Work-needing packages report for May 11, 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: 394 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 169 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 60 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
audacious-analog-vumeter-plugin (#671890), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: VU meter plugin for xmms and audacious
Installations reported by Popcon: 229
dumpasn1 (#672300), orphaned yesterday
Installations reported by Popcon: 71
392 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:
cmph (#671455), offered 6 days ago
Description: C Minimal Perfect Hashing Library
Installations reported by Popcon: 29
tetzle (#671754), offered 4 days ago
Description: Jigsaw puzzle game
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
167 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:
[NEW] spice (#671627), requested 5 days ago
Description: Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment
Installations reported by Popcon: 3650
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 829 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 55768
asymptote (#517342), requested 1168 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3269
athcool (#278442), requested 2753 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 95
balsa (#642906), requested 228 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 256
bastille (#592137), requested 642 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 230
boinc (#511243), requested 1218 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1831
cardstories (#624100), requested 381 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 711 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10644
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 568 days ago
Description: configures encrypted block devices
Installations reported by Popcon: 7874
debtags (#567954), requested 829 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2531
doc-central (#566364), requested 838 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 213
elvis (#432298), requested 1767 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 370
fbcat (#565156), requested 848 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 160
flightgear (#487388), requested 1419 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 851
freeipmi (#628062), requested 350 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1299
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1486 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1686
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1351 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 441
gnupg (#660685), requested 80 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 124065
golang (#668870), requested 25 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 203
grub2 (#248397), requested 2922 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 114071
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 897 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1163
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1444 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3956
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 59 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1022
isdnutils (#661110), requested 76 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8410
jove (#470185), requested 1523 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1144
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 932 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17187
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1174 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 19263
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1047 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 116339
libnss-db (#624768), requested 375 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2638
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1851 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 47500
link-grammar (#556010), requested 909 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 14347
logcheck (#539944), requested 1010 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5088
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 2079 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Installations reported by Popcon: 305
mdadm (#537993), requested 1023 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16158
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1436 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 456
monotone (#574609), requested 783 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 294
mtr (#527482), requested 1099 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 17029
munin (#655889), requested 117 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8579
nas (#354174), requested 2268 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 58645
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 75 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 98
nn (#470187), requested 1523 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 95
openbox (#566900), requested 836 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5762
openldap (#512360), requested 1206 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 117894
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2039 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 628
openssl (#332498), requested 2408 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 119544
php5 (#664595), requested 52 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 54268
ppp (#589632), requested 661 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 53513
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1157 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8171
pyro (#530280), requested 1083 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1079
qemu-kvm (#479951), requested 1464 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware
Installations reported by Popcon: 5756
quilt (#543541), requested 989 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 12275
rng-tools (#630920), requested 327 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 624
scim (#661106), requested 76 days ago
Description: smart common input method platform
Installations reported by Popcon: 11133
screen (#654116), requested 129 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40350
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1441 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 7862
serna-free (#640976), requested 244 days ago
Description: <missing description>
Installations reported by Popcon: 56
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1507 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
wine (#479659), requested 1465 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13773
xml-core (#660687), requested 80 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 100168
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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