Work-needing packages report for Feb 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: 531 (new: 7)
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:
ale (#700405), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: synthetic capture engine and renderer
Installations reported by Popcon: 148
gambit (#700407), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Game theory analysis software and tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 69
kst (#700412), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: A KDE application used for displaying scientific data
Installations reported by Popcon: 346
libspiro (#700413), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: a library for curve design (development files)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2082
python-libpcap (#700549), orphaned today
Description: python libpcap wrapper
Installations reported by Popcon: 112
scidavis (#700414), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: application for scientific data analysis and
visualization
Installations reported by Popcon: 489
t1lib (#700415), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Type 1 font rasterizer library - debugging runtime
Installations reported by Popcon: 79638
524 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:
amanda (#700484), offered yesterday
Description: Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
Installations reported by Popcon: 823
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 1109 days ago
Description: maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 62017
asymptote (#517342), requested 1448 days ago
Description: script-based vector graphics language inspired by
MetaPost
Installations reported by Popcon: 4199
athcool (#278442), requested 3033 days ago
Description: Enable powersaving mode for Athlon/Duron processors
Installations reported by Popcon: 62
balsa (#642906), requested 508 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Installations reported by Popcon: 775
bastille (#592137), requested 922 days ago
Description: Security hardening tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 181
cardstories (#624100), requested 661 days ago
Description: Find out a card using a sentence made up by another
player
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
chromium-browser (#583826), requested 991 days ago
Description: Chromium browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 12263
debtags (#567954), requested 1109 days ago
Description: Enables support for package tags
Installations reported by Popcon: 2454
doc-central (#566364), requested 1118 days ago
Description: web-based documentation browser
Installations reported by Popcon: 211
fbcat (#565156), requested 1128 days ago
Description: framebuffer grabber
Installations reported by Popcon: 149
flightgear (#487388), requested 1699 days ago
Description: Flight Gear Flight Simulator
Installations reported by Popcon: 802
freeipmi (#628062), requested 630 days ago
Description: GNU implementation of the IPMI protocol
Installations reported by Popcon: 2207
gnat-4.4 (#539633), requested 1766 days ago
Description: backport bug fixes from trunk (GCC 4.5)
Installations reported by Popcon: 2080
gnat-gps (#496905), requested 1631 days ago
Description: co-maintainer needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 462
gnokii (#677750), requested 243 days ago
Description: Datasuite for mobile phone management
Installations reported by Popcon: 2196
gnupg (#660685), requested 360 days ago
Description: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
Installations reported by Popcon: 133840
golang (#668870), requested 305 days ago
Description: Go programming language compiler - metapackage
Installations reported by Popcon: 491
gpa (#663405), requested 341 days ago
Description: GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
Installations reported by Popcon: 512
gradle (#683666), requested 196 days ago
Description: Groovy based build system
Installations reported by Popcon: 27
grub2 (#248397), requested 3202 days ago
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Installations reported by Popcon: 125232
hfsprogs (#557892), requested 1177 days ago
Description: mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Installations reported by Popcon: 1337
horde4 (#686007), requested 171 days ago
Description: web-based groupware and other applications
hotkey-setup (#483107), requested 1724 days ago
Description: auto-configures laptop hotkeys
Installations reported by Popcon: 2896
irssi-scripts (#663577), requested 339 days ago
Description: collection of scripts for irssi
Installations reported by Popcon: 1242
isdnutils (#661110), requested 356 days ago
Description: ISDN utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 8280
jove (#470185), requested 1803 days ago
Description: Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful
editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 1715
lesstif2 (#551853), requested 1212 days ago
Description: OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation released under LGPL
Installations reported by Popcon: 21179
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 1454 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 18300
libburn (#679249), requested 232 days ago
Description: library to provide CD/DVD writing functions
Installations reported by Popcon: 54828
libcap2 (#534999), requested 1327 days ago
Description: support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 127951
libept (#678382), requested 238 days ago
Description: High-level library for managing Debian package
information
Installations reported by Popcon: 35911
libisoburn (#679265), requested 232 days ago
Description: command line ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge manipulation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 992
libisofs (#679254), requested 232 days ago
Description: library to create ISO9660 images
Installations reported by Popcon: 54643
libreoffice (#419523), requested 2131 days ago
Description: office productivity suite
Installations reported by Popcon: 54684
libvorbisidec (#698378), requested 28 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 6743
link-grammar (#556010), requested 1189 days ago
Description: Carnegie Mellon University's link grammar parser for
English
Installations reported by Popcon: 12733
logcheck (#539944), requested 1290 days ago
Description: mails anomalies in the system logfiles to the
administrator
Installations reported by Popcon: 5033
maradns (#678460), requested 238 days ago
Description: simple security-focused Domain Name Service server
Installations reported by Popcon: 102
mediawiki-extensions (#484545), requested 1716 days ago
Description: set of extensions for MediaWiki
Installations reported by Popcon: 630
monotone (#574609), requested 1063 days ago
Description: a distributed version (revision) control system; more
maintainers needed
Installations reported by Popcon: 268
munin (#655889), requested 397 days ago
Description: please help keeping munin 2.0 in shape
Installations reported by Popcon: 9211
nas (#354174), requested 2548 days ago
Description: The Network Audio System
Installations reported by Popcon: 65764
netdisco-mibs-installer (#661290), requested 355 days ago
Description: Netdisco MIB bundle installer package
Installations reported by Popcon: 106
nn (#470187), requested 1803 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 82
openldap (#512360), requested 1486 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Installations reported by Popcon: 129014
openscenegraph (#392266), requested 2319 days ago
Description: 3d scenegraph
Installations reported by Popcon: 816
openssl (#332498), requested 2688 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Installations reported by Popcon: 130347
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 238 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
par2cmdline (#673225), requested 273 days ago
Description: Parity Archive Volume Set, for checking and repair of
files
Installations reported by Popcon: 2278
php5 (#664595), requested 332 days ago
Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language
Installations reported by Popcon: 57421
ppp (#589632), requested 941 days ago
Description: Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 61327
proftpd-dfsg (#519175), requested 1437 days ago
Description: versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 8229
pyro (#530280), requested 1363 days ago
Description: distributed object system for Python
Installations reported by Popcon: 1918
rng-tools (#630920), requested 607 days ago
Description: Daemon to use a Hardware TRNG
Installations reported by Popcon: 723
screen (#654116), requested 409 days ago
Description: terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
Installations reported by Popcon: 44572
sepolgen (#483641), requested 1721 days ago
Description: A Python module used in SELinux policy generation
Installations reported by Popcon: 6274
serna-free (#640976), requested 524 days ago
Description: Graphical XML editor
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
spamassassin (#676314), requested 253 days ago
Description: seeking co-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 14057
wine (#479659), requested 1745 days ago
Description: Windows API implementation
Installations reported by Popcon: 16148
worldwind (#693296), requested 91 days ago (non-free)
Description: 3D Virtual Globe
Installations reported by Popcon: 269
xml-core (#660687), requested 360 days ago
Description: XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
Installations reported by Popcon: 113743
zalign (#686000), requested 171 days ago
Description: <missing description>
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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