linux.debian.devel

Work-needing packages report for Feb 3, 2012


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: 395 (new: 1)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 150 (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:

   prelink (#657967), orphaned 3 days ago
     Description: ELF prelinking utility to speed up dynamic linking
     Reverse Depends: prelink
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1895

394 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 150 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:

   apache2 (#646208), requested 103 days ago
     Description: Apache HTTP Server
     Reverse Depends: aegis-web apache2 apache2-dbg apache2-mpm-event
       apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-mpm-worker
       apache2-prefork-dev apache2-suexec apache2-suexec-custom (178 more
       omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 60734

   apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 731 days ago
     Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
     Reverse Depends: adept ept-cache fuss-launcher packagesearch
     Installations reported by Popcon: 51120

   asymptote (#517342), requested 1070 days ago
     Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
       MetaPost
     Installations reported by Popcon: 2993

   athcool (#278442), requested 2655 days ago
     Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
     Installations reported by Popcon: 96

   balsa (#642906), requested 130 days ago
     Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
     Reverse Depends: balsa-dbg debreaper
     Installations reported by Popcon: 272

   bastille (#592137), requested 544 days ago
     Description: Security hardening tool
     Installations reported by Popcon: 252

   boinc (#511243), requested 1120 days ago
     Description: BOINC distributed computing
     Reverse Depends: boinc boinc-amd-opencl boinc-app-milkyway
       boinc-app-seti boinc-dbg boinc-nvidia-cuda
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1868

   cardstories (#624100), requested 283 days ago
     Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
       player
     Installations reported by Popcon: 5

   chromium-browser (#583826), requested 613 days ago
     Description: Chromium browser
     Reverse Depends: chromium chromium-browser chromium-browser-dbg
       chromium-browser-inspector chromium-browser-l10n chromium-dbg
       chromium-l10n mozplugger
     Installations reported by Popcon: 9876

   cryptsetup (#600777), requested 470 days ago
     Description: configures encrypted block devices
     Reverse Depends: cryptsetup cryptsetup-udeb libcryptsetup-dev
       libguestfs0 libpam-mount ltsp-client mandos-client partman-crypto-dm
       rescue-mode systemd
     Installations reported by Popcon: 7390

   cvs (#354176), requested 2170 days ago
     Description: Concurrent Versions System
     Reverse Depends: cvs-autoreleasedeb cvs-buildpackage cvs2cl cvs2html
       cvschangelogbuilder cvsconnect cvsd cvsps cvsservice cvssuck (8 more
       omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 17682

   dctrl-tools (#448284), requested 1559 days ago
     Description: Command-line tools to process Debian package
       information
     Reverse Depends: aptfs debian-goodies debtree dlocate
       haskell-devscripts javahelper libsbuild-perl linux-patch-debianlogo
       postgresql-server-dev-all simple-cdd (1 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 14892

   debtags (#567954), requested 731 days ago
     Description: Enables support for package tags
     Reverse Depends: goplay packagesearch
     Installations reported by Popcon: 2578

   doc-central (#566364), requested 740 days ago
     Description: web-based documentation browser
     Installations reported by Popcon: 217

   dpkg (#282283), requested 2629 days ago
     Description: dselect: a user tool to manage Debian packages
     Reverse Depends: a2ps acct ace-gperf acl2-doc
       ada-reference-manual-info adacontrol advi advi-examples alien
       alqalam (709 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 120662

   elvis (#432298), requested 1669 days ago
     Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
       support)
     Reverse Depends: elvis elvis-console elvis-tools
     Installations reported by Popcon: 388

   fbcat (#565156), requested 750 days ago
     Description: framebuffer grabber
     Installations reported by Popcon: 154

   flightgear (#487388), requested 1321 days ago
     Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
     Installations reported by Popcon: 799

   freeipmi (#628062), requested 252 days ago
     Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
     Reverse Depends: freeipmi-bmc-watchdog freeipmi-ipmidetect
       freeipmi-tools libfreeipmi-dev libfreeipmi10 libipmiconsole-dev
       libipmiconsole2 libipmidetect-dev libipmidetect0
       libipmimonitoring-dev (1 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 759

   gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1388 days ago
     Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
     Reverse Depends: ghdl gnat-4.4 libalog0.3-base libalog0.3-full
       libalog1-base-dev libalog1-full-dev libapq-postgresql1-dev
       libapq-postgresql3.0 libapq1-dev libapq3.0 (37 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1338

   gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1253 days ago
     Description: co-maintainer needed
     Reverse Depends: gnat-gps gnat-gps-dbg
     Installations reported by Popcon: 398

   grub2 (#248397), requested 2824 days ago
     Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
     Reverse Depends: grml-rescueboot grml2usb grub grub-coreboot
       grub-coreboot-bin grub-disk grub-efi grub-efi-amd64
       grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-ia32 (15 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 109724

   hfsprogs (#557892), requested 799 days ago
     Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1086

   hibernate (#558739), requested 794 days ago
     Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
       disk)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 7206

   hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1346 days ago
     Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
     Installations reported by Popcon: 4556

   jove (#470185), requested 1425 days ago
     Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
       editor
     Installations reported by Popcon: 807

   kvm (#479951), requested 1366 days ago
     Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware (Need help with
       ia64, ppc and s390)
     Reverse Depends: nova-compute-kvm qemubuilder
     Installations reported by Popcon: 2614

   lesstif2 (#551853), requested 834 days ago
     Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
     Reverse Depends: alliance cmucl-clm ddd dx elk geomview grace grass
       gridengine-qmon hotswap-gui (48 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 16502

   libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1076 days ago
     Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
     Reverse Depends: check-mk-multisite dicoweb
     Installations reported by Popcon



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