Work-needing packages report for Jul 6, 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: 464 (new: 6)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 147 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 66 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
dtd-ead (#680185), orphaned yesterday
Description: Encoded Archival Description Document Type Definition
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
jwordsplitter (#680224), orphaned yesterday
Description: Java library for splitting words into atoms
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
libnet-dbus-perl (#680181), orphaned yesterday
Description: Extension for the DBus bindings
Installations reported by Popcon: 53370
libxcrypt (#679703), orphaned 5 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 310
mod-gnutls (#680182), orphaned yesterday
Description: Apache module for SSL and TLS encryption with GnuTLS
Installations reported by Popcon: 515
php-sasl (#680183), orphaned yesterday
Description: Cyrus SASL extension for PHP 5
Installations reported by Popcon: 397
458 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 147 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:
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 885 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 55185
asymptote (#517342), requested 1224 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3159
athcool (#278442), requested 2809 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 85
balsa (#642906), requested 284 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 254
bastille (#592137), requested 698 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 217
boinc (#511243), requested 1274 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1693
cardstories (#624100), requested 437 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 767 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10351
debtags (#567954), requested 885 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2497
doc-central (#566364), requested 894 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 198
elvis (#432298), requested 1823 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 297
fbcat (#565156), requested 904 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 152
flightgear (#487388), requested 1475 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 815
freeipmi (#628062), requested 406 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1664
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1542 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1654
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1407 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 409
gnokii (#677750), requested 19 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2514
gnupg (#660685), requested 136 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 122572
golang (#668870), requested 81 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 232
gpa (#663405), requested 117 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 510
grub2 (#248397), requested 2978 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 112992
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 953 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1155
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1500 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3678
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 115 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1043
isdnutils (#661110), requested 132 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8011
jove (#470185), requested 1579 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1102
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 988 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17087
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1230 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18996
libburn (#679249), requested 8 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 47159
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1103 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 115360
libept (#678382), requested 14 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 19282
libisoburn (#679265), requested 8 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 708
libisofs (#679254), requested 8 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 46980
libnss-db (#624768), requested 431 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2579
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1907 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 46496
link-grammar (#556010), requested 965 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 12455
logcheck (#539944), requested 1066 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5110
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 2135 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Installations reported by Popcon: 310
maradns (#678460), requested 14 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
mdadm (#537993), requested 1079 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16178
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1492 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 458
monotone (#574609), requested 839 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 266
mtr (#527482), requested 1155 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 16484
munin (#655889), requested 173 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8743
nas (#354174), requested 2324 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 58411
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 131 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 103
nn (#470187), requested 1579 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 94
openbox (#566900), requested 892 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5571
openldap (#512360), requested 1262 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 116750
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2095 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 644
openssl (#332498), requested 2464 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 118368
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 14 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 49 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2157
php5 (#664595), requested 108 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 54007
ppp (#589632), requested 717 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 52584
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1213 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8090
pyro (#530280), requested 1139 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1114
quilt (#543541), requested 1045 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11882
rng-tools (#630920), requested 383 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 633
screen (#654116), requested 185 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40277
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1497 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 7411
serna-free (#640976), requested 300 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 48
spamassassin (#676314), requested 29 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13289
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1563 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 83
wine (#479659), requested 1521 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13851
xml-core (#660687), requested 136 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 99845
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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