Work-needing packages report for Aug 24, 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: 455 (new: 0)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 143 (new: 1)
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 455 packages are
orphaned. 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:
xmotd (#685225), offered 5 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
142 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:
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 934 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 54098
asymptote (#517342), requested 1273 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 2918
athcool (#278442), requested 2858 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 77
balsa (#642906), requested 333 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 243
bastille (#592137), requested 747 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 192
boinc (#511243), requested 1323 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1610
cardstories (#624100), requested 486 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 816 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 9960
debtags (#567954), requested 934 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2472
doc-central (#566364), requested 943 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 193
elvis (#432298), requested 1872 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 291
fbcat (#565156), requested 953 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 146
flightgear (#487388), requested 1524 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 737
freeipmi (#628062), requested 455 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1788
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1591 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1562
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1456 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 397
gnokii (#677750), requested 68 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2359
gnupg (#660685), requested 185 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 120886
golang (#668870), requested 130 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 275
gpa (#663405), requested 166 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 496
gradle (#683666), requested 21 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
grub2 (#248397), requested 3027 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 111836
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1002 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1150
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1549 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3333
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 164 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 995
isdnutils (#661110), requested 181 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 9999
jove (#470185), requested 1628 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1114
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1037 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 16406
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1279 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 17966
libburn (#679249), requested 57 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 46371
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1152 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 114137
libept (#678382), requested 63 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 22904
libisoburn (#679265), requested 57 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 737
libisofs (#679254), requested 57 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 46199
libnss-db (#624768), requested 480 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2392
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1956 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 45585
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1014 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 13603
logcheck (#539944), requested 1115 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5076
maradns (#678460), requested 63 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 88
mdadm (#537993), requested 1128 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16147
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1541 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 463
monotone (#574609), requested 888 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 259
mtr (#527482), requested 1204 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 15632
munin (#655889), requested 222 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8778
nas (#354174), requested 2373 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 57080
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 180 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 97
nn (#470187), requested 1628 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
openbox (#566900), requested 941 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5581
openldap (#512360), requested 1311 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 115390
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2144 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 658
openssl (#332498), requested 2513 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 116904
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 63 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 98 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2123
php5 (#664595), requested 157 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 53025
ppp (#589632), requested 766 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 51461
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1262 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 7974
pyro (#530280), requested 1188 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1085
quilt (#543541), requested 1094 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11610
rng-tools (#630920), requested 432 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 643
screen (#654116), requested 234 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40097
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1546 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6928
serna-free (#640976), requested 349 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
spamassassin (#676314), requested 78 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 12966
wine (#479659), requested 1570 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13361
xml-core (#660687), requested 185 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 99117
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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