Work-needing packages report for Oct 14, 2016
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: 958 (new: 14)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 159 (new: 12)
Total number of packages requested help for: 49 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
apsfilter (#840046), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Magic print filter with automatic file type recognition
Installations reported by Popcon: 143
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840046
doc-linux-pl (#840048), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Linux docs in Polish: HOWTO - ascii version
Installations reported by Popcon: 2312
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840048
e3 (#840049), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: A very small editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 109
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840049
eldav (#840655), orphaned today
Description: interface to the WebDAV servers for Emacs.
Installations reported by Popcon: 26
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840655
gcap (#840659), orphaned today
Description: YouTube closed caption retriever
Installations reported by Popcon: 67
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840659
jfsutils (#840110), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: utilities for managing the JFS filesystem
Reverse Depends: libguestfs-jfs
Installations reported by Popcon: 2688
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840110
kcollectd (#840320), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: simple collectd graphing frontend for KDE
Installations reported by Popcon: 44
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840320
libnfo (#840040), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: an NFO file parser/writer library -- development files
Reverse Depends: libnfo-dev libnfo1-bin libnfo1-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840040
mp3info (#840050), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: An MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 2166
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840050
ncdt (#840051), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Display directory tree
Installations reported by Popcon: 65
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840051
pam-mysql (#840052), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: PAM module allowing authentication from a MySQL server
Installations reported by Popcon: 784
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840052
pgpgpg (#840053), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Wrapper for using GnuPG in programs designed for PGP
Installations reported by Popcon: 534
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840053
python-geohash (#840041), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: fast, accurate Python geohashing library
Reverse Depends: python-geohash-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 81
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840041
wordplay (#840055), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: anagram generator
Installations reported by Popcon: 196
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840055
944 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:
apipkg (#840029), offered 6 days ago
Description: namespace control and lazy-import mechanism for Python
Reverse Depends: python-execnet python3-execnet
Installations reported by Popcon: 601
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840029
blop (#840289), offered 3 days ago
Description: Bandlimited wavetable-based oscillator LADSPA plugins
Installations reported by Popcon: 483
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840289
dodgy (#840091), offered 5 days ago
Description: searches for dodgy looking lines in Python code
Reverse Depends: prospector
Installations reported by Popcon: 44
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840091
execnet (#840032), offered 6 days ago
Description: rapid multi-Python deployment
Reverse Depends: python-pytest-xdist
Installations reported by Popcon: 582
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840032
httpbin (#840039), offered 6 days ago
Description: HTTP request and response service
Reverse Depends: python-pytest-httpbin python3-pytest-httpbin
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840039
midge (#840288), offered 3 days ago
Description: Text to MIDI compiler
Installations reported by Popcon: 31
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840288
python-jsontest (#840033), offered 6 days ago
Description: Python metaclass for generating tests from JSON files
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840033
python-latexcodec (#840034), offered 6 days ago
Description: LaTeX lexer and codec library for Python
Reverse Depends: pybtex
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840034
python-requirements-detector (#840093), offered 5 days ago
Description: finds and lists the requirements of a Python project
Reverse Depends: prospector
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840093
python-setoptconf (#840095), offered 5 days ago
Description: retrieve Python program settings from a variety of
sources
Reverse Depends: prospector
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840095
pyutilib (#840036), offered 6 days ago
Description: Python library featuring development utilities
Reverse Depends: pyomo
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840036
sphinx-argparse (#840038), offered 6 days ago
Description: Sphinx extension for argparse commands and options
Installations reported by Popcon: 22
