Work-needing packages report for Feb 14, 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: 559 (new: 55)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 151 (new: 6)
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:
2vcard (#738910), orphaned today
Description: perl script to convert an addressbook to VCARD file
format
Installations reported by Popcon: 168
anon-proxy (#738926), orphaned today
Description: Proxy to surf the web anonymously
Installations reported by Popcon: 100
bustle (#738308), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: D-Bus activity visualiser
Installations reported by Popcon: 98
cadubi (#738912), orphaned today
Description: Creative ASCII Drawing Utility By Ian
Installations reported by Popcon: 71
cakephp (#738289), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: MVC rapid application development framework for PHP
Reverse Depends: cakephp-instaweb cakephp-scripts
Installations reported by Popcon: 127
criticalmass (#738892), orphaned today
Description: Shoot-em-up a la galaxian
Reverse Depends: criticalmass
Installations reported by Popcon: 319
cwidget (#738893), orphaned today
Description: high-level terminal interface library for C++ (runtime
files)
Reverse Depends: aptitude libcwidget-dev libcwidget3-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 162819
dangen (#738876), orphaned today
Description: shoot 'em up game where accurate shooting matters
Installations reported by Popcon: 84
dpkg-www (#738903), orphaned today
Description: Web based Debian package browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 389
exifprobe (#738911), orphaned today
Description: Read metadata from digital pictures
Installations reported by Popcon: 593
flpsed (#738473), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: a WYSIWYG pseudo PostScript editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 488
giftrans (#738293), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Convert any GIF file into a GIF89a
Installations reported by Popcon: 178
grun (#738098), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: GTK based run dialog
Installations reported by Popcon: 665
haildb (#738177), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Library implementing InnoDB-like database
Reverse Depends: libhaildb-dbg libhaildb-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
heroes (#738894), orphaned today
Description: Collect powerups and avoid your opponents' trails
Reverse Depends: heroes-sdl
Installations reported by Popcon: 302
heroes-data (#738895), orphaned today
Description: Required data files for heroes
Reverse Depends: heroes-sdl
Installations reported by Popcon: 305
heroes-sound-effects (#738896), orphaned today
Description: Optional sound files for heroes
Installations reported by Popcon: 294
heroes-sound-tracks (#738898), orphaned today
Description: Optional sound files for heroes
Installations reported by Popcon: 291
icon (#738875), orphaned today
Description: Interpreter for Icon, a high-level programming language
Reverse Depends: noweb
Installations reported by Popcon: 767
libidl (#738870), orphaned today
Description: library for parsing CORBA IDL files
Reverse Depends: libidl-dev liborbit2 liborbit2-dev orbit2
python-pyorbit
Installations reported by Popcon: 96330
libnbio (#738888), orphaned today
Description: non-blocking IO library development files
Reverse Depends: libnbio-dev timps
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
librep (#738097), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: lisp command interpreter
Reverse Depends: librep-dbg librep-dev rep rep-gtk sawfish
Installations reported by Popcon: 1145
libsigc++-1.2 (#738897), orphaned today
Description: type-safe Signal Framework for C++ - development files
Reverse Depends: asc freqtweak libsigc++-1.2-dev sooperlooper
Installations reported by Popcon: 1909
libsigc++-2.0 (#738899), orphaned today
Description: type-safe Signal Framework for C++ - runtime
Reverse Depends: abgate aeskulap agave amsynth aptitude
arc-gui-clients ardour ardour-altivec ardour-i686 ardour3 (157 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 165869
libsocket6-perl (#738885), orphaned today
Description: Perl extensions for IPv6
Reverse Depends: ldirectord libio-socket-inet6-perl
libio-socket-multicast6-perl libnet-frame-perl libnet-patricia-perl
libnet-server-perl libnet-subnet-perl libnet-write-perl
libsocket-multicast6-perl qpsmtpd (2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 37868
mtpfs (#738297), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: FUSE filesystem for Media Transfer Protocol devices
Installations reported by Popcon: 1959
musiclibrarian (#738900), orphaned today
Description: A simple GUI tool to organize collections of music
Installations reported by Popcon: 59
nap (#738904), orphaned today
Description: napster console client
Installations reported by Popcon: 14
orbit2 (#738869), orphaned today
Description: high-performance CORBA implementation - common
libraries
Reverse Depends: agave alleyoop balsa brightside camorama cbrpager
dasher dia-gnome distccmon-gnome etherape (61 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 96161
oscpack (#738179), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: A C++ library for packing and unpacking OSC packets
Reverse Depends: liboscpack-dbg liboscpack-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
pdfrw (#738298), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: PDF file manipulation library
Reverse Depends: rst2pdf
Installations reported by Popcon: 496
pubtal (#738100), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Template driven website builder for small sites
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
pyprotocols (#738307), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Open Protocols and Component Adaptation for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 72
python-django-treebeard (#738300), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Efficient implementations of tree data structures for
Django
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
