Work-needing packages report for Aug 3, 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: 459 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 144 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 65 (new: 1)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
shoes (#683393), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: tiny graphics and windowing toolkit using Ruby
Installations reported by Popcon: 32
subcommander (#683115), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Graphical client for Subversion
Installations reported by Popcon: 182
457 older packages have been omitted from this listing, 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 144 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:
[NEW] gradle (#683666), requested today
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 29
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 913 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 54294
asymptote (#517342), requested 1252 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 3040
athcool (#278442), requested 2837 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 80
balsa (#642906), requested 312 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 254
bastille (#592137), requested 726 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 212
boinc (#511243), requested 1302 days ago
Description: BOINC distributed computing
Installations reported by Popcon: 1615
cardstories (#624100), requested 465 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 795 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 10095
debtags (#567954), requested 913 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2497
doc-central (#566364), requested 922 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 203
elvis (#432298), requested 1851 days ago
Description: powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor (with X11
support)
Installations reported by Popcon: 301
fbcat (#565156), requested 932 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 145
flightgear (#487388), requested 1503 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 782
freeipmi (#628062), requested 434 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 1737
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1570 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1615
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1435 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 416
gnokii (#677750), requested 47 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2413
gnupg (#660685), requested 164 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 121366
golang (#668870), requested 109 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 245
gpa (#663405), requested 145 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 511
grub2 (#248397), requested 3006 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 112087
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 981 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1133
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1528 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 3500
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 143 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1006
isdnutils (#661110), requested 160 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8990
jove (#470185), requested 1607 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1104
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1016 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 16632
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1258 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18471
libburn (#679249), requested 36 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 46127
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1131 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 114412
libept (#678382), requested 42 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 21293
libisoburn (#679265), requested 36 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 753
libisofs (#679254), requested 36 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 45981
libnss-db (#624768), requested 459 days ago
Description: NSS module for using Berkeley Databases as a naming
service
Installations reported by Popcon: 2492
libreoffice (#419523), requested 1935 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 45568
link-grammar (#556010), requested 993 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 12822
logcheck (#539944), requested 1094 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5061
maradns (#678460), requested 42 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
mdadm (#537993), requested 1107 days ago
Description: tool to administer Linux MD arrays (software RAID)
Installations reported by Popcon: 16249
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1520 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 469
monotone (#574609), requested 867 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 278
mtr (#527482), requested 1183 days ago
Description: Full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 16056
munin (#655889), requested 201 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 8790
nas (#354174), requested 2352 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 57187
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 159 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 98
nn (#470187), requested 1607 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 101
openbox (#566900), requested 920 days ago
Description: standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible
window manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 5537
openldap (#512360), requested 1290 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 115678
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2123 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 660
openssl (#332498), requested 2492 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 117298
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 42 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 14
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 77 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2152
php5 (#664595), requested 136 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 53610
ppp (#589632), requested 745 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 51575
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1241 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8062
pyro (#530280), requested 1167 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1112
quilt (#543541), requested 1073 days ago
Description: Tool to work with series of patches
Installations reported by Popcon: 11762
rng-tools (#630920), requested 411 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 636
screen (#654116), requested 213 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 40297
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1525 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 7188
serna-free (#640976), requested 328 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 50
spamassassin (#676314), requested 57 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 13084
wine (#479659), requested 1549 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 13533
xml-core (#660687), requested 164 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 99037
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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