Work-needing packages report for Jun 1, 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: 454 (new: 22)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 156 (new: 7)
Total number of packages requested help for: 59 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
analog (#674866), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: web server log analyzer
Installations reported by Popcon: 18472
autogen (#674867), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: automated text file generator
Installations reported by Popcon: 33777
delta (#674869), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Heuristic minimizer of interesting files
Installations reported by Popcon: 41
devil (#674868), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Cross-platform image loading and manipulation toolkit
Installations reported by Popcon: 1629
freeglut (#674870), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: OpenGL Utility Toolkit
Installations reported by Popcon: 41006
galib (#674871), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: C++ Library of Genetic Algorithm Components
Installations reported by Popcon: 269
glui (#674872), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: GLUI, a C++ GLUT based GUI library - Runtime support
Installations reported by Popcon: 220
gnurobots (#674873), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Program a robot to explore a world
Installations reported by Popcon: 138
gtkglextmm (#674875), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: C++ bindings for GtkGLExt (Shared libraries)
Installations reported by Popcon: 643
libbinio (#674874), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Binary I/O stream class library
Installations reported by Popcon: 5776
libggi (#674876), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: General Graphics Interface runtime libraries
Installations reported by Popcon: 16859
libggigcp (#674877), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: GGI Color and Palette Manager extension
Installations reported by Popcon: 22
libggimisc (#674878), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: General Graphics Interface Misc runtime libraries
Installations reported by Popcon: 618
libggiwmh (#674879), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: GGI Window Manager Hints extension
Installations reported by Popcon: 14415
libgii (#674880), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: General Input Interface runtime libraries
Installations reported by Popcon: 16914
libgiigic (#674881), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: development package for libgiigic
Installations reported by Popcon: 2
libircclient (#674882), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: C library to create IRC clients
Installations reported by Popcon: 449
libquantum (#674883), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: library for the simulation of a quantum computer
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
libview (#674884), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: VMware's Incredibly Exciting Widgets
Installations reported by Popcon: 145
mssh (#674885), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: tool to administrate multiple servers at once
Installations reported by Popcon: 108
plib (#674886), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Portability Libraries: Run-time package
Installations reported by Popcon: 3010
vbetool (#674887), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hardware state
Installations reported by Popcon: 62712
432 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:
at (#675322), offered today
Description: Delayed job execution and batch processing
Installations reported by Popcon: 107389
cdargs (#674833), offered 3 days ago
Description: bookmarks and browsing for the cd command
Installations reported by Popcon: 106
cil (#674829), offered 3 days ago
Description: command line issue tracker
Installations reported by Popcon: 33
fuzzyocr (#674835), offered 3 days ago
Description: spamassassin plugin to check image attachments
Installations reported by Popcon: 151
mumble (#674719), offered 5 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 884
proxychains (#674776), offered 4 days ago
Description: proxy chains - redirect connections through proxy
servers
Installations reported by Popcon: 311
s3cmd (#674916), offered 3 days ago
Description: command-line Amazon S3 client
Installations reported by Popcon: 450
149 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 850 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 55556
asymptote (#517342), requested 1189 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3210
athcool (#278442), requested 2774 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
balsa (#642906), requested 249 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 257
bastille (#592137), requested 663 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 221
boinc (#511243), requested 1239 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1782
cardstories (#624100), requested 402 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 732 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10568
cryptsetup (#600777), requested 589 days ago
Description: configures encrypted block devices
Installations reported by Popcon: 7894
debtags (#567954), requested 850 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2504
doc-central (#566364), requested 859 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 206
elvis (#432298), requested 1788 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 292
fbcat (#565156), requested 869 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 157
flightgear (#487388), requested 1440 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 853
freeipmi (#628062), requested 371 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1331
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1507 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1645
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1372 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 424
gnupg (#660685), requested 101 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 123330
golang (#668870), requested 46 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 218
grub2 (#248397), requested 2943 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 113499
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 918 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1161
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1465 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3848
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 80 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1028
isdnutils (#661110), requested 97 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8185
jove (#470185), requested 1544 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1059
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 953 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 17137
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1195 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 19196
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1068 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 115747
libnss-db (#624768), requested 396 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2590
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1872 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 47011
link-grammar (#556010), requested 930 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 13214
logcheck (#539944), requested 1031 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5064
loop-aes-utils (#385614), requested 2100 days ago
Description: Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
Installations reported by Popcon: 309
mdadm (#537993), requested 1044 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16120
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1457 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 452
monotone (#574609), requested 804 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 282
mtr (#527482), requested 1120 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 16771
munin (#655889), requested 138 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8574
nas (#354174), requested 2289 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 59038
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 96 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 100
nn (#470187), requested 1544 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 102
openbox (#566900), requested 857 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5722
openldap (#512360), requested 1227 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 117285
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2060 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 630
openssl (#332498), requested 2429 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 118929
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 14 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2190
php5 (#664595), requested 73 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 54171
ppp (#589632), requested 682 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 53021
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1178 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8173
pyro (#530280), requested 1104 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1079
quilt (#543541), requested 1010 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 12080
rng-tools (#630920), requested 348 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 619
screen (#654116), requested 150 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40224
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1462 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 7689
serna-free (#640976), requested 265 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 51
spice (#671627), requested 26 days ago
Description: Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment
Installations reported by Popcon: 3785
sql-ledger (#472709), requested 1528 days ago
Description: A web based double-entry accounting program
Installations reported by Popcon: 81
wine (#479659), requested 1486 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13997
xml-core (#660687), requested 101 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 100003
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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