Work-needing packages report for Mar 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: 492 (new: 0)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 143 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 64 (new: 2)
Please refer to http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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No new packages have been orphaned, but a total of 492 packages are
orphaned. 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:
ap-utils (#703278), offered 4 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 158
esperanza (#703649), offered today
Installations reported by Popcon: 214
141 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:
[NEW] apt-file (#703366), requested 3 days ago
Description: search for files within Debian packages (command-line
interface)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13348
[NEW] gridengine (#703256), requested 4 days ago
Description: Distributed resource management
Installations reported by Popcon: 1241
apt-xapian-index (#567955), requested 1144 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 64026
asymptote (#517342), requested 1483 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 4206
athcool (#278442), requested 3068 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 66
balsa (#642906), requested 543 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 794
bastille (#592137), requested 957 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 170
cardstories (#624100), requested 696 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 1026 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 13009
cups (#532097), requested 1384 days ago
Description: Common UNIX Printing System
Installations reported by Popcon: 107428
debtags (#567954), requested 1144 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2473
doc-central (#566364), requested 1153 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 209
fbcat (#565156), requested 1163 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 154
flightgear (#487388), requested 1734 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 796
freeipmi (#628062), requested 665 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 2302
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1801 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2082
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1666 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 484
gnokii (#677750), requested 278 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2170
gnupg (#660685), requested 395 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 137018
golang (#668870), requested 340 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 566
gpa (#663405), requested 376 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 548
gradle (#683666), requested 231 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 29
grub2 (#248397), requested 3237 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 128542
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1212 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1344
horde4 (#686007), requested 206 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1759 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 2791
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 374 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1201
isdnutils (#661110), requested 391 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8406
jove (#470185), requested 1838 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1689
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1247 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 21703
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1489 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18274
libburn (#679249), requested 267 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 56918
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1362 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 131372
libept (#678382), requested 273 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 39530
libisoburn (#679265), requested 267 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 1006
libisofs (#679254), requested 267 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 56743
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2166 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 56642
libvorbisidec (#698378), requested 63 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 6879
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1224 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 12415
logcheck (#539944), requested 1325 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5079
maradns (#678460), requested 273 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 100
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1751 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 656
monotone (#574609), requested 1098 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 251
munin (#655889), requested 432 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 9492
nas (#354174), requested 2583 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 67853
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 390 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 109
nn (#470187), requested 1838 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 91
openldap (#512360), requested 1521 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 132293
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2354 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 835
openssl (#332498), requested 2723 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 133484
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 273 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 22
php5 (#664595), requested 367 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 58336
ppp (#589632), requested 976 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 63711
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1472 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8300
pyro (#530280), requested 1398 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1879
rng-tools (#630920), requested 642 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 741
screen (#654116), requested 444 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 45272
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1756 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6116
serna-free (#640976), requested 559 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 56
spamassassin (#676314), requested 288 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 14219
wine (#479659), requested 1780 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 16638
worldwind (#693296), requested 126 days ago (non-free)
Description: 3D Virtual Globe
Installations reported by Popcon: 260
xml-core (#660687), requested 395 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 117406
zalign (#686000), requested 206 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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