Work-needing packages report for Apr 20, 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: 413 (new: 7)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 165 (new: 6)
Total number of packages requested help for: 61 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
dvbsnoop (#668909), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: DVB / MPEG stream analyzer
Installations reported by Popcon: 468
gaphas (#668910), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: diagramming widget
Installations reported by Popcon: 248
gaphor (#668911), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: UML modeling tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 214
gl-117 (#668914), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: An action flight simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 522
ppmd (#669390), orphaned today
Description: fast archiver program with good compression ratio
Installations reported by Popcon: 107
simplegeneric (#668915), orphaned 4 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 2106
stellarium (#668916), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: real-time photo-realistic sky generator
Installations reported by Popcon: 2713
406 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:
bzr-fastimport (#668992), offered 3 days ago
Description: Fast-import/fast-export plugin for Bazaar
Installations reported by Popcon: 172
bzr-gtk (#668996), offered 3 days ago
Description: provides graphical interfaces to Bazaar (bzr) version
control
Installations reported by Popcon: 517
bzr-rewrite (#669009), offered 3 days ago
Description: History rewriting plugin for Bazaar
Installations reported by Popcon: 144
bzr-stats (#668919), offered 4 days ago
Description: statistics plugin for Bazaar
Installations reported by Popcon: 79
bzrtools (#668599), offered 6 days ago
Description: Collection of tools for bzr
Installations reported by Popcon: 4020
loggerhead (#668933), offered 4 days ago
Description: Web viewer for Bazaar
Installations reported by Popcon: 21
159 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] golang (#668870), requested 4 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 171
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 808 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 53590
asymptote (#517342), requested 1147 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3130
athcool (#278442), requested 2732 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 84
balsa (#642906), requested 207 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 255
bastille (#592137), requested 621 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 235
boinc (#511243), requested 1197 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1802
cardstories (#624100), requested 360 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 690 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10238
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 547 days ago
Description: configures encrypted block devices
Installations reported by Popcon: 7636
debtags (#567954), requested 808 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2508
doc-central (#566364), requested 817 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 205
elvis (#432298), requested 1746 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 383
fbcat (#565156), requested 827 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 147
flightgear (#487388), requested 1398 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 825
freeipmi (#628062), requested 329 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1278
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1465 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1646
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1330 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 409
gnupg (#660685), requested 59 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 122631
grub2 (#248397), requested 2901 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 112352
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 876 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1114
hibernate (#558739), requested 871 days ago
Description: smartly puts your computer to sleep (suspend to RAM or
disk)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6415
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1423 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 4035
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 38 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1023
isdnutils (#661110), requested 55 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 5123
jove (#470185), requested 1502 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1138
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 911 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17138
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1153 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 19119
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1026 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 114569
libnss-db (#624768), requested 354 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2656
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1830 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 45324
line6-usb (#652848), requested 121 days ago
Description: Line 6 POD driver source
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
link-grammar (#556010), requested 888 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 14437
logcheck (#539944), requested 989 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5126
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 2058 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Installations reported by Popcon: 300
mdadm (#537993), requested 1002 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16342
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1415 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 439
monotone (#574609), requested 762 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 282
mtr (#527482), requested 1078 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 17344
munin (#655889), requested 96 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8909
nas (#354174), requested 2247 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 56468
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 54 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
nn (#470187), requested 1502 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 98
openbox (#566900), requested 815 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5519
openldap (#512360), requested 1185 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 116232
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2018 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 604
openssl (#332498), requested 2387 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 118030
php5 (#664595), requested 31 days ago
Description: <missing description>
Installations reported by Popcon: 54205
ppp (#589632), requested 640 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 51352
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1136 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8222
pyro (#530280), requested 1062 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1046
qemu-kvm (#479951), requested 1443 days ago
Description: Full virtualization on x86 hardware
Installations reported by Popcon: 5592
quilt (#543541), requested 968 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 12079
rng-tools (#630920), requested 306 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 632
scim (#661106), requested 55 days ago
Description: smart common input method platform
Installations reported by Popcon: 10739
screen (#654116), requested 108 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40660
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1420 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 8026
serna-free (#640976), requested 223 days ago
Description: <missing description>
Installations reported by Popcon: 56
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1486 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 81
wine (#479659), requested 1444 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13435
xml-core (#660687), requested 59 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 97873
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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