Work-needing packages report for Apr 27, 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: 408 (new: 0)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 166 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 61 (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 408 packages are
orphaned. See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
for a complete list.
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The following packages have been given up for adoption:
fofix-dfsg (#670062), offered 4 days ago
Description: rhythm game in the style of Rock Band(tm) and Guitar
Hero(tm)
Installations reported by Popcon: 123
lomoco (#669614), offered 6 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 187
164 older packages have been omitted from this listing, 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 815 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 54003
asymptote (#517342), requested 1154 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3155
athcool (#278442), requested 2739 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 84
balsa (#642906), requested 214 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 251
bastille (#592137), requested 628 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 235
boinc (#511243), requested 1204 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1809
cardstories (#624100), requested 367 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 697 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10272
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 554 days ago
Description: configures encrypted block devices
Installations reported by Popcon: 7721
debtags (#567954), requested 815 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2500
doc-central (#566364), requested 824 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 205
elvis (#432298), requested 1753 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 378
fbcat (#565156), requested 834 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 144
flightgear (#487388), requested 1405 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 826
freeipmi (#628062), requested 336 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1298
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1472 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1658
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1337 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 416
gnupg (#660685), requested 66 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 123168
golang (#668870), requested 11 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 185
grub2 (#248397), requested 2908 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 112956
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 883 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1123
hibernate (#558739), requested 878 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6425
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1430 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 4018
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 45 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1029
isdnutils (#661110), requested 62 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 7245
jove (#470185), requested 1509 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1154
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 918 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17166
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1160 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 19183
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1033 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 115199
libnss-db (#624768), requested 361 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2659
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1837 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 45673
line6-usb (#652848), requested 128 days ago
Description: Line 6 POD driver source
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
link-grammar (#556010), requested 895 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 14476
logcheck (#539944), requested 996 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5132
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 2065 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Installations reported by Popcon: 302
mdadm (#537993), requested 1009 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16378
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1422 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 445
monotone (#574609), requested 769 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 287
mtr (#527482), requested 1085 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 17280
munin (#655889), requested 103 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8927
nas (#354174), requested 2254 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 56751
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 61 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
nn (#470187), requested 1509 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
openbox (#566900), requested 822 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5592
openldap (#512360), requested 1192 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 116821
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2025 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 611
openssl (#332498), requested 2394 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 118568
php5 (#664595), requested 38 days ago
Description: <missing description>
Installations reported by Popcon: 54399
ppp (#589632), requested 647 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 51661
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1143 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8271
pyro (#530280), requested 1069 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1051
qemu-kvm (#479951), requested 1450 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware
Installations reported by Popcon: 5675
quilt (#543541), requested 975 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 12180
rng-tools (#630920), requested 313 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 649
scim (#661106), requested 62 days ago
Description: smart common input method platform
Installations reported by Popcon: 10867
screen (#654116), requested 115 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40808
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1427 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 8001
serna-free (#640976), requested 230 days ago
Description: <missing description>
Installations reported by Popcon: 56
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1493 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 83
wine (#479659), requested 1451 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13515
xml-core (#660687), requested 66 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 98538
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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