Work-needing packages report for May 16, 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: 589 (new: 21)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 135 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 59 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
checkgmail (#747898), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux via Atom feeds
Installations reported by Popcon: 670
frei0r (#748293), orphaned today
Reverse Depends: flowblade gnome-video-effects-frei0r
libfrei0r-ocaml-dev lives
Installations reported by Popcon: 7903
granite (#748123), orphaned yesterday
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
jed (#748256), orphaned today
Description: editor for programmers (textmode version)
Reverse Depends: jed tmexpand xjed
Installations reported by Popcon: 1480
jed-extra (#748257), orphaned today
Description: collection of useful Jed modes and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 248
sitecopy (#747543), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: program for managing a WWW site via FTP, SFTP, DAV or
HTTP
Installations reported by Popcon: 215
slcfitsio (#748258), orphaned today
Description: read and write FITS files from S-Lang
Installations reported by Popcon: 112
slcurl (#748259), orphaned today
Description: transfer files using HTTP and FTP from S-Lang
Installations reported by Popcon: 33
slexpat (#748260), orphaned today
Description: S-Lang bindings for the expat XML parser
Installations reported by Popcon: 27
slgdbm (#748261), orphaned today
Description: access to GDBM databases from S-Lang
Installations reported by Popcon: 43
slgsl (#748262), orphaned today
Description: GNU Scientific Library binding for S-Lang
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
slhist (#748263), orphaned today
Description: create and manipulate histograms from S-Lang
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
slpvm (#748264), orphaned today
Description: PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) interface for S-Lang
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
slsqlite (#748265), orphaned today
Description: S-Lang bindings to the sqlite3 database library
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
slwildcard (#748269), orphaned today
Description: adds a wildcard match function to S-Lang
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
slxfig (#748270), orphaned today
Description: produce plots and drawings through Xfig's fig2dev in
S-Lang
Installations reported by Popcon: 48
spectacle (#747631), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: RPM Spec file generator and management tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
tapecalc (#747967), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: a full-screen tape editor that lets the user edit a
calculation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
tess (#748268), orphaned today
Description: regression testing system for the S-Lang scripting
language
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
tmexpand (#748276), orphaned today
Description: text-macro processing script to create HTML and SGML
documents
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
trueprint (#747965), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: pretty printing of source code
Installations reported by Popcon: 103
568 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 135 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 1564 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Reverse Depends: ept-cache fuss-launcher goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 79780
athcool (#278442), requested 3488 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
balsa (#642906), requested 963 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 823
cardstories (#624100), requested 1116 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 14
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 1446 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Reverse Depends: chromedriver chromium chromium-dbg chromium-l10n
mozplugger
Installations reported by Popcon: 25417
csv2latex (#746158), requested 18 days ago
Description: a CSV to LaTeX file converter
Installations reported by Popcon: 161
cups (#532097), requested 1804 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: 139988
debtags (#567954), requested 1564 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
Installations reported by Popcon: 2450
fbcat (#565156), requested 1583 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 163
freeipmi (#628062), requested 1085 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: 4987
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 2086 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 519
gnokii (#677750), requested 698 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: 1762
gnupg (#660685), requested 815 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Reverse Depends: 0install-core apt arriero bootstrap-base
cdebootstrap cdebootstrap-static cdebootstrap-udeb
clamav-unofficial-sigs cloud-utils debian-archive-keyring (55 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 170041
gpa (#663405), requested 796 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 590
gradle (#683666), requested 651 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Reverse Depends: gradle libgradle-plugins-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
gridengine (#703256), requested 424 days ago
Description: Distributed resource management
Reverse Depends: gridengine-client gridengine-drmaa-dev
gridengine-exec gridengine-master gridengine-qmon logol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1195
grub2 (#248397), requested 3657 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 (33 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 163170
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1632 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1532
iproute (#705169), requested 400 days ago
Description: networking and traffic control tools
Reverse Depends: aiccu apf-firewall arno-iptables-firewall
autopkgtest-xenlvm core-network-daemon dsc-statistics-collector
epoptes-client fai-client ganeti-2.10 guestfsd (33 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 167725
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 794 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1186
