reported by Popcon: 136
libextractor (#660442), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: extracts meta-data from files of arbitrary type
Reverse Depends: basenji doodle doodled extract fossology-agents
fossology-agents-single gnunet-client gnunet-common gnunet-dev
gnunet-gtk (11 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1089
libextractor-java (#660443), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: extracts meta-data from files of arbitrary type
Reverse Depends: libextractor-java-dbg libextractor-java-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
libextractor-python (#660444), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: extracts meta-data from files of arbitrary type
Installations reported by Popcon: 88
liblockfile-ruby (#660502), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: create NFS-safe lockfiles
Reverse Depends: sup-mail
Installations reported by Popcon: 131
libmicrohttpd (#660445), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: library embedding HTTP server functionality
Reverse Depends: gnunet-dev gnunet-server libmicrohttpd-dbg
libmicrohttpd-dev psensor-server yubikey-server-c
Installations reported by Popcon: 1820
libtrollop-ruby (#660503), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: command-line argument processing library
Reverse Depends: ditz sup-mail
Installations reported by Popcon: 199
mnemosyne-blog (#660504), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Maildir-to-blog compiler with XML templating and Python
extensions
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
py-libmpdclient (#660506), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Python interface to MPD
Reverse Depends: lastmp pygmy
Installations reported by Popcon: 206
pygmy (#660505), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: PyGTK client for the Music Player Daemon (MPD)
Installations reported by Popcon: 56
rawdog (#660507), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur
Installations reported by Popcon: 141
terminatorx (#660434), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: realtime audio synthesizer
Installations reported by Popcon: 458
tinyirc (#660510), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: a tiny IRC client
Installations reported by Popcon: 113
tircd (#660511), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: ircd proxy to the twitter API
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
wmctrl (#660499), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: control an EWMH/NetWM compatible X Window Manager
Reverse Depends: autokey-common autokey-gtk autokey-qt
libsikuli-script-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 1297
xcolorsel (#660512), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: display colors and names in X
Installations reported by Popcon: 288
xmlroff (#660683), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: XSL formatter mainly for DocBook
Installations reported by Popcon: 58
398 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:
docvert (#660317), offered 5 days ago
Description: converts word processor files to HTML
Reverse Depends: docvert-libreoffice docvert-openoffice.org
Installations reported by Popcon: 195
qtsmbstatus (#660855), offered yesterday
Description: <missing description>
Reverse Depends: qtsmbstatus-client qtsmbstatus-light
Installations reported by Popcon: 44
sssd (#660985), offered today
Description: System Security Services Daemon, PAM and NSS module
Reverse Depends: sssd
Installations reported by Popcon: 69
tremulous (#660849), offered yesterday
Description: Aliens vs Humans, team based FPS game with elements of
an RTS
Installations reported by Popcon: 431
142 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] gnupg (#660685), requested 3 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Reverse Depends: apt bootstrap-base cdebootstrap cdebootstrap-static
cdebootstrap-udeb clamav-unofficial-sigs debian-archive-keyring
debian-edu-archive-keyring debian-ports-archive-keyring
debpartial-mirror (45 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 122826
[NEW] xml-core (#660687), requested 3 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Reverse Depends: datafreedom-qsfxsl dia-common docbook-ebnf
docbook-html-forms docbook-mathml docbook-simple docbook-slides
docbook-website docbook-xml docbook-xsl (12 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 97013
apache2 (#646208), requested 124 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 (177 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 61841
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 752 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 53027
asymptote (#517342), requested 1091 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3052
athcool (#278442), requested 2676 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
balsa (#642906), requested 151 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg debreaper
Installations reported by Popcon: 266
bastille (#592137), requested 565 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 244
boinc (#511243), requested 1141 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: 1855
cardstories (#624100), requested 304 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 634 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: 10201
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 491 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: 7598
dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 1580 days ago
Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies debtree dh-lua dlocate
haskell-devscripts javahelper libsbuild-perl linux-patch-debianlogo
postgresql-server-dev-all (2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 14990
debtags (#567954), requested 752 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2590
doc-central (#566364), requested 761 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 221
dpkg (#282283), requested 2650 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 (764 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 122900
elvis (#432298), requested 1690 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: 390
fbcat (#565156), requested 771 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 151
flightgear (#487388), requested 1342 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 804
freeipmi (#628062), requested 273 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: 871
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1409 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 (30 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1342
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1274 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 406
grub2 (#248397), requested 2845 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: 112092
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 820 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1105
hibernate (#558739), requested 815 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7021
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1367 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 4412
jove (#470185), requested 1446 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 800
kvm (#479951), requested 1387 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: 2575
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 855 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 (49 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16763
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1097 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 19279
libcap2 (#534999), requested 970 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: 114106
libnss-db (#624768), requested 298 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2770
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1774 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: 45399
line6-usb (#652848), requested 65 days ago
Description: Line 6 POD driver source
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
link-grammar (#556010), requested 832 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: 14137
logcheck (#539944), requested 933 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 5275
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 2002 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 337
mdadm (#537993), requested 946 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 16215
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1359 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: 438
monotone (#574609), requested 706 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: 301
mtr (#527482), requested 1022 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 18101
nas (#354174), requested 2191 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: 56587
nn (#470187), requested 1446 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 102
openbox (#566900), requested 759 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: 5564
openldap (#512360), requested 1129 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: 115856
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 1962 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: 541
openssl (#332498), requested 2331 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 (693 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 117803
piwik (#448532), requested 1578 days ago
Description: real time web analytics software program
ppp (#589632), requested 584 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: 51402
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1080 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: 8191
pyro (#530280), requested 1006 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 964
quilt (#543541), requested 912 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: 12257
rng-tools (#630920), requested 250 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 589
screen (#654116), requested 52 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: 40072
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1364 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 8494
serna-free (#640976), requested 167 days ago
Description: <missing description>
Reverse Depends: serna-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1430 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 82
wine (#479659), requested 1388 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: 13898
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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