Work-needing packages report for Feb 1, 2013
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: 530 (new: 15)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 141 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requested help for: 62 (new: 0)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
batv-milter (#699110), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Mail Filter (milter) for BATV signing/verification
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
bup (#699163), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: highly efficient file backup system based on git
Installations reported by Popcon: 174
gdome2 (#698981), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: DOM level2 library for accessing XML files
Installations reported by Popcon: 12944
ike-scan (#698994), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: discover and fingerprint IKE hosts (IPsec VPN Servers)
Installations reported by Popcon: 173
inform (#698980), orphaned 5 days ago (non-free)
Description: story file compiler for the Inform interactive fiction
language
Installations reported by Popcon: 38
libdumbnet (#698982), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: A dumb, portable networking library
Installations reported by Popcon: 1228
libnss-ldap (#699114), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: NSS module for using LDAP as a naming service
Installations reported by Popcon: 4678
libpam-ldap (#699116), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Pluggable Authentication Module for LDAP
Installations reported by Popcon: 5033
mrxvt (#698983), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: lightweight multi-tabbed X terminal emulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 511
mt-st (#698986), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Linux SCSI tape driver aware magnetic tape control
Installations reported by Popcon: 1184
nvi (#698988), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi
Installations reported by Popcon: 3248
qmtest (#699036), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: Testing Framework (part of the Quality Management
Toolset (QM))
Installations reported by Popcon: 26
rxvt (#698991), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: VT102 terminal emulator for the X Window System
Installations reported by Popcon: 1969
rxvt-beta (#698992), orphaned 5 days ago
Description: VT102 terminal emulator for the X Window System
Installations reported by Popcon: 94
uucp (#699118), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Unix to Unix Copy Program
Installations reported by Popcon: 1140
515 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:
cityhash (#699101), offered 4 days ago
Description: family of non-cryptographic hash functions for strings
Installations reported by Popcon: 2
140 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 1095 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 61634
asymptote (#517342), requested 1434 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 4137
athcool (#278442), requested 3019 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 65
balsa (#642906), requested 494 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 782
bastille (#592137), requested 908 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 176
cardstories (#624100), requested 647 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 977 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 11967
debtags (#567954), requested 1095 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2441
doc-central (#566364), requested 1104 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 202
fbcat (#565156), requested 1114 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 158
flightgear (#487388), requested 1685 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 797
freeipmi (#628062), requested 616 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 2172
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1752 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2099
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1617 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 458
gnokii (#677750), requested 229 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2226
gnupg (#660685), requested 346 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 132838
golang (#668870), requested 291 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 471
gpa (#663405), requested 327 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 509
gradle (#683666), requested 182 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
grub2 (#248397), requested 3188 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 124220
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1163 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1327
horde4 (#686007), requested 157 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1710 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 2930
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 325 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1198
isdnutils (#661110), requested 342 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8003
jove (#470185), requested 1789 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1565
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1198 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 20827
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1440 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18258
libburn (#679249), requested 218 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 54318
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1313 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 126915
libept (#678382), requested 224 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 34826
libisoburn (#679265), requested 218 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 978
libisofs (#679254), requested 218 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 54132
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2117 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 54251
libvorbisidec (#698378), requested 14 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 6703
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1175 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 12774
logcheck (#539944), requested 1276 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5039
maradns (#678460), requested 224 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 98
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1702 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 625
monotone (#574609), requested 1049 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 273
munin (#655889), requested 383 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 9186
nas (#354174), requested 2534 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 65056
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 341 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 109
nn (#470187), requested 1789 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 84
openldap (#512360), requested 1472 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 127969
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2305 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 794
openssl (#332498), requested 2674 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 129335
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 224 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 22
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 259 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2262
php5 (#664595), requested 318 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 56957
ppp (#589632), requested 927 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 60721
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1423 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8227
pyro (#530280), requested 1349 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1796
rng-tools (#630920), requested 593 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 724
screen (#654116), requested 395 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 43953
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1707 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6311
serna-free (#640976), requested 510 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
spamassassin (#676314), requested 239 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 14029
wine (#479659), requested 1731 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 15969
worldwind (#693296), requested 77 days ago (non-free)
Description: 3D Virtual Globe
Installations reported by Popcon: 264
xml-core (#660687), requested 346 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 112776
zalign (#686000), requested 157 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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