Work-needing packages report for Oct 25, 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: 535 (new: 5)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 160 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 56 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
libtext-vcard-perl (#726785), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: parse, edit and create multiple vCards
Installations reported by Popcon: 112
libtext-vfile-asdata-perl (#726786), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: generic perl module to read and write vfile files
Reverse Depends: libdata-ical-perl libical-parser-perl
librdf-vcard-perl libtext-vcard-perl
Installations reported by Popcon: 708
nautilus-actions (#727124), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: nautilus extension to configure programs to launch
Reverse Depends: qnapi-gnome
Installations reported by Popcon: 2519
svn-buildpackage (#726770), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: helper programs to maintain Debian packages with
Subversion
Reverse Depends: svn-autoreleasedeb
Installations reported by Popcon: 1465
tslib (#726769), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: touch screen library
Reverse Depends: ia32-libs-i386 libdirectfb-1.2-9 libsdl1.2-dev
libsdl1.2debian libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-dev libts-0.0-0
libts-0.0-0-dbg libts-bin libts-dev (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 106119
530 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 160 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 1361 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: ept-cache fuss-launcher goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 78294
asymptote (#517342), requested 1700 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3987
athcool (#278442), requested 3285 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 58
balsa (#642906), requested 760 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 840
cardstories (#624100), requested 913 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 1243 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromium chromium-dbg chromium-l10n mozplugger
Installations reported by Popcon: 21384
cups (#532097), requested 1601 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
(61 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 128949
debtags (#567954), requested 1361 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2432
fbcat (#565156), requested 1380 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 159
freeipmi (#628062), requested 882 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: 3920
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 2018 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: 1071
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1883 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 496
gnokii (#677750), requested 495 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: 1902
gnupg (#660685), requested 612 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 (51 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 157953
gpa (#663405), requested 593 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 632
gradle (#683666), requested 448 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Reverse Depends: gradle libgradle-plugins-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
gridengine (#703256), requested 221 days ago
Description: Distributed resource management
Reverse Depends: gridengine-client gridengine-drmaa-dev
gridengine-exec gridengine-master gridengine-qmon logol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1239
grub2 (#248397), requested 3454 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: 150522
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1429 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1436
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1976 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 2150
iproute (#705169), requested 197 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 guestfsd heartbeat (35 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 155214
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 591 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1140
isdnutils (#661110), requested 608 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Reverse Depends: asterisk-chan-capi capi4hylafax capiutils drdsl
ffgtk ibod ipppd isdnactivecards isdnlog isdnutils-xtools (6 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8420
jmol (#719330), requested 75 days ago
Description: Molecular Viewer
Reverse Depends: jalview jmol jmol-applet libbiojava3.0-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 316
jove (#470185), requested 2055 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1392
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1464 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Reverse Depends: cmucl-clm grass-gui gridengine-qmon ia32-libs-i386
lesstif-bin lesstif2-dbg lesstif2-dev libglw1-mesa libglw1-mesa-dev
sqsh
Installations reported by Popcon: 22728
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1706 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 14320
libburn (#679249), requested 484 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: 74999
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1579 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
(99 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 153408
libept (#678382), requested 490 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptitude debtags goplay libept-dev packagesearch
synaptic
Installations reported by Popcon: 93468
libisoburn (#679265), requested 484 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: 1159
libisofs (#679254), requested 484 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: 74799
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2383 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: 70755
libvorbisidec (#698378), requested 280 days ago
Reverse Depends: libvorbisidec-dev mpd onscripter
Installations reported by Popcon: 8753
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1441 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: 9907
logcheck (#539944), requested 1542 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 5021
maradns (#678460), requested 490 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Reverse Depends: maradns maradns-zoneserver
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1968 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: 986
munin (#655889), requested 649 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: 9578
nas (#354174), requested 2800 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: 89086
nn (#470187), requested 2055 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 81
openldap (#512360), requested 1738 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 (199 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 153956
openmx (#706711), requested 174 days ago
Description: package for nano-scale material simulations
Installations reported by Popcon: 167
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2571 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: choreonoid choreonoid-plugins-base fgrun flightgear
libcnoid-dev libcnoid1 libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph80
libopenscenegraph99 libopenthreads-dev (22 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 955
openssl (#332498), requested 2940 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 (750 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 155097
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 490 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: 13
parmetis (#706710), requested 174 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: 161
php-horde-core (#686007), requested 423 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: 46
php5 (#664595), requested 584 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 (407 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 58153
ppp (#589632), requested 1193 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Reverse Depends: ipppd kppp network-manager-pptp portslave pppconfig
pppdcapiplugin pppoe pppoeconf pptp-linux pptpd (4 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 84649
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1689 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: 8586
pyro (#530280), requested 1615 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 2071
rng-tools (#630920), requested 859 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 818
screen (#654116), requested 661 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: 45914
spamassassin (#676314), requested 505 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: 15680
xml-core (#660687), requested 612 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: 141725
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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