Work-needing packages report for Dec 7, 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: 502 (new: 6)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 139 (new: 2)
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:
blktool (#695127), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: tune low-level block device parameters
Installations reported by Popcon: 355
mpt-status (#695126), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: get RAID status out of mpt (and other) HW RAID
controllers
Installations reported by Popcon: 7346
oidentd (#695125), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: replacement ident daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 648
openmotif (#695130), orphaned 2 days ago (non-free)
Description: Open Motif
Installations reported by Popcon: 1634
scli (#695128), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: a collection of SNMP command line management tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 368
snooper (#695129), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Captures communication between two external serial
devices
Installations reported by Popcon: 82
496 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:
libcgroup (#695231), offered yesterday
Description: Library to control and monitor control groups
Installations reported by Popcon: 753
sandboxgamemaker (#694990), offered 3 days ago
Description: 3D game maker and 3D game design program
Installations reported by Popcon: 59
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:
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 1039 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 60056
asymptote (#517342), requested 1378 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 4004
athcool (#278442), requested 2963 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 75
balsa (#642906), requested 438 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 795
bastille (#592137), requested 852 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 200
cardstories (#624100), requested 591 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 921 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 11141
cloud-init (#693094), requested 24 days ago
Description: configuration and customization of cloud instances
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
debtags (#567954), requested 1039 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2514
doc-central (#566364), requested 1048 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 205
fbcat (#565156), requested 1058 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 150
flightgear (#487388), requested 1629 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 842
freeipmi (#628062), requested 560 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 2067
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1696 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2138
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1561 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 428
gnokii (#677750), requested 173 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2303
gnupg (#660685), requested 290 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 130421
golang (#668870), requested 235 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 394
gpa (#663405), requested 271 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 510
gradle (#683666), requested 126 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 24
grub2 (#248397), requested 3132 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 121638
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1107 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1290
horde4 (#686007), requested 101 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1654 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3155
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 269 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1132
isdnutils (#661110), requested 286 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 7892
jove (#470185), requested 1733 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1390
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1142 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 18904
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1384 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18423
libburn (#679249), requested 162 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 52678
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1257 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 124143
libept (#678382), requested 168 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 30327
libisoburn (#679265), requested 162 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 887
libisofs (#679254), requested 162 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 52487
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2061 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 52165
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1119 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 13409
logcheck (#539944), requested 1220 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5126
maradns (#678460), requested 168 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 89
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1646 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 583
monotone (#574609), requested 993 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 280
munin (#655889), requested 327 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 9120
nas (#354174), requested 2478 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 63290
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 285 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 97
nn (#470187), requested 1733 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
openbox (#566900), requested 1046 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 6541
openldap (#512360), requested 1416 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 125276
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2249 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 790
openssl (#332498), requested 2618 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 126768
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 168 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 203 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2276
php5 (#664595), requested 262 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 56427
ppp (#589632), requested 871 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 58438
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1367 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8290
pyro (#530280), requested 1293 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1439
quilt (#543541), requested 1199 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11887
rng-tools (#630920), requested 537 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 685
screen (#654116), requested 339 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 42795
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1651 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6621
serna-free (#640976), requested 454 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 58
spamassassin (#676314), requested 183 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 14006
wine (#479659), requested 1675 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 15443
worldwind (#693296), requested 21 days ago (non-free)
Installations reported by Popcon: 253
xml-core (#660687), requested 290 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 109639
zalign (#686000), requested 101 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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