Work-needing packages report for Aug 10, 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: 457 (new: 0)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 144 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 65 (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 457 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 144 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 920 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 54174
asymptote (#517342), requested 1259 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3005
athcool (#278442), requested 2844 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 78
balsa (#642906), requested 319 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 249
bastille (#592137), requested 733 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 208
boinc (#511243), requested 1309 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1598
cardstories (#624100), requested 472 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 802 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10050
debtags (#567954), requested 920 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2494
doc-central (#566364), requested 929 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 201
elvis (#432298), requested 1858 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 297
fbcat (#565156), requested 939 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 143
flightgear (#487388), requested 1510 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 761
freeipmi (#628062), requested 441 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1749
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1577 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1600
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1442 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 407
gnokii (#677750), requested 54 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2387
gnupg (#660685), requested 171 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 121151
golang (#668870), requested 116 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 246
gpa (#663405), requested 152 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 501
gradle (#683666), requested 7 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 31
grub2 (#248397), requested 3013 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 111938
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 988 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1129
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1535 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3458
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 150 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 995
isdnutils (#661110), requested 167 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 9519
jove (#470185), requested 1614 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1097
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1023 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 16528
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1265 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18252
libburn (#679249), requested 43 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 46110
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1138 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 114257
libept (#678382), requested 49 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 21730
libisoburn (#679265), requested 43 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 737
libisofs (#679254), requested 43 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 45955
libnss-db (#624768), requested 466 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2474
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1942 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 45477
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1000 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 13262
logcheck (#539944), requested 1101 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5072
maradns (#678460), requested 49 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
mdadm (#537993), requested 1114 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16176
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1527 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 475
monotone (#574609), requested 874 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 274
mtr (#527482), requested 1190 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 15941
munin (#655889), requested 208 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8767
nas (#354174), requested 2359 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 57068
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 166 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 98
nn (#470187), requested 1614 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
openbox (#566900), requested 927 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5503
openldap (#512360), requested 1297 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 115529
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2130 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 659
openssl (#332498), requested 2499 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 117130
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 49 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 84 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2146
php5 (#664595), requested 143 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 53407
ppp (#589632), requested 752 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 51486
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1248 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8033
pyro (#530280), requested 1174 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1083
quilt (#543541), requested 1080 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11708
rng-tools (#630920), requested 418 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 638
screen (#654116), requested 220 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40175
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1532 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 7097
serna-free (#640976), requested 335 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
spamassassin (#676314), requested 64 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13019
wine (#479659), requested 1556 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13512
xml-core (#660687), requested 171 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 98954
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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