Work-needing packages report for Aug 30, 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: 532 (new: 8)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 149 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 58 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
ifhp (#721055), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Printer filter for HP LaserJet printers
Installations reported by Popcon: 199
jacal (#721056), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Interactive symbolic math system
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
miscfiles (#721057), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Dictionaries and other interesting files
Reverse Depends: kscreensaver-xsavers-webcollage
Installations reported by Popcon: 2040
mmake (#721058), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Makefile generator for Java programs
Installations reported by Popcon: 197
mmorph (#721059), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: A two-level morphology tool for natural language
processing
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
psrip (#721060), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Extract images from PostScript files
Installations reported by Popcon: 159
scm (#721061), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: A Scheme language interpreter
Reverse Depends: jacal libscm-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 137
slib (#721062), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Portable Scheme library
Reverse Depends: gnucash guile-1.6-slib jacal libscm-dev scm
Installations reported by Popcon: 3333
524 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 149 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:
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 1305 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: ept-cache fuss-launcher goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 72898
asymptote (#517342), requested 1644 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3898
athcool (#278442), requested 3229 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 60
balsa (#642906), requested 704 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 912
cardstories (#624100), requested 857 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 1187 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: 18929
cups (#532097), requested 1545 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: 120807
debtags (#567954), requested 1305 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2405
fbcat (#565156), requested 1324 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 143
flightgear (#487388), requested 1895 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 508
freeipmi (#628062), requested 826 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: 3483
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1962 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: 1148
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1827 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 483
gnokii (#677750), requested 439 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: 1922
gnupg (#660685), requested 556 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: 149488
gpa (#663405), requested 537 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 697
gradle (#683666), requested 392 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Reverse Depends: gradle libgradle-plugins-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
gridengine (#703256), requested 165 days ago
Description: Distributed resource management
Reverse Depends: gridengine-client gridengine-drmaa-dev
gridengine-exec gridengine-master gridengine-qmon logol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1245
grub2 (#248397), requested 3398 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: 142101
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1373 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1386
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1920 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 2241
iproute (#705169), requested 141 days ago
Description: networking and traffic control tools
Reverse Depends: aiccu apf-firewall arno-iptables-firewall
autopkgtest-xenlvm dsc-statistics-collector epoptes-client
fai-client firehol ganeti gogoc (38 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 146613
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 535 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1173
isdnutils (#661110), requested 552 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: 8221
jmol (#719330), requested 19 days ago
Description: Molecular Viewer
Reverse Depends: jalview jmol jmol-applet libbiojava3.0-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 292
jove (#470185), requested 1999 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1510
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1408 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 lesstif-bin lesstif2-dbg lesstif2-dev (23 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 21964
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1650 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 14836
libburn (#679249), requested 428 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: 68439
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1523 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
(116 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 144760
libept (#678382), requested 434 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptitude debtags goplay libept-dev packagesearch
synaptic
Installations reported by Popcon: 80440
libisoburn (#679265), requested 428 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: 1099
libisofs (#679254), requested 428 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: 68269
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2327 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
(184 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 67341
libvorbisidec (#698378), requested 224 days ago
Reverse Depends: libvorbisidec-dev mpd onscripter
Installations reported by Popcon: 8367
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1385 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: 9969
logcheck (#539944), requested 1486 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 5026
maradns (#678460), requested 434 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Reverse Depends: maradns maradns-zoneserver
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1912 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: 872
monotone (#574609), requested 1259 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: 314
munin (#655889), requested 593 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: 9422
nas (#354174), requested 2744 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm alsaplayer-nas gbsplay ia32-libs-i386
isdnvboxclient libaudio-dev libqtgui4 nas nas-bin speech-dispatcher
(2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 81967
nn (#470187), requested 1999 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 87
openldap (#512360), requested 1682 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 (204 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 145424
openmx (#706711), requested 118 days ago
Description: package for nano-scale material simulations
Installations reported by Popcon: 161
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2515 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: choreonoid choreonoid-plugins-base fgrun flightgear
libcnoid-dev libcnoid1 libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph80
libopenscenegraph99 libopenthreads-dev (15 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 899
openssl (#332498), requested 2884 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 (748 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 146570
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 434 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: 20
parmetis (#706710), requested 118 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: 183
php-horde-core (#686007), requested 367 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
Reverse Depends: php-horde php-horde-ansel php-horde-content
php-horde-dav php-horde-form php-horde-gollem php-horde-imp
php-horde-ingo php-horde-kronolith php-horde-mnemo (10 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 44
php5 (#664595), requested 528 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 (390 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 57105
ppp (#589632), requested 1137 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: 77504
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1633 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: 8371
pyro (#530280), requested 1559 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 1737
rng-tools (#630920), requested 803 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 779
screen (#654116), requested 605 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Reverse Depends: apt-dater byobu cereal epoptes-client mdm
piuparts-slave podracer screen-dbg screenie
Installations reported by Popcon: 44918
spamassassin (#676314), requested 449 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: 15155
xml-core (#660687), requested 556 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: 132785
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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