Work-needing packages report for Jun 15, 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: 453 (new: 1)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 153 (new: 4)
Total number of packages requested help for: 58 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
gresolver (#677302), orphaned yesterday
Description: graphical tool for performing DNS queries
Installations reported by Popcon: 83
452 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:
libvncserver (#676895), offered 4 days ago
Description: API to write one's own vnc server
Installations reported by Popcon: 19565
python-minimock (#677174), offered 2 days ago
Description: simple library for Python mock objects
Installations reported by Popcon: 22
remmina (#676894), offered 4 days ago
Description: remote desktop client for GNOME desktop environment
Installations reported by Popcon: 29199
vtun (#677006), offered 3 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 485
149 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:
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 864 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 55215
asymptote (#517342), requested 1203 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3193
athcool (#278442), requested 2788 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 88
balsa (#642906), requested 263 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 249
bastille (#592137), requested 677 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 220
boinc (#511243), requested 1253 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1759
cardstories (#624100), requested 416 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 746 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10539
debtags (#567954), requested 864 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2503
doc-central (#566364), requested 873 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 207
elvis (#432298), requested 1802 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 293
fbcat (#565156), requested 883 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 153
flightgear (#487388), requested 1454 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 822
freeipmi (#628062), requested 385 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1471
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1521 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1658
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1386 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 415
gnupg (#660685), requested 115 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 122686
golang (#668870), requested 60 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 223
grub2 (#248397), requested 2957 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 112986
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 932 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1132
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1479 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3796
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 94 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1027
isdnutils (#661110), requested 111 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8170
jove (#470185), requested 1558 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1093
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 967 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17179
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1209 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 19068
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1082 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 115293
libnss-db (#624768), requested 410 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2583
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1886 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 46618
link-grammar (#556010), requested 944 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 12758
logcheck (#539944), requested 1045 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5079
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 2114 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Installations reported by Popcon: 317
mdadm (#537993), requested 1058 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16133
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1471 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 454
monotone (#574609), requested 818 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 283
mtr (#527482), requested 1134 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 16732
munin (#655889), requested 152 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8579
nas (#354174), requested 2303 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 58606
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 110 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 102
nn (#470187), requested 1558 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 94
openbox (#566900), requested 871 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5649
openldap (#512360), requested 1241 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 116782
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2074 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 598
openssl (#332498), requested 2443 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 118378
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 28 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2201
php5 (#664595), requested 87 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 54031
ppp (#589632), requested 696 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 52674
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1192 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8177
pyro (#530280), requested 1118 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1104
quilt (#543541), requested 1024 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 12031
rng-tools (#630920), requested 362 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 625
screen (#654116), requested 164 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40220
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1476 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 7594
serna-free (#640976), requested 279 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 48
spamassassin (#676314), requested 8 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13340
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1542 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 84
wine (#479659), requested 1500 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13948
xml-core (#660687), requested 115 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 99726
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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