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/840038
147 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:
athcool (#278442), requested 4370 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/278442
awstats (#755797), requested 813 days ago
Description: powerful and featureful web server log analyzer
Installations reported by Popcon: 4088
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/755797
balsa (#642906), requested 1845 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg
Installations reported by Popcon: 697
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/642906
cardstories (#624100), requested 1998 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/624100
courier (#823807), requested 157 days ago
Description: Courier mail server
Reverse Depends: courier-faxmail courier-filter-perl courier-imap
courier-imap-ssl courier-ldap courier-mlm courier-mta
courier-mta-ssl courier-pcp courier-pop (7 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2121
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/823807
cups (#532097), requested 2686 days ago
Description: Common UNIX Printing System
Reverse Depends: bluez-cups boomaga chromium
cinnamon-settings-daemon cloudprint cups cups-backend-bjnp
cups-browsed cups-bsd cups-client (62 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 172479
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/532097
cyrus-sasl2 (#799864), requested 386 days ago
Description: authentication abstraction library
Reverse Depends: 389-ds-base 389-ds-base-libs 389-dsgw adcli
autofs-ldap cairo-dock-mail-plug-in claws-mail
claws-mail-acpi-notifier claws-mail-address-keeper
claws-mail-archiver-plugin (128 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 192057
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/799864
dee (#831388), requested 90 days ago
Description: model to synchronize mutiple instances over DBus
Reverse Depends: dee-tools gir1.2-dee-1.0 libdee-1.0-4-dbg
libdee-dev zeitgeist-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 63659
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/831388
developers-reference (#759995), requested 775 days ago
Description: guidelines and information for Debian developers
Installations reported by Popcon: 19347
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/759995
devscripts (#800413), requested 380 days ago
Description: scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer
easier
Reverse Depends: apt-build apt-listdifferences aptfs arriero
bzr-builddeb customdeb debci debian-builder debmake debpear (26 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12762
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/800413
ejabberd (#767874), requested 710 days ago
Description: distributed, fault-tolerant Jabber/XMPP server written
in Erlang
Reverse Depends: ejabberd-contrib ejabberd-mod-cron
ejabberd-mod-log-chat ejabberd-mod-logsession ejabberd-mod-logxml
ejabberd-mod-message-log ejabberd-mod-muc-log-http
ejabberd-mod-post-log ejabberd-mod-pottymouth ejabberd-mod-rest (4
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 704
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/767874
fbcat (#565156), requested 2465 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 206
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/565156
fgetty (#823061), requested 166 days ago
Description: console-only getty & login (issue with nis)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1891
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/823061
freeipmi (#628062), requested 1967 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Reverse Depends: conman freeipmi freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
freeipmi-ipmidetect freeipmi-ipmiseld freeipmi-tools ipmitool
libfreeipmi-dev libfreeipmi16 libipmiconsole-dev (7 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6335
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/628062
freerdp (#799759), requested 387 days ago
Description: RDP client for Windows Terminal Services (X11 client)
Reverse Depends: freerdp-x11 freerdp-x11-dbg libfreerdp-cache1.1
libfreerdp-client1.1 libfreerdp-codec1.1 libfreerdp-common1.1.0
libfreerdp-core1.1 libfreerdp-crypto1.1 libfreerdp-dbg
libfreerdp-dev (29 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 78553
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/799759
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 2968 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps
Installations reported by Popcon: 529
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/496905
gnokii (#677750), requested 1580 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: 1108
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/677750
gridengine (#703256), requested 1306 days ago
Description: Distributed resource management
Reverse Depends: gridengine-client gridengine-dev
gridengine-drmaa-dev gridengine-exec gridengine-master
gridengine-qmon libdrmaa1.0-java libdrmaa1.0-ruby
Installations reported by Popcon: 710
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/703256
grub2 (#248397), requested 4539 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: debootstick fuel-umm grml-rescueboot grml2usb
grub-coreboot grub-coreboot-bin grub-coreboot-dbg grub-disk grub-efi
grub-efi-amd64 (38 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 188755
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/248397
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 2514 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1859
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/557892
javaparser (#820471), requested 188 days ago
Description: Java library for parsing Java 1.5.
