Work-needing packages report for Apr 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: 432 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 155 (new: 5)
Total number of packages requested help for: 61 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
libtextcat (#666432), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Language detection library
Reverse Depends: libreoffice-core libtextcat-dev libtextcat0 pinot
Installations reported by Popcon: 18398
svgalib (#666490), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: console SVGA display libraries
Reverse Depends: bochs-svga dvisvga fp-units-gfx-2.6.0 gnuboy-svga
lcdproc-extra-drivers liballegro4.2-plugin-svgalib
libggi-target-svgalib libggi2 libggi2-dev libggimisc2 (10 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 64454
430 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:
bzr-loom (#667574), offered today
Description: Focused patch plugin support for Bazaar
Installations reported by Popcon: 69
bzr-xmloutput (#667637), offered today
Description: XML Communication plugin for Bazaar
Installations reported by Popcon: 61
dar (#666251), offered 6 days ago
Reverse Depends: dar libdar-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 560
python-repoze.what (#666899), offered 3 days ago
Description: authorization framework for Python WSGI applications
Reverse Depends: python-repoze.what-plugins
Installations reported by Popcon: 76
python-repoze.who (#666900), offered 3 days ago
Description: identification and authentication framework for Python
WSGI applications
Reverse Depends: python-repoze.what python-repoze.what-plugins
python-repoze.who-plugins python-tg.devtools
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
150 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 166 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 (174 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 64518
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 794 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: 54584
asymptote (#517342), requested 1133 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3185
athcool (#278442), requested 2718 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 85
balsa (#642906), requested 193 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 269
bastille (#592137), requested 607 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 234
boinc (#511243), requested 1183 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: 1841
cardstories (#624100), requested 346 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 676 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: 10454
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 533 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: 7807
debtags (#567954), requested 794 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2586
doc-central (#566364), requested 803 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 219
elvis (#432298), requested 1732 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: 386
fbcat (#565156), requested 813 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 147
flightgear (#487388), requested 1384 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 844
freeipmi (#628062), requested 315 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: 956
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1451 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Reverse Depends: ghdl gnat-4.4 libgnat-4.4 libgnat-4.4-dbg
libgnatprj-dev libgnatprj4.4 libgnatprj4.4-dbg libgnatprj4.4-dev
libgnatvsn-dev libgnatvsn4.4 (2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1355
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1316 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 429
gnupg (#660685), requested 45 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 (47 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 124694
grub2 (#248397), requested 2887 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: 114225
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 862 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1161
hibernate (#558739), requested 857 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6629
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1409 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 4175
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 24 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1027
isdnutils (#661110), requested 41 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Reverse Depends: ant-phone asterisk-chan-capi capi4hylafax capiutils
drdsl ibod ipppd isdnactivecards isdnlog isdnutils-xtools (7 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2039
jove (#470185), requested 1488 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 896
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 897 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: 17174
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1139 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 19425
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1012 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: apache2.2-bin asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bind9
bind9-host bind9utils cifs-utils diod dnsutils (80 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 116382
libnss-db (#624768), requested 340 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2723
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1816 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Reverse Depends: docvert-libreoffice gnome jabref-plugin-oo
jodconverter jodreports-cli libjodconverter-java libjodreports-java
libreoffice libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core (249 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 46459
line6-usb (#652848), requested 107 days ago
Description: Line 6 POD driver source
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
link-grammar (#556010), requested 874 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: 14582
logcheck (#539944), requested 975 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 5183
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 2044 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Reverse Depends: partman-crypto-loop
Installations reported by Popcon: 299
mdadm (#537993), requested 988 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Reverse Depends: mdcfg-utils partman-md rescue-mode
Installations reported by Popcon: 16489
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1401 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 748 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
mtr (#527482), requested 1064 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 17682
munin (#655889), requested 82 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Reverse Depends: mailping munin munin-async munin-libvirt-plugins
munin-node munin-plugins-core munin-plugins-extra munin-plugins-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 8971
nas (#354174), requested 2233 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm alsaplayer-nas gbsplay isdnvboxclient
libaudio-dev libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev libqtgui4 libwine-nas
libwine-nas-unstable (12 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 57612
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 40 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
nn (#470187), requested 1488 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 97
openbox (#566900), requested 801 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: 5671
openldap (#512360), requested 1171 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap apache2.2-bin
asterisk-modules audispd-plugins autofs5-ldap balsa bdii
citadel-server (199 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 118076
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2004 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: 585
openssl (#332498), requested 2373 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 (692 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 119886
php5 (#664595), requested 17 days ago
Description: <missing description>
Reverse Depends: acidbase adminer ampache ansel1 auth2db-frontend
b2evolution bandwidthd-pgsql boinc-server-maker cacti cakephp (319
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 54555
ppp (#589632), requested 626 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: 52548
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1122 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: 8317
pyro (#530280), requested 1048 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 1124
qemu-kvm (#479951), requested 1429 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware
Reverse Depends: kvm libguestfs0 nova-compute-kvm qemu-kvm-dbg
qemubuilder
Installations reported by Popcon: 5594
quilt (#543541), requested 954 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Reverse Depends: bzr-builddeb gcc-4.4-source gcc-4.5-source
gcc-4.6-source gcc-4.7-source gquilt meego-packaging-tools
mozilla-devscripts nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-source
nvidia-kernel-legacy-71xx-source (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12236
rng-tools (#630920), requested 292 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 619
scim (#661106), requested 41 days ago
Description: smart common input method platform
Reverse Depends: libscim-dev mlterm-im-scim plasma-widgets-addons
scim scim-anthy scim-array scim-canna scim-chewing scim-dev
scim-gtk2-immodule (13 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 10968
screen (#654116), requested 94 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: 40795
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1406 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Reverse Depends: policycoreutils
Installations reported by Popcon: 8185
serna-free (#640976), requested 209 days ago
Description: <missing description>
Reverse Depends: serna-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 56
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1472 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
wine (#479659), requested 1430 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: 13935
xml-core (#660687), requested 45 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: 99671
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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