Work-needing packages report for Sep 28, 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: 470 (new: 22)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 137 (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:
airport-utils (#688537), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: configuration and management utilities for Apple
AirPort base stations
Installations reported by Popcon: 106
arcload (#688555), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: bootloader for SGI/ARCS machines
cldump (#688535), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Clarion database files extractor
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
eikazo (#688536), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: graphical frontend for SANE designed for mass-scanning
Installations reported by Popcon: 134
forked-daapd (#688538), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: media server with support for RSP, DAAP, DACP and
AirTunes
Installations reported by Popcon: 222
libantlr3c (#688541), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: ANTLR v3 parser generator C runtime [development files]
Installations reported by Popcon: 292
libieee1284 (#688539), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: cross-platform library for parallel port access
[development files]
Installations reported by Popcon: 63764
lptools (#688916), orphaned yesterday
Description: Tools for working with Launchpad
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
mcelog (#688540), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: x86 Machine Check Exceptions collector and decoder
Installations reported by Popcon: 2186
oflib (#688545), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: OpenFirmware device-tree parsing library [development
files]
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
pyrite-publisher (#688442), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Convert html and text documents to palm DOC format
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
refit (#688530), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: graphical boot menu for ia32 and x64 EFI systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 322
sane-backends (#688531), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: API library for scanners -- utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 63501
sane-backends-extras (#688532), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: API library for scanners -- documentation and support
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 61849
sane-frontends (#688556), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: scanner graphical frontends
Installations reported by Popcon: 4598
tkdesk (#688443), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Tk/tcl based X11 Desktop/File manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 105
vamp-plugin-sdk (#688625), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: audio analysis and feature extraction plugins (SDK)
Installations reported by Popcon: 10317
vrb (#688624), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Virtual Ring Buffer library
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
wmacpi (#688533), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: ACPI battery monitor for WindowMaker
Installations reported by Popcon: 150
wmbatppc (#688553), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Battery monitor for Apple G3/G4 ibooks/powerbooks
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
wmclock (#688534), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: dockable clock applet for Window Maker
Installations reported by Popcon: 227
xsane (#688542), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access
Now Easy)
Installations reported by Popcon: 42111
448 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 137 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 969 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 57498
asymptote (#517342), requested 1308 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3291
athcool (#278442), requested 2893 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 73
balsa (#642906), requested 368 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 254
bastille (#592137), requested 782 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 201
boinc (#511243), requested 1358 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1665
cardstories (#624100), requested 521 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 851 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10497
debtags (#567954), requested 969 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2518
doc-central (#566364), requested 978 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 205
elvis (#432298), requested 1907 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 373
fbcat (#565156), requested 988 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 148
flightgear (#487388), requested 1559 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 824
freeipmi (#628062), requested 490 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1898
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1626 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1637
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1491 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 428
gnokii (#677750), requested 103 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2374
gnupg (#660685), requested 220 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 125419
golang (#668870), requested 165 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 321
gpa (#663405), requested 201 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 506
gradle (#683666), requested 56 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 28
grub2 (#248397), requested 3062 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 116395
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1037 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1213
horde4 (#686007), requested 31 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1584 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3349
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 199 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 995
isdnutils (#661110), requested 216 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 11304
jove (#470185), requested 1663 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1221
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1072 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17429
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1314 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18343
libburn (#679249), requested 92 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 49358
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1187 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 118791
libept (#678382), requested 98 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 25849
libisoburn (#679265), requested 92 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 815
libisofs (#679254), requested 92 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 49180
libnss-db (#624768), requested 515 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2508
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1991 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 48662
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1049 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 14930
logcheck (#539944), requested 1150 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5064
maradns (#678460), requested 98 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 89
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1576 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 476
monotone (#574609), requested 923 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 268
mtr (#527482), requested 1239 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 15770
munin (#655889), requested 257 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8869
nas (#354174), requested 2408 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 60039
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 215 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
nn (#470187), requested 1663 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
openbox (#566900), requested 976 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 6050
openldap (#512360), requested 1346 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 120033
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2179 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 741
openssl (#332498), requested 2548 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 121527
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 98 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 133 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2183
php5 (#664595), requested 192 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 54436
ppp (#589632), requested 801 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 55023
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1297 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8087
pyro (#530280), requested 1223 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1274
quilt (#543541), requested 1129 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11854
rng-tools (#630920), requested 467 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 662
screen (#654116), requested 269 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 41053
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1581 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6905
serna-free (#640976), requested 384 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
spamassassin (#676314), requested 113 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13227
wine (#479659), requested 1605 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 14117
xml-core (#660687), requested 220 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 103875
zalign (#686000), requested 31 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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