Work-needing packages report for Aug 31, 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: 454 (new: 5)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 143 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 67 (new: 2)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
courierpasswd (#686302), orphaned today
Description: Authenticate courier passwords with checkpassword
interface
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
courieruserinfo (#686303), orphaned today
Description: Retrieve courier user account information
Installations reported by Popcon: 33
php-simpletest (#686304), orphaned today
Description: Unit testing and web testing framework for PHP
Installations reported by Popcon: 64
wmfire (#686305), orphaned today
Description: very cool fiery way of showing your CPU usage
Installations reported by Popcon: 124
xasteroids (#686306), orphaned today
Description: X-based asteroids-style arcade game
Installations reported by Popcon: 111
449 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 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:
[NEW] horde4 (#686007), requested 3 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
[NEW] zalign (#686000), requested 3 days ago
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 941 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 54579
asymptote (#517342), requested 1280 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 2956
athcool (#278442), requested 2865 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 77
balsa (#642906), requested 340 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 248
bastille (#592137), requested 754 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 197
boinc (#511243), requested 1330 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1641
cardstories (#624100), requested 493 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 823 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10048
debtags (#567954), requested 941 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2491
doc-central (#566364), requested 950 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 193
elvis (#432298), requested 1879 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 282
fbcat (#565156), requested 960 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 144
flightgear (#487388), requested 1531 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 768
freeipmi (#628062), requested 462 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1808
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1598 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1583
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1463 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 402
gnokii (#677750), requested 75 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2332
gnupg (#660685), requested 192 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 121757
golang (#668870), requested 137 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 284
gpa (#663405), requested 173 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 515
gradle (#683666), requested 28 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
grub2 (#248397), requested 3034 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 112710
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1009 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1163
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1556 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3323
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 171 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1007
isdnutils (#661110), requested 188 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 10260
jove (#470185), requested 1635 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1099
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1044 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 16629
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1286 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18039
libburn (#679249), requested 64 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 46832
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1159 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 115036
libept (#678382), requested 70 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 23655
libisoburn (#679265), requested 64 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 755
libisofs (#679254), requested 64 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 46652
libnss-db (#624768), requested 487 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2386
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1963 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 46140
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1021 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 13833
logcheck (#539944), requested 1122 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5068
maradns (#678460), requested 70 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 87
mdadm (#537993), requested 1135 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16208
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1548 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 460
monotone (#574609), requested 895 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 265
mtr (#527482), requested 1211 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 15705
munin (#655889), requested 229 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8835
nas (#354174), requested 2380 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 57607
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 187 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 97
nn (#470187), requested 1635 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
openbox (#566900), requested 948 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5699
openldap (#512360), requested 1318 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 116290
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2151 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 692
openssl (#332498), requested 2520 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 117798
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 70 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 105 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2146
php5 (#664595), requested 164 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 53245
ppp (#589632), requested 773 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 51909
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1269 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 7982
pyro (#530280), requested 1195 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1117
quilt (#543541), requested 1101 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11689
rng-tools (#630920), requested 439 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 648
screen (#654116), requested 241 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40296
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1553 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6928
serna-free (#640976), requested 356 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
spamassassin (#676314), requested 85 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 12954
wine (#479659), requested 1577 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13506
xml-core (#660687), requested 192 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 100054
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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