Work-needing packages report for Oct 26, 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: 474 (new: 3)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 136 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requested help for: 64 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
coherence (#691229), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Python UPnP framework
Installations reported by Popcon: 29520
gnome-alsamixer (#691265), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: ALSA sound mixer for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 3095
openclipart2 (#691126), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Open Clip Art Library
Installations reported by Popcon: 258
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:
ksh (#691199), offered 3 days ago
Description: Real, AT&T version of the Korn shell
Installations reported by Popcon: 2641
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 997 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 58772
asymptote (#517342), requested 1336 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3280
athcool (#278442), requested 2921 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 76
balsa (#642906), requested 396 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 266
bastille (#592137), requested 810 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 198
cardstories (#624100), requested 549 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 879 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10758
debtags (#567954), requested 997 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2507
doc-central (#566364), requested 1006 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 193
elvis (#432298), requested 1935 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 385
fbcat (#565156), requested 1016 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 152
flightgear (#487388), requested 1587 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 825
freeipmi (#628062), requested 518 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1937
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1654 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1628
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1519 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 423
gnokii (#677750), requested 131 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2366
gnupg (#660685), requested 248 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 127238
golang (#668870), requested 193 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 350
gpa (#663405), requested 229 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 510
gradle (#683666), requested 84 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 26
grub2 (#248397), requested 3090 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 118360
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1065 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1247
horde4 (#686007), requested 59 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1612 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3233
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 227 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 979
isdnutils (#661110), requested 244 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8723
jove (#470185), requested 1691 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1207
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1100 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17469
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1342 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18402
libburn (#679249), requested 120 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 50840
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1215 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 120761
libept (#678382), requested 126 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 28026
libisoburn (#679265), requested 120 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 863
libisofs (#679254), requested 120 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 50666
libnss-db (#624768), requested 543 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2450
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2019 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 50489
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1077 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 14085
logcheck (#539944), requested 1178 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5027
maradns (#678460), requested 126 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1604 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 535
monotone (#574609), requested 951 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 269
munin (#655889), requested 285 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8966
nas (#354174), requested 2436 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 61333
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 243 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 97
nn (#470187), requested 1691 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
openbox (#566900), requested 1004 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 6190
openldap (#512360), requested 1374 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 121986
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2207 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 757
openssl (#332498), requested 2576 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 123482
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 126 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 19
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 161 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2216
php5 (#664595), requested 220 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 54942
ppp (#589632), requested 829 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 56571
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1325 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8192
pyro (#530280), requested 1251 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1205
quilt (#543541), requested 1157 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11808
rng-tools (#630920), requested 495 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 660
screen (#654116), requested 297 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 41257
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1609 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6780
serna-free (#640976), requested 412 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
spamassassin (#676314), requested 141 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13355
wine (#479659), requested 1633 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 14351
xml-core (#660687), requested 248 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 106068
zalign (#686000), requested 59 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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