Work-needing packages report for Sep 14, 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: 457 (new: 4)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 141 (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:
arpwatch (#686996), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Ethernet/FDDI station activity monitor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1067
boxes (#686997), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Textmode box- and comment drawing filter
Installations reported by Popcon: 212
whowatch (#686999), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Real-time user logins monitoring tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 392
xfingerd (#686998), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: BSD-like finger daemon with qmail support
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
453 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 141 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 955 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 56351
asymptote (#517342), requested 1294 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3172
athcool (#278442), requested 2879 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 76
balsa (#642906), requested 354 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 253
bastille (#592137), requested 768 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 198
boinc (#511243), requested 1344 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1655
cardstories (#624100), requested 507 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 837 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10390
debtags (#567954), requested 955 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2507
doc-central (#566364), requested 964 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 194
elvis (#432298), requested 1893 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 352
fbcat (#565156), requested 974 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 141
flightgear (#487388), requested 1545 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 818
freeipmi (#628062), requested 476 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1853
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1612 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1624
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1477 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 415
gnokii (#677750), requested 89 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2358
gnupg (#660685), requested 206 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 123818
golang (#668870), requested 151 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 294
gpa (#663405), requested 187 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 510
gradle (#683666), requested 42 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 33
grub2 (#248397), requested 3048 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 114802
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1023 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1212
horde4 (#686007), requested 17 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1570 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3358
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 185 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 997
isdnutils (#661110), requested 202 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 10795
jove (#470185), requested 1649 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1168
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1058 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17095
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1300 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18254
libburn (#679249), requested 78 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 48355
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1173 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 117124
libept (#678382), requested 84 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 24687
libisoburn (#679265), requested 78 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 789
libisofs (#679254), requested 78 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 48165
libnss-db (#624768), requested 501 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2449
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1977 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 47676
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1035 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 14388
logcheck (#539944), requested 1136 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5057
maradns (#678460), requested 84 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1562 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 472
monotone (#574609), requested 909 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 264
mtr (#527482), requested 1225 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 15768
munin (#655889), requested 243 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8822
nas (#354174), requested 2394 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 59125
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 201 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 95
nn (#470187), requested 1649 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
openbox (#566900), requested 962 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5903
openldap (#512360), requested 1332 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 118389
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2165 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 730
openssl (#332498), requested 2534 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 119893
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 84 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 119 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2192
php5 (#664595), requested 178 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 53927
ppp (#589632), requested 787 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 53811
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1283 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8059
pyro (#530280), requested 1209 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1147
quilt (#543541), requested 1115 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11837
rng-tools (#630920), requested 453 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 648
screen (#654116), requested 255 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40627
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1567 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6951
serna-free (#640976), requested 370 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
spamassassin (#676314), requested 99 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13116
wine (#479659), requested 1591 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 14019
xml-core (#660687), requested 206 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 102196
zalign (#686000), requested 17 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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