isdnutils (#661110), requested 811 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Reverse Depends: capi4hylafax drdsl ibod ipppd isdnactivecards
isdnlog isdnutils-xtools isdnvbox isdnvboxserver
Installations reported by Popcon: 239
jmol (#719330), requested 278 days ago
Description: Molecular Viewer
Reverse Depends: jalview jmol jmol-applet libbiojava3.0-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 402
jove (#470185), requested 2258 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1289
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1909 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb whiteboard
Installations reported by Popcon: 12650
libburn (#679249), requested 687 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: 81143
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1782 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
(103 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 166038
libept (#678382), requested 693 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Reverse Depends: aptitude debtags goplay libept-dev packagesearch
synaptic
Installations reported by Popcon: 121315
libisoburn (#679265), requested 687 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: 1534
libisofs (#679254), requested 687 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: 80920
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2586 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-avmedia-backend-gstreamer (192 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 78028
libteam (#743212), requested 45 days ago
Description: library for controlling team network device
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
libvorbisidec (#698378), requested 483 days ago
Description: Integer-only Ogg Vorbis decoder, AKA 'tremor'
Reverse Depends: libvorbisidec-dev mednafen mpd onscripter
Installations reported by Popcon: 9461
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1644 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: 8167
logcheck (#539944), requested 1745 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: fiaif logcheck logster
Installations reported by Popcon: 5025
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 2171 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: 1092
mg (#734331), requested 129 days ago
Description: microscopic GNU Emacs-style editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 353
munin (#655889), requested 852 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: 10077
mysql-utilities (#741911), requested 59 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for managing MySQL servers
Installations reported by Popcon: 3219
nas (#354174), requested 3003 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm alsaplayer-nas gbsplay isdnvboxclient
libaudio-dev libqtgui4 nas nas-bin speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins
timidity (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 97906
nilfs-tools (#723599), requested 240 days ago
Description: Continuous Snapshotting Log-structured Filesystem
Reverse Depends: libguestfs-nilfs nilfs-tools-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 324
nn (#470187), requested 2258 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
openldap (#512360), requested 1941 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 (193 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 166328
openmx (#706711), requested 377 days ago
Description: package for nano-scale material simulations
Installations reported by Popcon: 182
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2774 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Reverse Depends: choreonoid-plugins-base fgrun flightgear
libcnoid-dev libcnoid1 libopenscenegraph-dev libopenscenegraph99
libopenthreads-dev libopenwalnut1 libopenwalnut1-dev (19 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1303
openssl (#332498), requested 3143 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 0install-core 3270-common 389-ds-base afflib-tools
alpine amanda-client amanda-common amanda-server amqp-tools
android-tools-adb (799 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 166621
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 693 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
pam-krb5-migrate (#724346), requested 234 days ago
Description: PAM module for migrating to Kerberos
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
parmetis (#706710), requested 377 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: 156
php-horde-core (#686007), requested 626 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: 53
php5 (#664595), requested 787 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 (458 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 61088
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1892 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: 8885
pulseaudio (#743303), requested 44 days ago
Description: PulseAudio sound server
Reverse Depends: aegisub aqualung audacious-plugins blueman
cairo-dock-impulse-plug-in cinnamon empathy ffgtk fische fldigi (142
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 111050
pyro (#530280), requested 1818 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Reverse Depends: pyro-examples pyro-gui shinken-common
Installations reported by Popcon: 1688
rng-tools (#630920), requested 1062 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 974
scilab (#744140), requested 35 days ago
Description: Scientific software package for numerical computations
Reverse Depends: cantor-backend-scilab python-sciscipy scilab
scilab-ann scilab-celestlab scilab-cli scilab-doc-fr scilab-doc-ja
scilab-doc-pt-br scilab-full-bin (8 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1926
screen (#654116), requested 864 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: 48459
software-center (#733233), requested 139 days ago
Description: Utility for browsing, installing, and removing software
Installations reported by Popcon: 11501
spamassassin (#676314), requested 708 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: 16026
xml-core (#660687), requested 815 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: 154427
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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