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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