Work-needing packages report for Jan 3, 2014
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: 541 (new: 18)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 156 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 55 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
buxon (#733528), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: SIOC forums browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
gaffitter (#733530), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: File subsets extractor based on genetic algorithms
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
genisovh (#733692), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Make CD-ROMs bootable for SGI MIPS machines
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
libapp-info-perl (#733549), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Provide metadata about software packages installed
Installations reported by Popcon: 41
libclass-contract-perl (#733548), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Design-by-Contract OO in Perl
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
libclass-delegator-perl (#733550), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Perl module for a simple and fast object-oriented
delegation
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
libconvert-ber-perl (#733552), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Perl implementation of Basic Encoding Rules (BER)
Installations reported by Popcon: 345
libnet-smtpauth-perl (#733553), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Perl module that provides SMTP authentication
(Net::SMTP_auth)
Installations reported by Popcon: 174
libsvn-notify-perl (#733558), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Subversion activity notification
Reverse Depends: libsvn-hooks-perl libsvn-notify-mirror-perl
Installations reported by Popcon: 111
libtest-cmd-perl (#733559), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: perl module which provides a testing framework
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
libtext-trac-perl (#733560), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: format text with Trac Wiki Style
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
libtext-worddiff-perl (#733561), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Track changes between documents
Installations reported by Popcon: 26
metacafe-dl (#733531), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: download videos from metacafe.com
Installations reported by Popcon: 73
pdfcrack (#733525), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: PDF files password cracker
Installations reported by Popcon: 1036
pysesame (#733533), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Python wrapper for Sesame's REST HTTP API
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
shell-fm (#733534), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: console based player for last.fm radio streams
Installations reported by Popcon: 82
sks-ecc (#733536), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Cryptographic tool based on ECC
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
swaml (#733540), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Semantic Web Archive of Mailing Lists
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
523 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:
cvs2cl (#733321), offered 5 days ago
Description: CVS-log-message-to-ChangeLog conversion script
Installations reported by Popcon: 145
dxflib (#733823), offered 2 days ago
Reverse Depends: libdxflib-2.5.0.0-dbg libdxflib-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 44
154 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] software-center (#733233), requested 6 days ago
Description: Utility for browsing, installing, and removing software
Installations reported by Popcon: 14173
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 1431 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: ept-cache fuss-launcher goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 76561
athcool (#278442), requested 3355 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
balsa (#642906), requested 830 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 806
cardstories (#624100), requested 983 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 11
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 1313 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromium chromium-dbg chromium-l10n mozplugger
Installations reported by Popcon: 23095
cups (#532097), requested 1671 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
(58 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 130853
debtags (#567954), requested 1431 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2406
fbcat (#565156), requested 1450 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 149
freeipmi (#628062), requested 952 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: 4248
gnat-4.4 (#539562), requested 2093 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: dh-ada-library ghdl gnat-4.4 libgnat-4.4
libgnat-4.4-dbg libgnatprj-dev libgnatprj4.4 libgnatprj4.4-dbg
libgnatprj4.4-dev libgnatvsn-dev (3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 992
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1953 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 522
gnokii (#677750), requested 565 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: 1810
gnupg (#660685), requested 682 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 (53 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 159582
gpa (#663405), requested 663 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 627
gradle (#683666), requested 518 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Reverse Depends: gradle libgradle-plugins-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
gridengine (#703256), requested 291 days ago
Description: Distributed resource management
Reverse Depends: gridengine-client gridengine-drmaa-dev
gridengine-exec gridengine-master gridengine-qmon logol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1233
grub2 (#248397), requested 3524 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 (26 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 152405
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1499 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1473
iproute (#705169), requested 267 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 ganeti guestfsd heartbeat (34 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 156977
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 661 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1176
isdnutils (#661110), requested 678 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Reverse Depends: asterisk-chan-capi capi4hylafax capiutils drdsl
ffgtk ibod ipppd isdnactivecards isdnlog isdnutils-xtools (5 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8408
jmol (#719330), requested 145 days ago
Description: Molecular Viewer
Reverse Depends: jalview jmol jmol-applet libbiojava3.0-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 351
jove (#470185), requested 2125 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1354
ldc (#730798), requested 34 days ago
Description: LLVM D Compiler
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1776 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb whiteboard
Installations reported by Popcon: 13440
libburn (#679249), requested 554 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: 75511
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1649 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Reverse Depends: asterisk autodir avahi-daemon bacula-common
bacula-console bacula-console-qt bacula-director-common
bacula-director-mysql bacula-director-pgsql bacula-director-sqlite3
(97 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 155285
libept (#678382), requested 560 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptitude debtags goplay libept-dev packagesearch
synaptic
Installations reported by Popcon: 102288
libisoburn (#679265), requested 554 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: 1313
libisofs (#679254), requested 554 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: 75276
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2453 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: 69086
libvorbisidec (#698378), requested 350 days ago
Description: Integer-only Ogg Vorbis decoder, AKA 'tremor'
Reverse Depends: libvorbisidec-dev mpd onscripter
Installations reported by Popcon: 9053
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1511 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Reverse Depends: abiword-plugin-grammar libgrammar4 liblink-grammar4
liblink-grammar4-dev liblink-grammar4-java link-grammar
Installations reported by Popcon: 8785
logcheck (#539944), requested 1612 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck
Installations reported by Popcon: 5036
maradns (#678460), requested 560 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Reverse Depends: maradns maradns-zoneserver
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 2038 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Reverse Depends: mediawiki-extensions
mediawiki-extensions-collection mediawiki-extensions-geshi
mediawiki-extensions-graphviz mediawiki-extensions-ldapauth
mediawiki-extensions-openid
Installations reported by Popcon: 1041
munin (#655889), requested 719 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: 9725
nas (#354174), requested 2870 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm alsaplayer-nas gbsplay isdnvboxclient
libaudio-dev libqtgui4 nas nas-bin speech-dispatcher timidity (1
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 90839
nn (#470187), requested 2125 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 83
openldap (#512360), requested 1808 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 (202 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 155802
openmx (#706711), requested 244 days ago
Description: package for nano-scale material simulations
Installations reported by Popcon: 178
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2641 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: 927
openssl (#332498), requested 3010 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 amqp-tools
android-tools-adb anon-proxy (778 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 156772
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 560 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: 15
parmetis (#706710), requested 244 days ago (non-free)
Description: Parallel Graph Partitioning and Sparse Matrix Ordering
Tests
Reverse Depends: libparmetis-dev libsuitesparse-metis-3.1.0
libsuitesparse-metis-dbg libsuitesparse-metis-dev parmetis-test
Installations reported by Popcon: 154
php-horde-core (#686007), requested 493 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: 45
php5 (#664595), requested 654 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 (425 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 58399
ppp (#589632), requested 1263 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: 86039
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1759 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: 8660
pyro (#530280), requested 1685 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-common
Installations reported by Popcon: 1533
rng-tools (#630920), requested 929 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 855
screen (#654116), requested 731 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: 46419
spamassassin (#676314), requested 575 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: 15387
xml-core (#660687), requested 682 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: 143978
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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