Work-needing packages report for Nov 16, 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: 489 (new: 5)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 139 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 64 (new: 2)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
arpwatch (#693374), orphaned today
Description: Ethernet/FDDI station activity monitor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1092
crashmail (#693229), orphaned yesterday
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
dconf (#693308), orphaned today
Description: collect system information
Installations reported by Popcon: 156
postnews (#693232), orphaned yesterday
Description: Post Usenet articles via NNTP from the command line
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
uqwk (#693231), orphaned yesterday
Description: Offline mail and news package creator (NNTP version)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
484 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:
multimail (#693230), offered yesterday
Description: Offline reader for Blue Wave, QWK, OMEN and SOUP
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
ulatencyd (#692907), offered 5 days ago
Description: Daemon to minimize latency on a linux system using
cgroups
Installations reported by Popcon: 65
137 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:
[NEW] cloud-init (#693094), requested 3 days ago
Description: configuration and customization of cloud instances
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
[NEW] worldwind (#693296), requested today (non-free)
Installations reported by Popcon: 264
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 1018 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 59340
asymptote (#517342), requested 1357 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3348
athcool (#278442), requested 2942 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 70
balsa (#642906), requested 417 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 265
bastille (#592137), requested 831 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 192
cardstories (#624100), requested 570 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 900 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10905
debtags (#567954), requested 1018 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2466
doc-central (#566364), requested 1027 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 209
fbcat (#565156), requested 1037 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 152
flightgear (#487388), requested 1608 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 840
freeipmi (#628062), requested 539 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 2007
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1675 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1630
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1540 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 433
gnokii (#677750), requested 152 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2321
gnupg (#660685), requested 269 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 128792
golang (#668870), requested 214 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 374
gpa (#663405), requested 250 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 510
gradle (#683666), requested 105 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
grub2 (#248397), requested 3111 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 119956
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1086 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1267
horde4 (#686007), requested 80 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1633 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3216
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 248 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 992
isdnutils (#661110), requested 265 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8189
jove (#470185), requested 1712 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1237
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1121 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17897
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1363 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18364
libburn (#679249), requested 141 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 51510
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1236 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 122381
libept (#678382), requested 147 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 29300
libisoburn (#679265), requested 141 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 867
libisofs (#679254), requested 141 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 51320
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2040 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 51035
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1098 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 13204
logcheck (#539944), requested 1199 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5144
maradns (#678460), requested 147 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1625 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 568
monotone (#574609), requested 972 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 261
munin (#655889), requested 306 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 9113
nas (#354174), requested 2457 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 62106
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 264 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
nn (#470187), requested 1712 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 88
openbox (#566900), requested 1025 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 6467
openldap (#512360), requested 1395 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 123564
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2228 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 787
openssl (#332498), requested 2597 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 125083
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 147 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 182 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2244
php5 (#664595), requested 241 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 55519
ppp (#589632), requested 850 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 57157
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1346 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8226
pyro (#530280), requested 1272 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1253
quilt (#543541), requested 1178 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11866
rng-tools (#630920), requested 516 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 664
screen (#654116), requested 318 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 41696
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1630 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6754
serna-free (#640976), requested 433 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
spamassassin (#676314), requested 162 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13411
wine (#479659), requested 1654 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 14548
xml-core (#660687), requested 269 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 107751
zalign (#686000), requested 80 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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