python-xmlrunner (#738301), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Python test runner that produces machine-readable
results
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
qmhandle (#738913), orphaned today
Description: tool to manage the qmail message queue
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
reinteract (#738302), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Worksheet-based graphical Python shell
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
rep-gtk (#738096), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: GTK+ binding for librep
Reverse Depends: sawfish
Installations reported by Popcon: 1103
rope (#738928), orphaned today
Description: Python refactoring library
Reverse Depends: python-ropemacs
Installations reported by Popcon: 1388
ropemacs (#738929), orphaned today
Description: Emacs mode for Python refactoring
Installations reported by Popcon: 316
rst2pdf (#738304), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: ReportLab-based reStructuredText to PDF renderer
Installations reported by Popcon: 322
sawfish (#738092), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: window manager for X11
Reverse Depends: sawfish sawfish-dbg sawfish-lisp-source
sawfish-merlin-ugliness sawfish-themes
Installations reported by Popcon: 809
scribble (#738883), orphaned today
Description: Popular crossword game, similar to Scrabble(R)
Installations reported by Popcon: 144
signify (#738884), orphaned today
Description: Automatic, semi-random ".signature" rotator/generator
Installations reported by Popcon: 69
swi-prolog-doc (#738305), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Documentation for SWI-Prolog interpreter and XPCE
Installations reported by Popcon: 248
swish++ (#738474), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Simple Document Indexing System for Humans: C++ version
Reverse Depends: dhelp
Installations reported by Popcon: 1464
tclx8.4 (#738905), orphaned today
Description: Extended Tcl (TclX) - shared library
Reverse Depends: emacspeak emacspeak-ss mcu8051ide skycat
tclx8.4-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 503
tenmado (#738878), orphaned today
Description: hard-core shoot 'em up game in blue-or-red world
Installations reported by Popcon: 69
tex4ht (#738475), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML) - executables
Reverse Depends: tex4ht texlive-full
Installations reported by Popcon: 4613
timps (#738889), orphaned today
Description: Transparent Instant Messaging Proxy Server
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
tse3 (#738902), orphaned today
Description: portable MIDI sequencer engine in C++ - development
files
Reverse Depends: libtse3-dev tse3play
Installations reported by Popcon: 449
urlscan (#738901), orphaned today
Description: Extract and browse the URLs contained in an email
(urlview replacement)
Installations reported by Popcon: 138
xautomation (#738476), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Control X from the command line, and find things on the
screen
Installations reported by Popcon: 439
xlhtml (#738890), orphaned today
Description: A program for converting Microsoft Excel Files .xls
Installations reported by Popcon: 1199
xsoldier (#738879), orphaned today
Description: shoot 'em up game with the "not shooting" bonus
Installations reported by Popcon: 309
504 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:
luakit (#738447), offered 4 days ago
Description: A fast and small web browser extensible by Lua
Installations reported by Popcon: 253
mod-authn-webid (#738466), offered 4 days ago
Description: WebID FOAF+SSL authentication module for Apache
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
reinteract (#738302), offered 5 days ago
Description: Worksheet-based graphical Python shell
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
rotix (#738336), offered 4 days ago
Description: A program to generate rotational obfuscations
Installations reported by Popcon: 71
twinkle (#738469), offered 4 days ago
Description: Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) SIP Phone
Installations reported by Popcon: 550
zmap (#738468), offered 4 days ago
Description: network scanner for researchers
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
145 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] how-can-i-help (#738908), requested today
Description: show opportunities for contributing to Debian
Installations reported by Popcon: 240
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 1473 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: ept-cache fuss-launcher goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 79630
athcool (#278442), requested 3397 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 56
balsa (#642906), requested 872 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 812
cardstories (#624100), requested 1025 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 12
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 1355 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromium chromium-dbg chromium-l10n mozplugger
Installations reported by Popcon: 24607
cups (#532097), requested 1713 days ago
Description: Common UNIX Printing System
Reverse Depends: bluez-cups chromium cups cups-backend-bjnp
cups-browsed cups-bsd cups-client cups-core-drivers cups-daemon
cups-dbg (62 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 137132
debtags (#567954), requested 1473 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2435
fbcat (#565156), requested 1492 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 152
freeipmi (#628062), requested 994 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: 4471
gnat-4.8 (#539562), requested 2135 days ago
Description: help needed to execute test cases
Reverse Depends: dh-ada-library gnat-4.8 gnat-4.8-sjlj libgnat-4.8
libgnat-4.8-dbg libgnatprj4.8 libgnatprj4.8-dbg libgnatprj4.8-dev
libgnatvsn4.8 libgnatvsn4.8-dbg (2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 94
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1995 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 516
