Work-needing packages report for Nov 9, 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: 486 (new: 0)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 138 (new: 3)
Total number of packages requested help for: 62 (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 486 packages are
orphaned. 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:
aiccu (#692465), offered 2 days ago
Description: SixXS Automatic IPv6 Connectivity Client Utility
Installations reported by Popcon: 413
c-cpp-reference (#692105), offered 6 days ago
Description: C and C++ programming reference
Installations reported by Popcon: 565
shinken (#692578), offered yesterday
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
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 1011 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 59424
asymptote (#517342), requested 1350 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3335
athcool (#278442), requested 2935 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 74
balsa (#642906), requested 410 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 264
bastille (#592137), requested 824 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 201
cardstories (#624100), requested 563 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 893 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10820
debtags (#567954), requested 1011 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2486
doc-central (#566364), requested 1020 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 207
fbcat (#565156), requested 1030 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 143
flightgear (#487388), requested 1601 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 840
freeipmi (#628062), requested 532 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1989
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1668 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1637
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1533 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 425
gnokii (#677750), requested 145 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2337
gnupg (#660685), requested 262 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 128751
golang (#668870), requested 207 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 369
gpa (#663405), requested 243 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 513
gradle (#683666), requested 98 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
grub2 (#248397), requested 3104 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 119899
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1079 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1255
horde4 (#686007), requested 73 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1626 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3220
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 241 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 986
isdnutils (#661110), requested 258 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8293
jove (#470185), requested 1705 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1239
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1114 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17729
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1356 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18406
libburn (#679249), requested 134 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 51551
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1229 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 122287
libept (#678382), requested 140 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 29179
libisoburn (#679265), requested 134 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 861
libisofs (#679254), requested 134 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 51367
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2033 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 51155
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1091 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 13319
logcheck (#539944), requested 1192 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5133
maradns (#678460), requested 140 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1618 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 563
monotone (#574609), requested 965 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 261
munin (#655889), requested 299 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 9064
nas (#354174), requested 2450 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 62138
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 257 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
nn (#470187), requested 1705 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
openbox (#566900), requested 1018 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 6374
openldap (#512360), requested 1388 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 123508
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2221 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 785
openssl (#332498), requested 2590 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 125006
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 140 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 19
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 175 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2241
php5 (#664595), requested 234 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 55434
ppp (#589632), requested 843 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 57272
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1339 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8189
pyro (#530280), requested 1265 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1250
quilt (#543541), requested 1171 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11877
rng-tools (#630920), requested 509 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 674
screen (#654116), requested 311 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 41601
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1623 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6770
serna-free (#640976), requested 426 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
spamassassin (#676314), requested 155 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13417
wine (#479659), requested 1647 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 14504
xml-core (#660687), requested 262 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 107658
zalign (#686000), requested 73 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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