Work-needing packages report for Sep 7, 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: 453 (new: 4)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 142 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 67 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
bzr-git (#686886), orphaned today
Description: Bazaar plugin providing Git integration
Installations reported by Popcon: 155
bzr-svn (#686887), orphaned today
Description: Bazaar plugin providing Subversion integration
Installations reported by Popcon: 234
uw-imap (#686448), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: c-client library for mail protocols - development files
Installations reported by Popcon: 13780
wikkid (#686885), orphaned today
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
449 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 142 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 948 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 55473
asymptote (#517342), requested 1287 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3099
athcool (#278442), requested 2872 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 76
balsa (#642906), requested 347 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 253
bastille (#592137), requested 761 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 198
boinc (#511243), requested 1337 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1650
cardstories (#624100), requested 500 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 830 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10282
debtags (#567954), requested 948 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2514
doc-central (#566364), requested 957 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 196
elvis (#432298), requested 1886 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 362
fbcat (#565156), requested 967 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 141
flightgear (#487388), requested 1538 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 798
freeipmi (#628062), requested 469 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1817
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1605 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1592
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1470 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 404
gnokii (#677750), requested 82 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2365
gnupg (#660685), requested 199 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 122703
golang (#668870), requested 144 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 284
gpa (#663405), requested 180 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 513
gradle (#683666), requested 35 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 31
grub2 (#248397), requested 3041 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 113687
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1016 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1195
horde4 (#686007), requested 10 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1563 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3354
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 178 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1006
isdnutils (#661110), requested 195 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 10498
jove (#470185), requested 1642 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1139
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1051 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 16887
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1293 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18112
libburn (#679249), requested 71 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 47634
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1166 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 116050
libept (#678382), requested 77 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 24142
libisoburn (#679265), requested 71 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 753
libisofs (#679254), requested 71 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 47456
libnss-db (#624768), requested 494 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2436
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1970 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 46973
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1028 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 14099
logcheck (#539944), requested 1129 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5083
maradns (#678460), requested 77 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
mdadm (#537993), requested 1142 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16290
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1555 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 461
monotone (#574609), requested 902 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 266
mtr (#527482), requested 1218 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 15725
munin (#655889), requested 236 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8820
nas (#354174), requested 2387 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 58391
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 194 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 102
nn (#470187), requested 1642 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
openbox (#566900), requested 955 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5813
openldap (#512360), requested 1325 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 117286
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2158 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 729
openssl (#332498), requested 2527 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 118787
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 77 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 17
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 112 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2168
php5 (#664595), requested 171 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 53582
ppp (#589632), requested 780 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 52856
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1276 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8020
pyro (#530280), requested 1202 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1131
quilt (#543541), requested 1108 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11784
rng-tools (#630920), requested 446 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 643
screen (#654116), requested 248 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40504
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1560 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6936
serna-free (#640976), requested 363 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
spamassassin (#676314), requested 92 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13055
wine (#479659), requested 1584 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13823
xml-core (#660687), requested 199 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 101125
zalign (#686000), requested 10 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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