Work-needing packages report for Sep 21, 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: 454 (new: 0)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 139 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 66 (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 454 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 139 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 962 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 56964
asymptote (#517342), requested 1301 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3258
athcool (#278442), requested 2886 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 74
balsa (#642906), requested 361 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 255
bastille (#592137), requested 775 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 196
boinc (#511243), requested 1351 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1671
cardstories (#624100), requested 514 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 844 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10519
debtags (#567954), requested 962 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2502
doc-central (#566364), requested 971 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 199
elvis (#432298), requested 1900 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 376
fbcat (#565156), requested 981 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 143
flightgear (#487388), requested 1552 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 829
freeipmi (#628062), requested 483 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1865
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1619 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1639
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1484 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 424
gnokii (#677750), requested 96 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2400
gnupg (#660685), requested 213 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 124519
golang (#668870), requested 158 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 312
gpa (#663405), requested 194 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 512
gradle (#683666), requested 49 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 29
grub2 (#248397), requested 3055 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 115507
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1030 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1218
horde4 (#686007), requested 24 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1577 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3352
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 192 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 996
isdnutils (#661110), requested 209 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 11036
jove (#470185), requested 1656 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1194
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1065 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17305
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1307 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18287
libburn (#679249), requested 85 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 48927
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1180 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 117856
libept (#678382), requested 91 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 25275
libisoburn (#679265), requested 85 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 810
libisofs (#679254), requested 85 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 48748
libnss-db (#624768), requested 508 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2486
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1984 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 48258
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1042 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 14675
logcheck (#539944), requested 1143 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5082
maradns (#678460), requested 91 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1569 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 473
monotone (#574609), requested 916 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 269
mtr (#527482), requested 1232 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 15746
munin (#655889), requested 250 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8800
nas (#354174), requested 2401 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 59608
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 208 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 95
nn (#470187), requested 1656 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
openbox (#566900), requested 969 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 6017
openldap (#512360), requested 1339 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 119105
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2172 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 745
openssl (#332498), requested 2541 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 120616
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 91 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 17
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 126 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2185
php5 (#664595), requested 185 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 54144
ppp (#589632), requested 794 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 54469
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1290 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8053
pyro (#530280), requested 1216 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1203
quilt (#543541), requested 1122 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11817
rng-tools (#630920), requested 460 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 655
screen (#654116), requested 262 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40782
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1574 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6908
serna-free (#640976), requested 377 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
spamassassin (#676314), requested 106 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13176
wine (#479659), requested 1598 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 14059
xml-core (#660687), requested 213 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 102992
zalign (#686000), requested 24 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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