Work-needing packages report for Jul 26, 2013
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: 493 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 152 (new: 3)
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:
dmake (#717854), orphaned today
Description: make utility used to build OpenOffice.org
Reverse Depends: libreoffice-subsequentcheckbase
Installations reported by Popcon: 340
open-vm-tools (#717381), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware
Reverse Depends: open-vm-dkms open-vm-toolbox open-vm-tools-dbg
open-vm-tools-desktop
Installations reported by Popcon: 1409
491 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:
camomile (#717786), offered today
Description: Unicode library for OCaml
Reverse Depends: galax galax-extra galaxd libcamomile-ocaml-dev
libgalax-ocaml-dev libgettext-ocaml-dev liquidsoap
Installations reported by Popcon: 498
ocaml-http (#717787), offered today
Description: OCaml library for writing HTTP servers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
xfm (#717486), offered 4 days ago
Description: X file and application manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 346
149 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:
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 1270 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: ept-cache fuss-launcher goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 72989
asymptote (#517342), requested 1609 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 4013
athcool (#278442), requested 3194 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 56
balsa (#642906), requested 669 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 912
bastille (#592137), requested 1083 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 142
cardstories (#624100), requested 822 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 1152 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: 17949
cups (#532097), requested 1510 days ago
Description: Common UNIX Printing System
Reverse Depends: bluez-cups chromium cups cups-backend-bjnp
cups-browsed cups-bsd cups-client cups-daemon cups-dbg cups-filters
(60 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 119134
debtags (#567954), requested 1270 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2404
fbcat (#565156), requested 1289 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 141
flightgear (#487388), requested 1860 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 543
freeipmi (#628062), requested 791 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Reverse Depends: freeipmi freeipmi-bmc-watchdog freeipmi-ipmidetect
freeipmi-tools libfreeipmi-dev libfreeipmi12 libipmiconsole-dev
libipmiconsole2 libipmidetect-dev libipmidetect0 (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 3231
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1927 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: 1291
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1792 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 477
gnokii (#677750), requested 404 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Reverse Depends: gnokii gnokii-cli gnokii-smsd gnokii-smsd-mysql
gnokii-smsd-pgsql gnome-phone-manager libgnokii-dev libgnokii6
xgnokii
Installations reported by Popcon: 1951
gnupg (#660685), requested 521 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Reverse Depends: apt bootstrap-base cdebootstrap cdebootstrap-static
cdebootstrap-udeb clamav-unofficial-sigs cloud-utils
debian-archive-keyring debian-edu-archive-keyring
debian-ports-archive-keyring (49 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 148063
gpa (#663405), requested 502 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 654
gradle (#683666), requested 357 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Reverse Depends: gradle libgradle-plugins-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
gridengine (#703256), requested 130 days ago
Description: Distributed resource management
Reverse Depends: gridengine-client gridengine-drmaa-dev
gridengine-exec gridengine-master gridengine-qmon logol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1256
grub2 (#248397), requested 3363 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: grml-rescueboot grml2usb grub-coreboot
grub-coreboot-bin grub-coreboot-dbg grub-disk grub-efi
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-dbg (25 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 140424
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1338 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1386
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1885 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 2370
iproute (#705169), requested 106 days ago
Description: networking and traffic control tools
Reverse Depends: aiccu apf-firewall arno-iptables-firewall
autopkgtest-xenlvm ctdb dsc-statistics-collector epoptes-client
fai-client firehol ganeti2 (40 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 145053
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 500 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1182
isdnutils (#661110), requested 517 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Reverse Depends: ant-phone asterisk-chan-capi capi4hylafax capiutils
drdsl ffgtk ibod ipppd isdnactivecards isdnlog (7 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8224
jove (#470185), requested 1964 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1415
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1373 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Reverse Depends: cmucl-clm dx elk grace grass-gui gridengine-qmon
ia32-libs-i386 inventor-clients inventor-demo inventor-dev (36 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 21974
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1615 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 15331
libburn (#679249), requested 393 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Reverse Depends: cdrskin cdw k3b libbrasero-media3-1 libburn-dbg
libburn-dev libisoburn-dbg libisoburn-dev libisoburn1 xfburn (1 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 66978
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1488 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: apache2-bin asterisk autodir avahi-daemon
bacula-common bacula-console bacula-console-qt
bacula-director-common bacula-director-mysql bacula-director-pgsql
(110 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 143154
