Work-needing packages report for May 18, 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: 391 (new: 1)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 171 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 60 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
aaphoto (#673231), orphaned today
Description: Auto Adjust Photo, automatic color correction of photos
Installations reported by Popcon: 177
390 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:
birthday (#673226), offered today
Description: Display information about pending events on login
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
snd (#673203), offered yesterday
Installations reported by Popcon: 533
wmifs (#672846), offered 3 days ago
Description: WindowMaker dock app for monitoring network traffic
Installations reported by Popcon: 163
168 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:
[NEW] par2cmdline (#673225), requested today
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2200
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 836 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 55901
asymptote (#517342), requested 1175 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3291
athcool (#278442), requested 2760 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 87
balsa (#642906), requested 235 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 259
bastille (#592137), requested 649 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 222
boinc (#511243), requested 1225 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1820
cardstories (#624100), requested 388 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 718 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10644
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 575 days ago
Description: configures encrypted block devices
Installations reported by Popcon: 7866
debtags (#567954), requested 836 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2539
doc-central (#566364), requested 845 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 204
elvis (#432298), requested 1774 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 370
fbcat (#565156), requested 855 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 164
flightgear (#487388), requested 1426 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 840
freeipmi (#628062), requested 357 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1300
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1493 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1678
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1358 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 432
gnupg (#660685), requested 87 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 124050
golang (#668870), requested 32 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 206
grub2 (#248397), requested 2929 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 114099
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 904 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1155
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1451 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3925
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 66 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1028
isdnutils (#661110), requested 83 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8262
jove (#470185), requested 1530 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1152
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 939 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17209
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1181 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 19310
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1054 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 116380
libnss-db (#624768), requested 382 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2613
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1858 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 47486
link-grammar (#556010), requested 916 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 13748
logcheck (#539944), requested 1017 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5089
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 2086 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Installations reported by Popcon: 312
mdadm (#537993), requested 1030 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16164
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1443 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 454
monotone (#574609), requested 790 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 297
mtr (#527482), requested 1106 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 16908
munin (#655889), requested 124 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8571
nas (#354174), requested 2275 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 59179
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 82 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 99
nn (#470187), requested 1530 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 98
openbox (#566900), requested 843 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5751
openldap (#512360), requested 1213 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 117919
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2046 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 618
openssl (#332498), requested 2415 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 119584
php5 (#664595), requested 59 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 54367
ppp (#589632), requested 668 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 53544
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1164 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8179
pyro (#530280), requested 1090 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1118
quilt (#543541), requested 996 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 12146
rng-tools (#630920), requested 334 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 618
scim (#661106), requested 83 days ago
Description: smart common input method platform
Installations reported by Popcon: 11025
screen (#654116), requested 136 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40411
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1448 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 7771
serna-free (#640976), requested 251 days ago
Description: <missing description>
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
spice (#671627), requested 12 days ago
Description: Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment
Installations reported by Popcon: 3687
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1514 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 84
wine (#479659), requested 1472 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13875
xml-core (#660687), requested 87 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 100394
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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