Work-needing packages report for Jun 22, 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: 464 (new: 22)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 149 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requested help for: 62 (new: 4)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
   bbe (#677763), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: sed-like editor for binary files
     Installations reported by Popcon: 51
   crashme (#677765), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: Stress tests operating system stability
     Installations reported by Popcon: 104
   cutter (#677766), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: disconnect routed IP connections
     Installations reported by Popcon: 194
   dancer-ircd (#677767), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: an IRC server designed for centrally maintained network
     Installations reported by Popcon: 45
   ethstatus (#677768), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: console-based ethernet statistics monitor
     Installations reported by Popcon: 791
   flexbackup (#677708), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: Flexible backup tool for small to medium sized
       installations
     Installations reported by Popcon: 210
   gambc (#677709), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: Gambit-C Scheme interpreter and compiler
     Installations reported by Popcon: 79
   hfsplus (#677769), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: Shared library to access HFS+ formatted volumes
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1144
   hfsutils (#677770), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: Tools for reading and writing Macintosh volumes
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1914
   iroffer (#677771), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: IRC file distribution bot
     Installations reported by Popcon: 9
   libjdic-java (#678274), orphaned yesterday
     Installations reported by Popcon: 86
   libnet-irc-ruby (#677772), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: a Ruby library for IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 9
   libsnmp-ruby (#677773), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: simple network management protocol bindings for ruby
     Installations reported by Popcon: 66
   logfs-tools (#677635), orphaned 6 days ago
     Description: Tools to manage logfs filesystems
     Installations reported by Popcon: 62
   mkvmlinuz (#677760), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: create a kernel to boot a PowerPC machine from Open
       Firmware
     Installations reported by Popcon: 71
   mscompress (#677774), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: Microsoft "compress.exe/expand.exe" compatible
       (de)compressor
     Installations reported by Popcon: 15478
   nana (#677710), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: improved support for assertions and logging in C/C++
     Installations reported by Popcon: 41
   powerpc-ibm-utils (#677761), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: utilities for maintenance of IBM PowerPC platforms
     Installations reported by Popcon: 582
   restartd (#677775), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: Process checker and/or restarter
     Installations reported by Popcon: 62
   rubybook (#677789), orphaned 5 days ago (non-free)
     Description: the "Programming Ruby" book
     Installations reported by Popcon: 265
   tdfsb (#677783), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: 3D filesystem browser
     Installations reported by Popcon: 173
   zorroutils (#677785), orphaned 5 days ago
     Description: Zorro bus utilities for Amigas running 2.1 and later
       kernels
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1
442 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:
   emil (#678092), offered 2 days ago
     Description: Conversion Filter for Internet Messages
     Installations reported by Popcon: 30
148 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] gnokii (#677750), requested 5 days ago
     Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
     Installations reported by Popcon: 2555
[NEW] libept (#678382), requested today
     Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
       information
     Installations reported by Popcon: 17684
[NEW] maradns (#678460), requested today
     Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
     Installations reported by Popcon: 91
[NEW] openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested today
     Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
     Installations reported by Popcon: 12
   apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 871 days ago
     Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
     Installations reported by Popcon: 55211
   asymptote (#517342), requested 1210 days ago
     Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
       MetaPost
     Installations reported by Popcon: 3161
   athcool (#278442), requested 2795 days ago
     Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
     Installations reported by Popcon: 87
   balsa (#642906), requested 270 days ago
     Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
     Installations reported by Popcon: 256
   bastille (#592137), requested 684 days ago
     Description: Security hardening tool
     Installations reported by Popcon: 218
   boinc (#511243), requested 1260 days ago
     Description: BOINC distributed computing
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1754
   cardstories (#624100), requested 423 days ago
     Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
       player
     Installations reported by Popcon: 5
   chromium-browser (#583826), requested 753 days ago
     Description: Chromium browser
     Installations reported by Popcon: 10539
   debtags (#567954), requested 871 days ago
     Description: Enables support for package tags
     Installations reported by Popcon: 2497
   doc-central (#566364), requested 880 days ago
     Description: web-based documentation browser
     Installations reported by Popcon: 205
   elvis (#432298), requested 1809 days ago
     Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
       support)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 292
   fbcat (#565156), requested 890 days ago
     Description: framebuffer grabber
     Installations reported by Popcon: 146
   flightgear (#487388), requested 1461 days ago
     Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
     Installations reported by Popcon: 811
   freeipmi (#628062), requested 392 days ago
     Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1554
   gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1528 days ago
     Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1665
   gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1393 days ago
     Description: co-maintainer needed
     Installations reported by Popcon: 408
   gnupg (#660685), requested 122 days ago
     Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
     Installations reported by Popcon: 122793
   golang (#668870), requested 67 days ago
     Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
     Installations reported by Popcon: 224
   grub2 (#248397), requested 2964 days ago
     Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
     Installations reported by Popcon: 113084
   hfsprogs (#557892), requested 939 days ago
     Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1121
   hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1486 days ago
     Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
     Installations reported by Popcon: 3767
   irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 101 days ago
     Description: collection of scripts for irssi
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1025
   isdnutils (#661110), requested 118 days ago
     Description: ISDN utilities
     Installations reported by Popcon: 8162
   jove (#470185), requested 1565 days ago
     Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
       editor
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1110
   lesstif2 (#551853), requested 974 days ago
     Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
     Installations reported by Popcon: 17152
   libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1216 days ago
     Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
     Installations reported by Popcon: 19034
   libcap2 (#534999), requested 1089 days ago
     Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
     Installations reported by Popcon: 115454
   libnss-db (#624768), requested 417 days ago
     Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
       service
     Installations reported by Popcon: 2590
   libreoffice (#419523), requested 1893 days ago
     Description: office productivity suite
     Installations reported by Popcon: 46515
   link-grammar (#556010), requested 951 days ago
     Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
       English
     Installations reported by Popcon: 12657
   logcheck (#539944), requested 1052 days ago
     Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
       administrator
     Installations reported by Popcon: 5071
   loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 2121 days ago
     Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
     Installations reported by Popcon: 310
   mdadm (#537993), requested 1065 days ago
     Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 16164
   mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1478 days ago
     Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
     Installations reported by Popcon: 460
   monotone (#574609), requested 825 days ago
     Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
       maintainers needed
     Installations reported by Popcon: 275
   mtr (#527482), requested 1141 days ago
     Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
     Installations reported by Popcon: 16733
   munin (#655889), requested 159 days ago
     Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
     Installations reported by Popcon: 8658
   nas (#354174), requested 2310 days ago
     Description: The Network Audio System
     Installations reported by Popcon: 58538
   netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 117 days ago
     Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
     Installations reported by Popcon: 100
   nn (#470187), requested 1565 days ago
     Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 93
   openbox (#566900), requested 878 days ago
     Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
       window manager
     Installations reported by Popcon: 5661
   openldap (#512360), requested 1248 days ago
     Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
     Installations reported by Popcon: 116930
   openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2081 days ago
     Description: 3d scenegraph
     Installations reported by Popcon: 619
   openssl (#332498), requested 2450 days ago
     Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
       cryptographic tools
     Installations reported by Popcon: 118483
   par2cmdline (#673225), requested 35 days ago
     Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
       files
     Installations reported by Popcon: 2185
   php5 (#664595), requested 94 days ago
     Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
     Installations reported by Popcon: 54089
   ppp (#589632), requested 703 days ago
     Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
     Installations reported by Popcon: 52675
   proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1199 days ago
     Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
     Installations reported by Popcon: 8149
   pyro (#530280), requested 1125 days ago
     Description: distributed object system for Python
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1105
   quilt (#543541), requested 1031 days ago
     Description: Tool to work with series of patches
     Installations reported by Popcon: 11968
   rng-tools (#630920), requested 369 days ago
     Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
     Installations reported by Popcon: 628
   screen (#654116), requested 171 days ago
     Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
     Installations reported by Popcon: 40313
   sepolgen (#483641), requested 1483 days ago
     Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
     Installations reported by Popcon: 7544
   serna-free (#640976), requested 286 days ago
     Description: Graphical XML editor
     Installations reported by Popcon: 49
   spamassassin (#676314), requested 15 days ago
     Description: seeking co-maintainers
     Installations reported by Popcon: 13345
   sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1549 days ago
     Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
     Installations reported by Popcon: 85
   wine (#479659), requested 1507 days ago
     Description: Windows API implementation
     Installations reported by Popcon: 14019
   xml-core (#660687), requested 122 days ago
     Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
     Installations reported by Popcon: 99816
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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