libept (#678382), requested 399 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptitude debtags goplay libept-dev packagesearch
synaptic
Installations reported by Popcon: 74433
libisoburn (#679265), requested 393 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Reverse Depends: debian-cd libisoburn-dbg libisoburn-dev xorriso
Installations reported by Popcon: 1093
libisofs (#679254), requested 393 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Reverse Depends: libbrasero-media3-1 libisoburn-dbg libisoburn-dev
libisoburn1 libisofs-dbg libisofs-dev xfburn xorriso
Installations reported by Popcon: 66809
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2292 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Reverse Depends: browser-plugin-libreoffice docvert-libreoffice
gnome jodconverter jodreports-cli libaccessodf-java
libjodconverter-java libjodreports-java libreoffice libreoffice-base
(185 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 66656
libvorbisidec (#698378), requested 189 days ago
Reverse Depends: libvorbisidec-dev mpd onscripter
Installations reported by Popcon: 8215
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1350 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: 10361
logcheck (#539944), requested 1451 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 4990
maradns (#678460), requested 399 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Reverse Depends: maradns maradns-zoneserver
Installations reported by Popcon: 95
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1877 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-extensions
mediawiki-extensions-collection mediawiki-extensions-confirmedit
mediawiki-extensions-geshi mediawiki-extensions-graphviz
mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth mediawiki-extensions-openid
Installations reported by Popcon: 819
monotone (#574609), requested 1224 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: 327
munin (#655889), requested 558 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
munin-plugins-openstack
Installations reported by Popcon: 9377
nas (#354174), requested 2709 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm alsaplayer-nas gbsplay ia32-libs-i386
isdnvboxclient libaudio-dev libqtgui4 mplayer2 nas nas-bin (3 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 80277
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 516 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 111
nn (#470187), requested 1964 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 87
openldap (#512360), requested 1647 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: 389-admin 389-ds-base 389-ds-base-dev
389-ds-base-libs 389-dsgw adcli alpine am-utils aolserver4-nsldap
apache2-bin (203 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 143831
openmx (#706711), requested 83 days ago
Description: package for nano-scale material simulations
Installations reported by Popcon: 174
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2480 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: choreonoid choreonoid-plugins-base fgrun flightgear
libcnoid-dev libcnoid1 libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph80
libopenthreads-dev libopenwalnut1 (14 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 921
openssl (#332498), requested 2849 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 3270-common 389-ds-base afflib-tools alpine
amanda-client amanda-common amanda-server android-tools-adb
anon-proxy aolserver4-nsopenssl (730 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 145007
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 399 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Reverse Depends: openvanilla-imgeneric-data-all
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-ja openvanilla-imgeneric-data-ko
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-th openvanilla-imgeneric-data-vi
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-zh-cn openvanilla-imgeneric-data-zh-hk
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-zh-tw ucimf-openvanilla
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
parmetis (#706710), requested 83 days ago (non-free)
Reverse Depends: libparmetis-dev libsuitesparse-metis-3.1.0
libsuitesparse-metis-dbg libsuitesparse-metis-dev parmetis-test
Installations reported by Popcon: 185
php-horde-core (#686007), requested 332 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
Reverse Depends: php-horde php-horde-content php-horde-dav
php-horde-form php-horde-gollem php-horde-imp php-horde-ingo
php-horde-kronolith php-horde-mnemo php-horde-nag (9 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
php5 (#664595), requested 493 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Reverse Depends: adminer ampache auth2db-frontend cacti cakephp
cakephp-instaweb cakephp-scripts collabtive d-push davical (381 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 57237
ppp (#589632), requested 1102 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Reverse Depends: ipppd kppp network-manager-pptp portslave pppconfig
pppdcapiplugin pppoe pppoeconf pptp-linux pptpd (6 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 75757
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1598 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: 8330
pyro (#530280), requested 1524 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 1720
rng-tools (#630920), requested 768 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 750
screen (#654116), requested 570 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Reverse Depends: apt-dater byobu cereal epoptes-client mdm
piuparts-slave podracer screenie
Installations reported by Popcon: 44834
spamassassin (#676314), requested 414 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: claws-mail-spamassassin fuzzyocr sa-exim
sa-learn-cyrus spamass-milter spamassassin-heatu spampd
Installations reported by Popcon: 15073
worldwind (#693296), requested 252 days ago (non-free)
Description: 3D Virtual Globe
Reverse Depends: worldwind
Installations reported by Popcon: 248
xml-core (#660687), requested 521 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Reverse Depends: dia-common docbook-ebnf docbook-mathml
docbook-simple docbook-slides docbook-website docbook-xml
docbook-xsl docbook-xsl-ns docbook2x (11 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 130885
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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