Work-needing packages report for Mar 15, 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: 496 (new: 5)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 142 (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:
cairo-clock (#702599), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: analog clock drawn with vector-graphics
Installations reported by Popcon: 491
gwhere (#702596), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Removable media catalog manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 115
libcgi-untaint-perl (#702591), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: process CGI input parameters
Installations reported by Popcon: 202
libcrypt-unixcrypt-perl (#702595), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: Perl-only implementation of the crypt(3) function
Installations reported by Popcon: 71
libpostscript-simple-perl (#702594), orphaned 6 days ago
Description: generating postscript files
Installations reported by Popcon: 63
491 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 142 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 1137 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 64084
asymptote (#517342), requested 1476 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 4209
athcool (#278442), requested 3061 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 64
balsa (#642906), requested 536 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 792
bastille (#592137), requested 950 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 173
cardstories (#624100), requested 689 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 1019 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 12903
cups (#532097), requested 1377 days ago
Description: Common UNIX Printing System
Installations reported by Popcon: 107490
debtags (#567954), requested 1137 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2488
doc-central (#566364), requested 1146 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 210
fbcat (#565156), requested 1156 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 156
flightgear (#487388), requested 1727 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 804
freeipmi (#628062), requested 658 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 2289
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1794 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2088
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1659 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 484
gnokii (#677750), requested 271 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2192
gnupg (#660685), requested 388 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 137010
golang (#668870), requested 333 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 547
gpa (#663405), requested 369 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 538
gradle (#683666), requested 224 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 28
grub2 (#248397), requested 3230 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 128494
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1205 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1342
horde4 (#686007), requested 199 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1752 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 2803
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 367 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1211
isdnutils (#661110), requested 384 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8382
jove (#470185), requested 1831 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1695
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1240 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 21686
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1482 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18267
libburn (#679249), requested 260 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 57006
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1355 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 131345
libept (#678382), requested 266 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 39102
libisoburn (#679265), requested 260 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 996
libisofs (#679254), requested 260 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 56832
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2159 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 56620
libvorbisidec (#698378), requested 56 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 6879
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1217 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 12552
logcheck (#539944), requested 1318 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5098
maradns (#678460), requested 266 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 99
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1744 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 653
monotone (#574609), requested 1091 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 253
munin (#655889), requested 425 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 9449
nas (#354174), requested 2576 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 67898
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 383 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 110
nn (#470187), requested 1831 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
openldap (#512360), requested 1514 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 132280
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2347 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 835
openssl (#332498), requested 2716 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 133462
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 266 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 22
php5 (#664595), requested 360 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 58274
ppp (#589632), requested 969 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 63757
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1465 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8331
pyro (#530280), requested 1391 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1934
rng-tools (#630920), requested 635 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 755
screen (#654116), requested 437 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 45241
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1749 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6156
serna-free (#640976), requested 552 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
spamassassin (#676314), requested 281 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 14194
wine (#479659), requested 1773 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 16620
worldwind (#693296), requested 119 days ago (non-free)
Description: 3D Virtual Globe
Installations reported by Popcon: 272
xml-core (#660687), requested 388 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 117280
zalign (#686000), requested 199 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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