Work-needing packages report for Jul 13, 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: 461 (new: 7)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 146 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 64 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
ginspector (#681284), orphaned today
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
ladr (#681042), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: the LADR deduction library, development files
Installations reported by Popcon: 59
libcorona-perl (#680774), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Coro based PSGI web server server using Coro
Installations reported by Popcon: 1
otter (#681043), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: resolution-style theorem prover
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
prover9-manual (#681044), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: documentation for Prover9 and associated programs
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
python-unac (#680459), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Library to remove accents from string or character
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
tcpser (#681045), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: emulate a Hayes compatible modem
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
454 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 146 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:
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 892 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 55290
asymptote (#517342), requested 1231 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3194
athcool (#278442), requested 2816 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 84
balsa (#642906), requested 291 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 258
bastille (#592137), requested 705 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 217
boinc (#511243), requested 1281 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1672
cardstories (#624100), requested 444 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 774 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10295
debtags (#567954), requested 892 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2496
doc-central (#566364), requested 901 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 201
elvis (#432298), requested 1830 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 299
fbcat (#565156), requested 911 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 151
flightgear (#487388), requested 1482 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 829
freeipmi (#628062), requested 413 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1702
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1549 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1646
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1414 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 421
gnokii (#677750), requested 26 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2495
gnupg (#660685), requested 143 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 122504
golang (#668870), requested 88 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 243
gpa (#663405), requested 124 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 507
grub2 (#248397), requested 2985 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 112989
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 960 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1152
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1507 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3656
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 122 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1036
isdnutils (#661110), requested 139 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 7993
jove (#470185), requested 1586 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1109
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 995 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17051
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1237 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18978
libburn (#679249), requested 15 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 47230
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1110 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 115367
libept (#678382), requested 21 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 19949
libisoburn (#679265), requested 15 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 739
libisofs (#679254), requested 15 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 47044
libnss-db (#624768), requested 438 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2586
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1914 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 46662
link-grammar (#556010), requested 972 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 12348
logcheck (#539944), requested 1073 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5113
maradns (#678460), requested 21 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
mdadm (#537993), requested 1086 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16173
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1499 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 463
monotone (#574609), requested 846 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 266
mtr (#527482), requested 1162 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 16406
munin (#655889), requested 180 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8741
nas (#354174), requested 2331 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 58387
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 138 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 100
nn (#470187), requested 1586 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 95
openbox (#566900), requested 899 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5559
openldap (#512360), requested 1269 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 116662
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2102 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 644
openssl (#332498), requested 2471 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 118336
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 21 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 56 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2165
php5 (#664595), requested 115 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 54011
ppp (#589632), requested 724 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 52675
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1220 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8071
pyro (#530280), requested 1146 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1129
quilt (#543541), requested 1052 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11904
rng-tools (#630920), requested 390 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 629
screen (#654116), requested 192 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40255
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1504 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 7365
serna-free (#640976), requested 307 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 47
spamassassin (#676314), requested 36 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13269
wine (#479659), requested 1528 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13812
xml-core (#660687), requested 143 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 99937
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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