Work-needing packages report for Dec 14, 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: 533 (new: 0)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 138 (new: 0)
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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No new packages have been orphaned, but a total of 533 packages are
orphaned. See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
for a complete list.
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No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 138 packages
are awaiting adoption. 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 1046 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 60292
asymptote (#517342), requested 1385 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 4031
athcool (#278442), requested 2970 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 73
balsa (#642906), requested 445 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 795
bastille (#592137), requested 859 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 196
cardstories (#624100), requested 598 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 928 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 11241
cloud-init (#693094), requested 31 days ago
Description: configuration and customization of cloud instances
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
debtags (#567954), requested 1046 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2485
doc-central (#566364), requested 1055 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 206
fbcat (#565156), requested 1065 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 149
flightgear (#487388), requested 1636 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 825
freeipmi (#628062), requested 567 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 2063
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1703 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2126
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1568 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 429
gnokii (#677750), requested 180 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2279
gnupg (#660685), requested 297 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 130810
golang (#668870), requested 242 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 402
gpa (#663405), requested 278 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 510
gradle (#683666), requested 133 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 26
grub2 (#248397), requested 3139 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 122087
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1114 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1282
horde4 (#686007), requested 108 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1661 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3099
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 276 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1157
isdnutils (#661110), requested 293 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 7864
jove (#470185), requested 1740 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1410
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1149 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 19346
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1391 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18375
libburn (#679249), requested 169 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 52963
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1264 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 124564
libept (#678382), requested 175 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 30929
libisoburn (#679265), requested 169 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 887
libisofs (#679254), requested 169 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 52771
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2068 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 52538
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1126 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 13261
logcheck (#539944), requested 1227 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5112
maradns (#678460), requested 175 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1653 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 592
monotone (#574609), requested 1000 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 274
munin (#655889), requested 334 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 9125
nas (#354174), requested 2485 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 63539
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 292 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
nn (#470187), requested 1740 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 84
openbox (#566900), requested 1053 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 6583
openldap (#512360), requested 1423 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 125696
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2256 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 789
openssl (#332498), requested 2625 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 127192
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 175 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 210 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2288
php5 (#664595), requested 269 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 56505
ppp (#589632), requested 878 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 58802
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1374 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8252
pyro (#530280), requested 1300 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1463
quilt (#543541), requested 1206 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11855
rng-tools (#630920), requested 544 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 691
screen (#654116), requested 346 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 42908
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1658 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6558
serna-free (#640976), requested 461 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 58
spamassassin (#676314), requested 190 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 14034
wine (#479659), requested 1682 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 15539
worldwind (#693296), requested 28 days ago (non-free)
Installations reported by Popcon: 243
xml-core (#660687), requested 297 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 110178
zalign (#686000), requested 108 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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