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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