Work-needing packages report for Feb 22, 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: 532 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 140 (new: 0)
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:
dds2tar (#701029), orphaned yesterday
Description: Tools for using DDS features of DAT drives with GNU tar
Installations reported by Popcon: 82
hotot (#700654), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: lightweight microblogging client
Installations reported by Popcon: 393
530 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 140 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 1116 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 62364
asymptote (#517342), requested 1455 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 4178
athcool (#278442), requested 3040 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 62
balsa (#642906), requested 515 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 774
bastille (#592137), requested 929 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 186
cardstories (#624100), requested 668 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 998 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 12421
debtags (#567954), requested 1116 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2444
doc-central (#566364), requested 1125 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 203
fbcat (#565156), requested 1135 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 149
flightgear (#487388), requested 1706 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 806
freeipmi (#628062), requested 637 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 2214
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1773 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2074
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1638 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 461
gnokii (#677750), requested 250 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2205
gnupg (#660685), requested 367 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 134477
golang (#668870), requested 312 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 514
gpa (#663405), requested 348 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 512
gradle (#683666), requested 203 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 29
grub2 (#248397), requested 3209 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 125898
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1184 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1327
horde4 (#686007), requested 178 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1731 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 2875
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 346 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1244
isdnutils (#661110), requested 363 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8282
jove (#470185), requested 1810 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1699
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1219 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 21252
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1461 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18324
libburn (#679249), requested 239 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 55179
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1334 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 128636
libept (#678382), requested 245 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 36508
libisoburn (#679265), requested 239 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 991
libisofs (#679254), requested 239 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 55004
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2138 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 55014
libvorbisidec (#698378), requested 35 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 6791
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1196 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 12672
logcheck (#539944), requested 1297 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5041
maradns (#678460), requested 245 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 96
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1723 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 629
monotone (#574609), requested 1070 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 268
munin (#655889), requested 404 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 9286
nas (#354174), requested 2555 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 66162
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 362 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 104
nn (#470187), requested 1810 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 81
openldap (#512360), requested 1493 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 129696
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2326 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 821
openssl (#332498), requested 2695 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 130989
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 245 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 280 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2301
php5 (#664595), requested 339 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 57643
ppp (#589632), requested 948 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 61730
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1444 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8280
pyro (#530280), requested 1370 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1907
rng-tools (#630920), requested 614 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 729
screen (#654116), requested 416 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 44749
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1728 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6235
serna-free (#640976), requested 531 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 53
spamassassin (#676314), requested 260 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 14136
wine (#479659), requested 1752 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 16260
worldwind (#693296), requested 98 days ago (non-free)
Description: 3D Virtual Globe
Installations reported by Popcon: 260
xml-core (#660687), requested 367 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 114456
zalign (#686000), requested 178 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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