Work-needing packages report for Jun 8, 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: 455 (new: 11)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 150 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 59 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
eruby (#676347), orphaned yesterday
Description: Embedded Ruby Language
Installations reported by Popcon: 733
gpcl (#675769), orphaned 4 days ago (non-free)
Description: general polygon clipper library
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
gregorio (#675755), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: command-line tool to typeset Gregorian chant
Installations reported by Popcon: 14
htp (#676574), orphaned today
Description: html simple command line pre-processor
Installations reported by Popcon: 35
kwiki (#675754), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Quickie Wiki that's not too Tricky
Installations reported by Popcon: 59
libwrap-ruby (#676348), orphaned yesterday
Description: TCP wrappers library for Ruby
Installations reported by Popcon: 27
netapplet (#676139), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: User-friendly network interface control applet
Installations reported by Popcon: 302
rbbr (#676535), orphaned today
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
sysprofile (#675784), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Modularized system wide shell configuration mechanism
Installations reported by Popcon: 114
tardy (#675765), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: tar(1) post-processor
Installations reported by Popcon: 58
xcb (#675764), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Pigeon holes for your cut and paste selections
Installations reported by Popcon: 175
444 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 150 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:
[NEW] spamassassin (#676314), requested yesterday
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13356
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 857 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 55487
asymptote (#517342), requested 1196 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3163
athcool (#278442), requested 2781 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 88
balsa (#642906), requested 256 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 251
bastille (#592137), requested 670 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 213
boinc (#511243), requested 1246 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1770
cardstories (#624100), requested 409 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 739 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10530
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 596 days ago
Description: configures encrypted block devices
Installations reported by Popcon: 7890
debtags (#567954), requested 857 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2493
doc-central (#566364), requested 866 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 205
elvis (#432298), requested 1795 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 277
fbcat (#565156), requested 876 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 157
flightgear (#487388), requested 1447 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 839
freeipmi (#628062), requested 378 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1364
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1514 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1637
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1379 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 420
gnupg (#660685), requested 108 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 122987
golang (#668870), requested 53 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 223
grub2 (#248397), requested 2950 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 113245
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 925 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1144
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1472 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3830
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 87 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1027
isdnutils (#661110), requested 104 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8188
jove (#470185), requested 1551 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1050
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 960 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17050
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1202 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 19136
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1075 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 115496
libnss-db (#624768), requested 403 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2582
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1879 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 46905
link-grammar (#556010), requested 937 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 12988
logcheck (#539944), requested 1038 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5052
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 2107 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Installations reported by Popcon: 306
mdadm (#537993), requested 1051 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16073
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1464 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 457
monotone (#574609), requested 811 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 280
mtr (#527482), requested 1127 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 16750
munin (#655889), requested 145 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8557
nas (#354174), requested 2296 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 58857
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 103 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 100
nn (#470187), requested 1551 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 98
openbox (#566900), requested 864 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5668
openldap (#512360), requested 1234 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 117002
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2067 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 612
openssl (#332498), requested 2436 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 118634
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 21 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2200
php5 (#664595), requested 80 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 54052
ppp (#589632), requested 689 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 52953
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1185 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8174
pyro (#530280), requested 1111 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1082
quilt (#543541), requested 1017 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 12044
rng-tools (#630920), requested 355 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 617
screen (#654116), requested 157 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40128
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1469 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 7637
serna-free (#640976), requested 272 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1535 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 83
wine (#479659), requested 1493 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 14036
xml-core (#660687), requested 108 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 99868
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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