Work-needing packages report for Aug 17, 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: 456 (new: 0)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 143 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 65 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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No new packages have been orphaned, but a total of 456 packages are
orphaned. 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 143 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 927 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 54075
asymptote (#517342), requested 1266 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 2959
athcool (#278442), requested 2851 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 79
balsa (#642906), requested 326 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 252
bastille (#592137), requested 740 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 198
boinc (#511243), requested 1316 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1609
cardstories (#624100), requested 479 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 809 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 9958
debtags (#567954), requested 927 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2487
doc-central (#566364), requested 936 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 197
elvis (#432298), requested 1865 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 299
fbcat (#565156), requested 946 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 143
flightgear (#487388), requested 1517 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 739
freeipmi (#628062), requested 448 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1765
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1584 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1590
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1449 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 408
gnokii (#677750), requested 61 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2377
gnupg (#660685), requested 178 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 120928
golang (#668870), requested 123 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 260
gpa (#663405), requested 159 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 499
gradle (#683666), requested 14 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 31
grub2 (#248397), requested 3020 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 111813
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 995 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1128
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1542 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3386
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 157 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 989
isdnutils (#661110), requested 174 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 9717
jove (#470185), requested 1621 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1102
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1030 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 16428
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1272 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18117
libburn (#679249), requested 50 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 46213
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1145 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 114108
libept (#678382), requested 56 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 22312
libisoburn (#679265), requested 50 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 730
libisofs (#679254), requested 50 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 46046
libnss-db (#624768), requested 473 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2445
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1949 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 45475
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1007 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 13406
logcheck (#539944), requested 1108 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5077
maradns (#678460), requested 56 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
mdadm (#537993), requested 1121 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16137
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1534 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 465
monotone (#574609), requested 881 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 262
mtr (#527482), requested 1197 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 15747
munin (#655889), requested 215 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8781
nas (#354174), requested 2366 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 57036
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 173 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
nn (#470187), requested 1621 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 95
openbox (#566900), requested 934 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5496
openldap (#512360), requested 1304 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 115392
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2137 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 658
openssl (#332498), requested 2506 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 116914
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 56 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 91 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2132
php5 (#664595), requested 150 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 53186
ppp (#589632), requested 759 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 51398
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1255 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8023
pyro (#530280), requested 1181 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1063
quilt (#543541), requested 1087 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11636
rng-tools (#630920), requested 425 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 642
screen (#654116), requested 227 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40098
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1539 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 7001
serna-free (#640976), requested 342 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
spamassassin (#676314), requested 71 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 12979
wine (#479659), requested 1563 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13446
xml-core (#660687), requested 178 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 98925
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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