Reverse Depends: umlet
Installations reported by Popcon: 786
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/820471
jmol (#719330), requested 1160 days ago
Description: Molecular Viewer
Reverse Depends: jalview jmol jmol-applet libbiojava3.0-java
libbiojava4.0-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 541
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/719330
jove (#470185), requested 3140 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 506
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/470185
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 2791 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite
Installations reported by Popcon: 7057
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/516501
libreoffice (#419523), requested 3468 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Reverse Depends: design-desktop gir1.2-lokdocview-0.1 gnome
jodconverter jodreports-cli libaccessodf-java libjodconverter-java
libjodreports-java liblibreofficekitgtk libreoffice (189 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 95759
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/419523
libteam (#743212), requested 927 days ago
Description: library for controlling team network device
Reverse Depends: ladvd libteam-dev libteam-utils network-manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 75464
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/743212
libvorbisidec (#698378), requested 1365 days ago
Description: Integer-only Ogg Vorbis decoder, AKA 'tremor'
Reverse Depends: libvorbisidec-dev mednafen mencoder mpd mplayer
mplayer-gui onscripter
Installations reported by Popcon: 12694
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/698378
logcheck (#539944), requested 2627 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: logcheck logster
Installations reported by Popcon: 4558
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/539944
munin (#655889), requested 1734 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Reverse Depends: groonga-munin-plugins 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: 11908
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/655889
nas (#354174), requested 3885 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Reverse Depends: acm alsaplayer-nas gbsplay isdnvboxclient
libaudio-dev libqtgui4 mpg123 mplayer mplayer-gui nas (4 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 109924
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/354174
net-snmp (#835654), requested 46 days ago
Description: SNMP configuration script, MIBs and documentation
Reverse Depends: 389-ds-base asterisk-modules cacti cacti-spine
cluster-glue corosync-notifyd cyrus-common dms fwbuilder
google-cloud-print-connector (36 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 113286
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/835654
nilfs-tools (#723599), requested 1122 days ago
Description: Continuous Snapshotting Log-structured Filesystem
Reverse Depends: libguestfs-nilfs partclone
Installations reported by Popcon: 645
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/723599
nn (#470187), requested 3140 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 61
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/470187
openldap (#512360), requested 2823 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 anope
aolserver4-nsldap (207 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 190700
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/512360
openssl (#332498), requested 4025 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 0install-core 389-ds-base acme-tiny afflib-tools
alljoyn-daemon-1504 alljoyn-daemon-1509 alljoyn-daemon-1604
alljoyn-services-1509 alljoyn-services-1604 alljoyn-thin-client-1504
(970 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 191164
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/332498
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 1575 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: 9
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/678401
pam-krb5-migrate (#724346), requested 1116 days ago
Description: PAM module for migrating to Kerberos
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/724346
pgpool2 (#772047), requested 679 days ago
Description: connection pool server and replication proxy for
PostgreSQL
Reverse Depends: libpgpool-dev pgpool2 pgpool2-dbg
postgresql-9.5-pgpool2 postgresql-9.6-pgpool2
Installations reported by Popcon: 154
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/772047
php-horde-core (#686007), requested 1508 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: 161
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/686007
php5 (#664595), requested 1669 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Reverse Depends: acidbase auth2db-frontend cakephp cakephp-scripts
collabtive d-push davical dolibarr fusiondirectory
fusionforge-common (96 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 64995
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/664595
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 2774 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: 8794
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/519175
pulseaudio (#743303), requested 926 days ago
Description: PulseAudio sound server
Reverse Depends: aegisub audacious-plugins audiotools blueman
browser-plugin-freshplayer-libpdf browser-plugin-freshplayer-nacl
browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash budgie-core
cairo-dock-impulse-plug-in chromium (163 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 126919
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/743303
rng-tools (#630920), requested 1944 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 1259
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/630920
samba (#814382), requested 245 days ago
Description: SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix
Reverse Depends: acccheck backuppc caja-share cifs-utils ctdb
freeipa-server freeipa-server-trust-ad fusesmb gadmin-samba
gnome-control-center (45 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 134634
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/814382
screen (#654116), requested 1746 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Reverse Depends: byobu cereal epoptes-client firehol-tools mdm
piuparts-slave podracer screenie
Installations reported by Popcon: 55834
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/654116
smokeping (#824712), requested 148 days ago
Description: latency logging and graphing system
Installations reported by Popcon: 887
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/824712
spamassassin (#676314), requested 1590 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: 11693
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/676314
vpnc (#818547), requested 210 days ago
Description: Cisco-compatible VPN client
Reverse Depends: network-manager-vpnc
Installations reported by Popcon: 19626
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/818547
xml-core (#660687), requested 1697 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 (8 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 182266
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/660687
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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