Work-needing packages report for Oct 19, 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: 472 (new: 1)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 137 (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:
openclipart (#690518), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Open Clip Art Library
Installations reported by Popcon: 2356
471 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:
hiredis (#690707), offered 2 days ago
Description: minimalistic C client library for Redis
Installations reported by Popcon: 34
136 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 990 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 58372
asymptote (#517342), requested 1329 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3278
athcool (#278442), requested 2914 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 74
balsa (#642906), requested 389 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 266
bastille (#592137), requested 803 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 197
boinc (#511243), requested 1379 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1694
cardstories (#624100), requested 542 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 872 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10739
debtags (#567954), requested 990 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2484
doc-central (#566364), requested 999 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 196
elvis (#432298), requested 1928 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 383
fbcat (#565156), requested 1009 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 147
flightgear (#487388), requested 1580 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 815
freeipmi (#628062), requested 511 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1917
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1647 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1630
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1512 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 425
gnokii (#677750), requested 124 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2368
gnupg (#660685), requested 241 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 126736
golang (#668870), requested 186 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 330
gpa (#663405), requested 222 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 503
gradle (#683666), requested 77 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 22
grub2 (#248397), requested 3083 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 117783
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1058 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1255
horde4 (#686007), requested 52 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1605 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3300
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 220 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 984
isdnutils (#661110), requested 237 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 9133
jove (#470185), requested 1684 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1221
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1093 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17526
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1335 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18356
libburn (#679249), requested 113 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 50521
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1208 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 120181
libept (#678382), requested 119 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 27359
libisoburn (#679265), requested 113 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 852
libisofs (#679254), requested 113 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 50346
libnss-db (#624768), requested 536 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2491
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2012 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 50039
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1070 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 14784
logcheck (#539944), requested 1171 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5035
maradns (#678460), requested 119 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1597 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 506
monotone (#574609), requested 944 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 272
munin (#655889), requested 278 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8953
nas (#354174), requested 2429 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 61090
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 236 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 95
nn (#470187), requested 1684 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 88
openbox (#566900), requested 997 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 6179
openldap (#512360), requested 1367 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 121429
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2200 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 750
openssl (#332498), requested 2569 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 122923
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 119 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 154 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2199
php5 (#664595), requested 213 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 54735
ppp (#589632), requested 822 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 56172
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1318 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8172
pyro (#530280), requested 1244 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1280
quilt (#543541), requested 1150 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11799
rng-tools (#630920), requested 488 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 660
screen (#654116), requested 290 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 41308
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1602 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6834
serna-free (#640976), requested 405 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 49
spamassassin (#676314), requested 134 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13323
wine (#479659), requested 1626 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 14349
xml-core (#660687), requested 241 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 105473
zalign (#686000), requested 52 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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