Work-needing packages report for May 4, 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: 407 (new: 4)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 167 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 60 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
autofs5 (#671435), orphaned today
Installations reported by Popcon: 3210
fsvs (#671349), orphaned today
Description: ENOTIME
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
mpc123 (#671206), orphaned yesterday
Description: Command-line Musepack audio player
Installations reported by Popcon: 152
wcalc (#671207), orphaned yesterday
Description: A flexible command-line scientific calculator
Installations reported by Popcon: 336
403 older packages have been omitted from this listing, 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:
gnome-dvb-daemon (#671049), offered 2 days ago
Description: daemon to setup your DVB devices, record and watch TV
shows and browse EPG
Installations reported by Popcon: 527
listen (#670889), offered 3 days ago
Description: music player and manager for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 276
rubber (#670755), offered 5 days ago
Description: automated system for building LaTeX documents
Installations reported by Popcon: 1459
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 822 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 53959
asymptote (#517342), requested 1161 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3191
athcool (#278442), requested 2746 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 89
balsa (#642906), requested 221 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 254
bastille (#592137), requested 635 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 229
boinc (#511243), requested 1211 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1789
cardstories (#624100), requested 374 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 704 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10362
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 561 days ago
Description: configures encrypted block devices
Installations reported by Popcon: 7711
debtags (#567954), requested 822 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2480
doc-central (#566364), requested 831 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 210
elvis (#432298), requested 1760 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 370
fbcat (#565156), requested 841 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 151
flightgear (#487388), requested 1412 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 822
freeipmi (#628062), requested 343 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1295
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1479 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1663
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1344 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 432
gnupg (#660685), requested 73 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 121375
golang (#668870), requested 18 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 194
grub2 (#248397), requested 2915 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 111519
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 890 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1134
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1437 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3940
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 52 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1005
isdnutils (#661110), requested 69 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8160
jove (#470185), requested 1516 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1145
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 925 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 16927
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1167 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18902
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1040 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 113743
libnss-db (#624768), requested 368 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2612
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1844 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 45699
line6-usb (#652848), requested 135 days ago
Description: Line 6 POD driver source
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
link-grammar (#556010), requested 902 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 14146
logcheck (#539944), requested 1003 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5048
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 2072 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Installations reported by Popcon: 304
mdadm (#537993), requested 1016 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16037
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1429 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 452
monotone (#574609), requested 776 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 286
mtr (#527482), requested 1092 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 16913
munin (#655889), requested 110 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8535
nas (#354174), requested 2261 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 56799
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 68 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 99
nn (#470187), requested 1516 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
openbox (#566900), requested 829 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5576
openldap (#512360), requested 1199 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 115319
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2032 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 608
openssl (#332498), requested 2401 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 116916
php5 (#664595), requested 45 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 53531
ppp (#589632), requested 654 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 51692
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1150 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8100
pyro (#530280), requested 1076 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1062
qemu-kvm (#479951), requested 1457 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware
Installations reported by Popcon: 5643
quilt (#543541), requested 982 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 12066
rng-tools (#630920), requested 320 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 621
scim (#661106), requested 69 days ago
Description: smart common input method platform
Installations reported by Popcon: 10809
screen (#654116), requested 122 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 39934
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1434 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 7847
serna-free (#640976), requested 237 days ago
Description: <missing description>
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1500 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 84
wine (#479659), requested 1458 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13449
xml-core (#660687), requested 73 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 97589
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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