gnokii (#677750), requested 607 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: 1852
gnupg (#660685), requested 724 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 (54 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 166292
gpa (#663405), requested 705 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 622
gradle (#683666), requested 560 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Reverse Depends: gradle libgradle-plugins-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 67
gridengine (#703256), requested 333 days ago
Description: Distributed resource management
Reverse Depends: gridengine-client gridengine-drmaa-dev
gridengine-exec gridengine-master gridengine-qmon logol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1234
grub2 (#248397), requested 3566 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: 159183
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1541 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1503
iproute (#705169), requested 309 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 (33 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 163789
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 703 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1186
isdnutils (#661110), requested 720 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: 8537
jmol (#719330), requested 187 days ago
Description: Molecular Viewer
Reverse Depends: jalview jmol jmol-applet libbiojava3.0-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 350
jove (#470185), requested 2167 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1352
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1818 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb whiteboard
Installations reported by Popcon: 13207
libburn (#679249), requested 596 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 simpleburn (2
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 79797
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1691 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
(98 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 162035
libept (#678382), requested 602 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptitude debtags goplay libept-dev packagesearch
synaptic
Installations reported by Popcon: 111548
libisoburn (#679265), requested 596 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Reverse Depends: debian-cd libisoburn-dbg libisoburn-dev simpleburn
xorriso
Installations reported by Popcon: 1425
libisofs (#679254), requested 596 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: 79552
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2495 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: 74514
libvorbisidec (#698378), requested 392 days ago
Description: Integer-only Ogg Vorbis decoder, AKA 'tremor'
Reverse Depends: libvorbisidec-dev mpd onscripter
Installations reported by Popcon: 9344
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1553 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: 8739
logcheck (#539944), requested 1654 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck logster
Installations reported by Popcon: 5125
maradns (#678460), requested 602 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Reverse Depends: maradns maradns-zoneserver
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 2080 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: 1053
mg (#734331), requested 38 days ago
Description: microscopic GNU Emacs-style editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 341
munin (#655889), requested 761 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: 9934
nas (#354174), requested 2912 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: 95678
nn (#470187), requested 2167 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
openldap (#512360), requested 1850 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: 162518
openmx (#706711), requested 286 days ago
Description: package for nano-scale material simulations
Installations reported by Popcon: 175
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2683 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: choreonoid-plugins-base fgrun flightgear
libcnoid-dev libcnoid1 libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph80
libopenscenegraph99 libopenthreads-dev libopenwalnut1 (21 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 963
openssl (#332498), requested 3052 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 (790 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 163341
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 602 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: 14
parmetis (#706710), requested 286 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: 147
php-horde-core (#686007), requested 535 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: 48
php5 (#664595), requested 696 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 (430 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 59745
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1801 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: 8758
pyro (#530280), requested 1727 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-common
Installations reported by Popcon: 1592
rng-tools (#630920), requested 971 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 878
screen (#654116), requested 773 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: 47778
software-center (#733233), requested 48 days ago
Description: Utility for browsing, installing, and removing software
Installations reported by Popcon: 13281
spamassassin (#676314), requested 617 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: claws-mail-spamassassin fuzzyocr sa-compile sa-exim
sa-learn-cyrus spamass-milter spamassassin-heatu spampd
Installations reported by Popcon: 16007
xml-core (#660687), requested 724 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: 150917
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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