Work-needing packages report for Jun 29, 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: 467 (new: 11)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 147 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 66 (new: 3)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
anubis (#678862), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: SMTP message submission daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
cfi (#678875), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Copyright does not exist, book about hacker culture
Installations reported by Popcon: 61
ckport (#679236), orphaned yesterday
Description: portability analysis and security checking tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
clamfs (#678863), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: user-space anti-virus protected file system
Installations reported by Popcon: 235
elfrc (#678874), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: convert arbitrary files into elf objects
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
esekeyd (#678864), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: multimedia keyboard daemon for Linux
Installations reported by Popcon: 17
php-codesniffer (#679251), orphaned yesterday
Description: PHP, CSS and JavaScript coding standard analyzer and
checker
Installations reported by Popcon: 150
sysadmin-guide (#678876), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: The Linux System Administrators' Guide
Installations reported by Popcon: 281
uvccapture (#678860), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: USB UVC Video Class snapshot software
Installations reported by Popcon: 567
wbar (#678865), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: light and fast launch bar
Installations reported by Popcon: 348
zoph (#679417), orphaned today
Description: Web based digital image presentation and management
system
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
456 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:
animals (#679235), offered yesterday
Description: Traditional AI animal guessing engine using a binary
tree DB
Installations reported by Popcon: 226
maildir-bulletin (#678926), offered 3 days ago
Description: Deliver bulletins directly to the users' Maildir.
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
145 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] libburn (#679249), requested yesterday
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 47118
[NEW] libisoburn (#679265), requested yesterday
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 707
[NEW] libisofs (#679254), requested yesterday
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 46952
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 878 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 55239
asymptote (#517342), requested 1217 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3195
athcool (#278442), requested 2802 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 85
balsa (#642906), requested 277 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 252
bastille (#592137), requested 691 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 223
boinc (#511243), requested 1267 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1716
cardstories (#624100), requested 430 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 760 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10459
debtags (#567954), requested 878 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2493
doc-central (#566364), requested 887 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 202
elvis (#432298), requested 1816 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 295
fbcat (#565156), requested 897 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 150
flightgear (#487388), requested 1468 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 802
freeipmi (#628062), requested 399 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1617
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1535 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1653
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1400 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 399
gnokii (#677750), requested 12 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2537
gnupg (#660685), requested 129 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 122716
golang (#668870), requested 74 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 225
gpa (#663405), requested 110 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 512
grub2 (#248397), requested 2971 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 113083
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 946 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1160
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1493 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3724
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 108 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1037
isdnutils (#661110), requested 125 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8152
jove (#470185), requested 1572 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1108
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 981 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17116
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1223 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 19011
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1096 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 115445
libept (#678382), requested 7 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 18440
libnss-db (#624768), requested 424 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2588
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1900 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 46513
link-grammar (#556010), requested 958 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 12547
logcheck (#539944), requested 1059 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5120
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 2128 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Installations reported by Popcon: 307
maradns (#678460), requested 7 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 89
mdadm (#537993), requested 1072 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16172
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1485 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 466
monotone (#574609), requested 832 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 268
mtr (#527482), requested 1148 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 16631
munin (#655889), requested 166 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8679
nas (#354174), requested 2317 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 58488
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 124 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 102
nn (#470187), requested 1572 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 95
openbox (#566900), requested 885 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5631
openldap (#512360), requested 1255 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 116895
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2088 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 628
openssl (#332498), requested 2457 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 118440
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 7 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 42 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2189
php5 (#664595), requested 101 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 54061
ppp (#589632), requested 710 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 52667
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1206 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8118
pyro (#530280), requested 1132 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1130
quilt (#543541), requested 1038 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11930
rng-tools (#630920), requested 376 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 630
screen (#654116), requested 178 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40301
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1490 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 7487
serna-free (#640976), requested 293 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 47
spamassassin (#676314), requested 22 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13268
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1556 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
wine (#479659), requested 1514 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13878
xml-core (#660687), requested 129 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 99826
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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