Work-needing packages report for Jul 27, 2018
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: 1274 (new: 6)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 173 (new: 10)
Total number of packages requested help for: 54 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
dbus-cpp (#904426), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: header-only dbus-binding leveraging C++-11
Reverse Depends: dbus-cpp-bin dbus-cpp-dev-examples libdbus-cpp-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 42
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904426
jhdf (#904339), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Java HDF5 Object Package
Reverse Depends: hdfview igv libjhdf4-java libjhdf5-java
Installations reported by Popcon: 683
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904339
process-cpp (#904425), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: C++11 library for handling processes
Reverse Depends: dbus-cpp-dev-examples libdbus-cpp5
libprocess-cpp-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 33
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904425
scilab-ann (#904341), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Scilab module for artificial neural networks
Installations reported by Popcon: 323
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904341
scilab-celestlab (#904342), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Library of space flight dynamics functions based on
Scilab.
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904342
screenie (#904682), orphaned today
Description: Lightweight GNU screen(1) wrapper
Installations reported by Popcon: 407
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904682
1268 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:
cycle-quotes (#904238), offered 4 days ago
Description: Emacs command to cycle between quotation marks
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904238
debpaste-el (#904242), offered 4 days ago
Description: paste.debian.net client for Emacs
Installations reported by Popcon: 14
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904242
deft (#904239), offered 4 days ago
Description: Emacs mode to browse, filter, and edit plain text notes
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904239
emacs-world-time-mode (#904236), offered 4 days ago
Description: Emacs mode to compare timezones throughout the day
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904236
flycheck (#904240), offered 4 days ago
Description: modern on-the-fly syntax checking for Emacs
Reverse Depends: elpa-flycheck-package flycheck-doc
Installations reported by Popcon: 128
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904240
helm-projectile (#904235), offered 4 days ago
Description: Helm integration for Projectile
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904235
paredit-everywhere (#904243), offered 4 days ago
Description: cut-down version of paredit for non-lisp buffers
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904243
persp-projectile (#904233), offered 4 days ago
Description: integrate perspective.el with projectile
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904233
pointback (#904232), offered 4 days ago
Description: restore window points when returning to buffers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904232
xml-rpc-el (#904241), offered 4 days ago
Description: Emacs Lisp XML-RPC client
Reverse Depends: elpa-debpaste
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/904241
163 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:
autopkgtest (#846328), requested 603 days ago
Description: automatic as-installed testing for Debian packages
Reverse Depends: autodeb-worker debci-worker openstack-pkg-tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 1131
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/846328
balsa (#642906), requested 2496 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 620
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/642906
broadcom-sta (#886599), requested 199 days ago (non-free)
Description: Broadcom STA Wireless driver (non-free)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1889
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/886599
cargo (#860116), requested 471 days ago
Description: Rust package manager
Reverse Depends: dh-cargo
Installations reported by Popcon: 624
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/860116
cups (#532097), requested 3337 days ago
Description: Common UNIX Printing System
Reverse Depends: ayatana-indicator-printers bluez-cups boomaga
chromium chromium-shell cinnamon-settings-daemon cloudprint cups
cups-backend-bjnp cups-browsed (68 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 169144
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/532097
cyrus-sasl2 (#799864), requested 1037 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 (118 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 192757
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/799864
dee (#831388), requested 741 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: 58800
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/831388
developers-reference (#759995), requested 1426 days ago
Description: guidelines and information for Debian developers
Installations reported by Popcon: 11399
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/759995
devscripts (#800413), requested 1031 days ago
Description: scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer
easier
Reverse Depends: apt-build apt-listdifferences aptfs arriero
autodeb-worker brz-debian bzr-builddeb customdeb debci
debian-builder (29 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12769
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/800413
