Work-needing packages report for Jul 20, 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: 456 (new: 0)
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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No new packages have been orphaned, but a total of 456 packages are
orphaned. 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 899 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 55046
asymptote (#517342), requested 1238 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3158
athcool (#278442), requested 2823 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 85
balsa (#642906), requested 298 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 258
bastille (#592137), requested 712 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 222
boinc (#511243), requested 1288 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1667
cardstories (#624100), requested 451 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 781 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10228
debtags (#567954), requested 899 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2484
doc-central (#566364), requested 908 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 199
elvis (#432298), requested 1837 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 293
fbcat (#565156), requested 918 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 153
flightgear (#487388), requested 1489 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 826
freeipmi (#628062), requested 420 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1725
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1556 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1652
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1421 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 428
gnokii (#677750), requested 33 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2478
gnupg (#660685), requested 150 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 122235
golang (#668870), requested 95 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 239
gpa (#663405), requested 131 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 513
grub2 (#248397), requested 2992 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 112800
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 967 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1152
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1514 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3620
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 129 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1028
isdnutils (#661110), requested 146 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8002
jove (#470185), requested 1593 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1101
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1002 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 16923
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1244 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18917
libburn (#679249), requested 22 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 46940
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1117 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 115166
libept (#678382), requested 28 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 20556
libisoburn (#679265), requested 22 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 743
libisofs (#679254), requested 22 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 46769
libnss-db (#624768), requested 445 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2558
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1921 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 46350
link-grammar (#556010), requested 979 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 12215
logcheck (#539944), requested 1080 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5107
maradns (#678460), requested 28 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
mdadm (#537993), requested 1093 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16237
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1506 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 465
monotone (#574609), requested 853 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 268
mtr (#527482), requested 1169 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 16303
munin (#655889), requested 187 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8777
nas (#354174), requested 2338 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 58161
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 145 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
nn (#470187), requested 1593 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 98
openbox (#566900), requested 906 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5533
openldap (#512360), requested 1276 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 116434
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2109 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 655
openssl (#332498), requested 2478 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 118094
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 28 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 14
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 63 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2163
php5 (#664595), requested 122 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 54007
ppp (#589632), requested 731 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 52372
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1227 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8078
pyro (#530280), requested 1153 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1120
quilt (#543541), requested 1059 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11898
rng-tools (#630920), requested 397 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 638
screen (#654116), requested 199 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40273
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1511 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 7332
serna-free (#640976), requested 314 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 49
spamassassin (#676314), requested 43 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13214
wine (#479659), requested 1535 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13785
xml-core (#660687), requested 150 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 99767
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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