Work-needing packages report for Oct 16, 2020

2020-10-15 Thread wnpp
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: 1179 (new: 0)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 209 (new: 1)
Total number of packages requested help for: 63 (new: 0)

Please refer to https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.



No new packages have been orphaned, but a total of 1179 packages are
orphaned.  See https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned
for a complete list.



The following packages have been given up for adoption:

   privacybadger (#972003), offered 4 days ago
 Description: Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible
   trackers
 Reverse Depends: parl-desktop progress-linux-desktop
 Installations reported by Popcon: 311
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/972003

208 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage for a complete list.



For the following packages help is requested:

   album-data (#964105), requested 106 days ago (non-free)
 Description: themes, plugins and translations for album
 Installations reported by Popcon: 87
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/964105

   apache2 (#910917), requested 733 days ago
 Description: Apache HTTP Server
 Reverse Depends: apache2 apache2-ssl-dev apache2-suexec-custom
   apache2-suexec-pristine backuppc courier-webadmin cvsweb debbugs-web
   doc-central dwww (132 more omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 94283
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/910917

   asciio (#968843), requested 54 days ago
 Description: dynamically create ASCII charts and graphs with GTK+2
 Installations reported by Popcon: 86
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/968843

   aufs (#963191), requested 117 days ago
 Description: driver for a union mount for Linux filesystems
 Reverse Depends: fsprotect
 Installations reported by Popcon: 14633
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/963191

   autopkgtest (#846328), requested 1415 days ago
 Description: automatic as-installed testing for Debian packages
 Reverse Depends: debci-worker
 Installations reported by Popcon: 1223
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/846328

   balsa (#642906), requested 3308 days ago
 Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
 Installations reported by Popcon: 696
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/642906

   broadcom-sta (#886599), requested 1011 days ago (non-free)
 Description: Broadcom STA Wireless driver (non-free)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 1717
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/886599

   cargo (#860116), requested 1283 days ago
 Description: Rust package manager
 Reverse Depends: dh-cargo
 Installations reported by Popcon: 1709
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/860116

   cyrus-imapd (#921717), requested 615 days ago
 Description: Cyrus mail system - IMAP support
 Reverse Depends: cyrus-admin cyrus-caldav cyrus-clients cyrus-dev
   cyrus-imapd cyrus-murder cyrus-nntpd cyrus-pop3d cyrus-replication
 Installations reported by Popcon: 433
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/921717

   cyrus-sasl2 (#799864), requested 1849 days ago
 Description: authentication abstraction library
 Reverse Depends: 389-ds-base adcli autofs-ldap cyrus-caldav
   cyrus-clients cyrus-common cyrus-dev cyrus-imapd cyrus-imspd
   cyrus-murder (77 more omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 198187
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/799864

   dbad (#947550), requested 292 days ago
 Description: dnsmasq-based ad-blocking using pixelserv
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/947550

   debtags (#962579), requested 127 days ago
 Description: Debian Package Tags support tools
 Reverse Depends: packagesearch
 Installations reported by Popcon: 1631
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/962579

   dee (#831388), requested 1553 days ago
 Description: model to synchronize mutiple instances over DBus
 Reverse Depends: dee-tools gir1.2-dee-1.0 gir1.2-unity-5.0
   libdee-dev libunity-dev libunity-protocol-private0 libunity-tools
   libunity9 zeitgeist-core
 Installations reported by Popcon: 29578
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/831388

   developers-reference (#759995), requested 2238 days ago
 Description: guidelines and information for Debian developers
 Installations reported by Popcon: 5650
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/759995

   devscripts (#800413), requested 1843 days ago
 Description: scripts to make the life of a Debian Package m

Re: Work-needing packages report for Oct 16, 2020

2020-10-15 Thread Brett Gilio
w...@debian.org writes:

> 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: 1179 (new: 0)
> Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 209 (new: 1)
> Total number of packages requested help for: 63 (new: 0)
>
> Please refer to https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
>

Noob question, as I am still working through the Debian contributor
documentation. How does one adopt a package? I am interested in
swi-prolog and smlnj, here. Feel free to link me the relevant
information if I am just overlooking something, I do not wish to be a
help vampire :)

Thanks!

-- 
Brett M. Gilio
bre...@gnu.org
https://brettgilio.com/
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Re: Work-needing packages report for Oct 16, 2020

2020-10-15 Thread Brett Gilio
w...@debian.org writes:

> 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: 1179 (new: 0)
> Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 209 (new: 1)
> Total number of packages requested help for: 63 (new: 0)
>
> Please refer to https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
>

Noob question, as I am still working through the Debian contributor
documentation. How does one adopt a package? I am interested in
swi-prolog and smlnj, here. Feel free to link me the relevant
information if I am just overlooking something, I do not wish to be a
help vampire :)

Thanks!

-- 
Brett M. Gilio
bre...@gnu.org
https://brettgilio.com/
E82A C026 95D6 FF02 43CA 1E5C F6C5 2DD1 BA27 CB87



Re: Work-needing packages report for Oct 16, 2020

2020-10-15 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 2:30 AM Brett Gilio wrote:

> Noob question, as I am still working through the Debian contributor
> documentation. How does one adopt a package? I am interested in
> swi-prolog and smlnj, here. Feel free to link me the relevant
> information if I am just overlooking something, I do not wish to be a
> help vampire :)

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#adopting-a-package
https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors/rfs-howto/

--
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise



Re: Work-needing packages report for Oct 16, 2020

2020-10-15 Thread Brett Gilio
Paul Wise  writes:

> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html#adopting-a-package
> https://mentors.debian.net/sponsors/rfs-howto/
>

Thanks a million, pabs!

-- 
Brett M. Gilio
bre...@gnu.org
https://brettgilio.com/
E82A C026 95D6 FF02 43CA 1E5C F6C5 2DD1 BA27 CB87