ed (#886643), requested 199 days ago
Description: classic UNIX line editor
Reverse Depends: apt-cacher libdebbugs-perl opensmtpd sn
Installations reported by Popcon: 20650
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/886643
ejabberd (#767874), requested 1361 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: 558
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/767874
fbcat (#565156), requested 3116 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 196
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/565156
fgetty (#823061), requested 817 days ago
Description: console-only getty & login (issue with nis)
Installations reported by Popcon: 990
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/823061
freeipmi (#628062), requested 2618 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 libfreeipmi17 libipmiconsole-dev (7 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 7444
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/628062
freerdp (#799759), requested 1038 days ago
Description: RDP client for Windows Terminal Services (X11 client)
Reverse Depends: freerdp-x11 libfreerdp-cache1.1
libfreerdp-client1.1 libfreerdp-codec1.1 libfreerdp-common1.1.0
libfreerdp-core1.1 libfreerdp-crypto1.1 libfreerdp-dev
libfreerdp-gdi1.1 libfreerdp-locale1.1 (23 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 57605
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/799759
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 3619 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Reverse Depends: gnat-gps
Installations reported by Popcon: 475
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/496905
gnome-shell-extension-caffeine (#891457), requested 151 days ago
Description: GNOME Shell extension to keep your computer awake
Installations reported by Popcon: 345
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/891457
gnome-shell-extension-top-icons-plus (#891458), requested 151 days ago
Description: GNOME Shell extension to move system tray icons to top
bar
Installations reported by Popcon: 499
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/891458
grub2 (#248397), requested 5190 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Reverse Depends: debootstick grml-rescueboot grml2usb grub-coreboot
grub-coreboot-bin grub-coreboot-dbg grub-disk grub-efi
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin (38 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 190200
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/248397
heimdal (#849325), requested 578 days ago
Description: Heimdal Kerberos
Reverse Depends: heimdal-clients heimdal-clients-x heimdal-dbg
heimdal-dev heimdal-kcm heimdal-kdc heimdal-multidev heimdal-servers
heimdal-servers-x libafsauthent2 (24 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 21903
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/849325
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 3165 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1842
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/557892
javaparser (#820471), requested 839 days ago
Description: Java library for parsing Java 1.5.
Reverse Depends: umlet
Installations reported by Popcon: 752
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/820471
jmol (#719330), requested 1811 days ago
Description: Molecular Viewer
Reverse Depends: jalview jmol jmol-applet libbiojava4.0-java
sagemath
Installations reported by Popcon: 938
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/719330
jove (#470185), requested 3791 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 305
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/470185
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 3442 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite
Installations reported by Popcon: 5025
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/516501
libreoffice (#419523), requested 4119 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Reverse Depends: design-desktop gir1.2-lokdocview-0.1 gnome jabref
jodconverter jodreports-cli libaccessodf-java libjodconverter-java
libjodreports-java liblibreofficekitgtk (197 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 92899
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/419523
libteam (#743212), requested 1578 days ago
Description: library for controlling team network device
Reverse Depends: ladvd libteam-dev libteam-utils network-manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 83703
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/743212
linphone (#880926), requested 263 days ago
Description: SIP softphone - graphical client
Reverse Depends: kopete liblinphone-dev liblinphone5
libmediastreamer-base3 libmediastreamer-dev libortp-dev libosmotrau2
linphone linphone-dbg linphone-nogtk
Installations reported by Popcon: 1765
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/880926
logcheck (#539944), requested 3278 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Reverse Depends: logcheck logster
Installations reported by Popcon: 4411
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/539944
ltsp (#895057), requested 111 days ago
Description: network booted thin and fat clients
Reverse Depends: ltsp-client ltsp-server-standalone
Installations reported by Popcon: 315
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/895057
munin (#655889), requested 2385 days ago
Description: please help with maintenance
Reverse Depends: groonga-munin-plugins mailping munin munin-async
munin-libvirt-plugins munin-node munin-plugins-btrfs
munin-plugins-core munin-plugins-extra munin-plugins-java (1 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 11837
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/655889
nas (#354174), requested 4536 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: 104322
