Work-needing packages report for Oct 12, 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: 471 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 136 (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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The following packages have been orphaned:
lockout (#690140), orphaned yesterday
Description: A self-imposed discipline and productivity enforcer
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
sysfsutils (#689879), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: interface library to sysfs
Installations reported by Popcon: 71800
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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The following packages have been given up for adoption:
pmount (#689854), offered 4 days ago
Description: mount removable devices as normal user
Installations reported by Popcon: 9289
135 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 983 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 58266
asymptote (#517342), requested 1322 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3315
athcool (#278442), requested 2907 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 73
balsa (#642906), requested 382 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 266
bastille (#592137), requested 796 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 202
boinc (#511243), requested 1372 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1682
cardstories (#624100), requested 535 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 865 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10677
debtags (#567954), requested 983 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2497
doc-central (#566364), requested 992 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 202
elvis (#432298), requested 1921 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 381
fbcat (#565156), requested 1002 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 142
flightgear (#487388), requested 1573 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 820
freeipmi (#628062), requested 504 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1905
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1640 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1630
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1505 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 421
gnokii (#677750), requested 117 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2389
gnupg (#660685), requested 234 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 126577
golang (#668870), requested 179 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 324
gpa (#663405), requested 215 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 508
gradle (#683666), requested 70 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
grub2 (#248397), requested 3076 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 117602
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1051 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1230
horde4 (#686007), requested 45 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1598 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3322
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 213 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1002
isdnutils (#661110), requested 230 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 9859
jove (#470185), requested 1677 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1230
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1086 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17587
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1328 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18384
libburn (#679249), requested 106 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 50253
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1201 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 120001
libept (#678382), requested 112 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 26856
libisoburn (#679265), requested 106 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 831
libisofs (#679254), requested 106 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 50069
libnss-db (#624768), requested 529 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2528
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2005 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 49657
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1063 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 15398
logcheck (#539944), requested 1164 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5058
maradns (#678460), requested 112 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1590 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 506
monotone (#574609), requested 937 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 271
munin (#655889), requested 271 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8960
nas (#354174), requested 2422 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 60942
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 229 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
nn (#470187), requested 1677 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
openbox (#566900), requested 990 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 6123
openldap (#512360), requested 1360 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 121258
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2193 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 757
openssl (#332498), requested 2562 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 122740
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 112 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 19
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 147 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2203
php5 (#664595), requested 206 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 54809
ppp (#589632), requested 815 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 55936
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1311 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8146
pyro (#530280), requested 1237 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1305
quilt (#543541), requested 1143 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11849
rng-tools (#630920), requested 481 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 663
screen (#654116), requested 283 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 41298
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1595 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6903
serna-free (#640976), requested 398 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
spamassassin (#676314), requested 127 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13292
wine (#479659), requested 1619 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 14379
xml-core (#660687), requested 234 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 105160
zalign (#686000), requested 45 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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