Work-needing packages report for Oct 5, 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: 470 (new: 1)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 136 (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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The following packages have been orphaned:
pdnsd (#689563), orphaned today
Description: Proxy DNS Server
Installations reported by Popcon: 342
469 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 136 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 976 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 58114
asymptote (#517342), requested 1315 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3304
athcool (#278442), requested 2900 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 76
balsa (#642906), requested 375 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 260
bastille (#592137), requested 789 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 199
boinc (#511243), requested 1365 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1679
cardstories (#624100), requested 528 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 858 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10664
debtags (#567954), requested 976 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2520
doc-central (#566364), requested 985 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 208
elvis (#432298), requested 1914 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 384
fbcat (#565156), requested 995 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 151
flightgear (#487388), requested 1566 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 824
freeipmi (#628062), requested 497 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1901
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1633 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1633
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1498 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 431
gnokii (#677750), requested 110 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2387
gnupg (#660685), requested 227 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 126197
golang (#668870), requested 172 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 324
gpa (#663405), requested 208 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 506
gradle (#683666), requested 63 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
grub2 (#248397), requested 3069 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 117162
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1044 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1228
horde4 (#686007), requested 38 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1591 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3342
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 206 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1009
isdnutils (#661110), requested 223 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 10642
jove (#470185), requested 1670 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1231
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1079 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17503
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1321 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18358
libburn (#679249), requested 99 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 49993
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1194 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 119580
libept (#678382), requested 105 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 26531
libisoburn (#679265), requested 99 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 832
libisofs (#679254), requested 99 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 49806
libnss-db (#624768), requested 522 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2536
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1998 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 49401
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1056 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 15267
logcheck (#539944), requested 1157 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5062
maradns (#678460), requested 105 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1583 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 496
monotone (#574609), requested 930 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 271
mtr (#527482), requested 1246 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 15720
munin (#655889), requested 264 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8902
nas (#354174), requested 2415 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 60649
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 222 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
nn (#470187), requested 1670 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
openbox (#566900), requested 983 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 6075
openldap (#512360), requested 1353 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 120844
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2186 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 762
openssl (#332498), requested 2555 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 122343
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 105 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 19
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 140 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2202
php5 (#664595), requested 199 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 54700
ppp (#589632), requested 808 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 55699
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1304 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8153
pyro (#530280), requested 1230 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1287
quilt (#543541), requested 1136 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11852
rng-tools (#630920), requested 474 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 666
screen (#654116), requested 276 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 41190
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1588 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6895
serna-free (#640976), requested 391 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
spamassassin (#676314), requested 120 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13295
wine (#479659), requested 1612 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 14270
xml-core (#660687), requested 227 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 104711
zalign (#686000), requested 38 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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