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/354174
nilfs-tools (#723599), requested 1773 days ago
Description: Continuous Snapshotting Log-structured Filesystem
Reverse Depends: libguestfs-nilfs partclone
Installations reported by Popcon: 1253
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/723599
nn (#470187), requested 3791 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 67
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/470187
ntp (#855342), requested 525 days ago
Description: Network Time Protocol programs
Reverse Depends: bwctl-server freeipa-server lava ltsp-client
openstack-cloud-services openstack-compute-node plinth
Installations reported by Popcon: 61608
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/855342
openldap (#512360), requested 3474 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 anope aolserver4-nsldap
apache2-bin (200 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 191669
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/512360
openssl (#332498), requested 4676 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 389-ds-base acme-tiny afflib-tools
alljoyn-services-1509 alljoyn-services-1604 alljoyn-thin-client-1504
alpine amanda-client amanda-common amanda-server (938 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 192258
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/332498
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 2226 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: 8
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/678401
pgpool2 (#772047), requested 1330 days ago
Description: connection pool server and replication proxy for
PostgreSQL
Reverse Depends: libpgpool-dev pgpool2 pgpool2-dbg
postgresql-10-pgpool2 postgresql-9.5-pgpool2
Installations reported by Popcon: 135
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/772047
php-horde-core (#686007), requested 2159 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: 180
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/686007
phpmyadmin (#879741), requested 274 days ago
Description: MySQL web administration tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 17869
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/879741
pngquant (#863328), requested 427 days ago
Description: PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image optimising
utility
Installations reported by Popcon: 704
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/863328
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 3425 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Reverse Depends: gadmin-proftpd proftpd-dev proftpd-mod-counter
proftpd-mod-dnsbl proftpd-mod-fsync proftpd-mod-geoip
proftpd-mod-ldap proftpd-mod-msg proftpd-mod-mysql proftpd-mod-odbc
(3 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8056
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/519175
pulseaudio (#743303), requested 1577 days ago
Description: PulseAudio sound server
Reverse Depends: actiona aegisub aiscm audacious-plugins audiotools
baresip-x11 blueman browser-plugin-freshplayer-libpdf
browser-plugin-freshplayer-nacl
browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash (195 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 124363
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/743303
pyrrd (#876679), requested 305 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 37
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/876679
qbzr (#848879), requested 583 days ago
Description: Graphical interface for Bazaar using the Qt toolkit
Reverse Depends: bzr-explorer
Installations reported by Popcon: 133
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/848879
rst2pdf (#876681), requested 305 days ago
Description: ReportLab-based reStructuredText to PDF renderer
Installations reported by Popcon: 416
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/876681
samba (#814382), requested 896 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 freeradius fusesmb
gadmin-samba (54 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 129320
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/814382
smokeping (#824712), requested 799 days ago
Description: latency logging and graphing system
Installations reported by Popcon: 830
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/824712
spamassassin (#676314), requested 2241 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Reverse Depends: claws-mail-spamassassin
evolution-plugin-spamassassin fuzzyocr sa-compile sa-exim
sa-learn-cyrus spamass-milter spamassassin-heatu spampd
Installations reported by Popcon: 9786
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/676314
sparkleshare (#901994), requested 35 days ago
Description: distributed collaboration and sharing tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 123
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/901994
swi-prolog (#896458), requested 96 days ago
Description: ISO/Edinburgh-style Prolog interpreter
Reverse Depends: elpa-ediprolog libppl-swi logol-bin pakcs spark
swi-prolog swi-prolog-bdb swi-prolog-java swi-prolog-odbc
swi-prolog-x
Installations reported by Popcon: 1539
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/896458
torbrowser-launcher (#796295), requested 1070 days ago
Description: helps download, update and run the Tor Browser Bundle
Installations reported by Popcon: 2433
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/796295
vpnc (#818547), requested 861 days ago
Description: Cisco-compatible VPN client
Reverse Depends: network-manager-vpnc
Installations reported by Popcon: 10629
Bug Report URL: http://bugs.debian.org/818547
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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