Work-needing packages report for Mar 11, 2016

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: 727 (new: 2) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 192 (new: 1) Total number of packages request

{MBF}: Upcoming changes in flex to accommodate multiarch

Hi, Executive summary: An upcoming release of flex is going to stop pulling in libfl-dev; which will impact packages that build C++ scanners (and thus need FlexLexer.h). Please update your packages Build-depends line if it is affected (lists follow). Until recently, it was labe

Bug#817856: ITP: pythonpy -- 'python -c', with tab completion and shorthand

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tiago Ilieve * Package name: pythonpy Version : 0.4.4 Upstream Author : Russell Stewart * URL : https://github.com/Russell91/pythonpy * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : 'python -c', with tab c

Bug#817849: ITP: node-blessed -- A high-level terminal interface library for node.js

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ondřej Nový" * Package name: node-blessed Version : 0.1.81 Upstream Author : Christopher Jeffrey * URL : https://github.com/chjj/blessed * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : A high-level t

Jasper removal for stretch

Hi, here's a headsup for the upcoming removal of the jasper JPEG200 library for stretch (and the archive in general). It's been unmaintained for nearly a decade, please als see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812630 A removal tracker has been setup by the release team at h ttps:

Bug#817835: ITP: libambix -- AMBIsonics eXchange library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: IOhannes m zmoelnig * Package name: libambix Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Johannes Zmölnig * URL : http://ambisonics.iem.at/xchange/fileformat * License : LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: C Description : AMBIsonic

Bug#817834: ITP: ambix-plugins -- ambiX Ambisonic plug-in suite

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: IOhannes m zmoelnig * Package name: ambix-plugins Version : 0.2.5 Upstream Author : Matthias Kronlachner * URL : http://www.matthiaskronlachner.com/?p=2015 * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : ambi

Bug#817822: ITP: libxml-compile-wsdl11-perl -- Perl module to handle SOAP messaging with WSDL version 1.1

Package: wnpp Owner: Nick Morrott Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libxml-compile-wsdl11-perl Version : 3.04 Upstream Author : Mark Overmeer * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/XML-Compile-WS

Bug#817805: develop a means for apt-get update to learn about new archive signing subkeys

Package: apt Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-...@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org We would like to start creating the keys that sign unstable in crypto tokens, so that they are never seen by a general purpose comuting devices. These keys would probably be subkeys of the ftp

Mass filing wish list bugs against package depending on dbconfig-common [WAS: Re: dbconfig-common: near future change in dependency stack]

Hi all, The new style dbconfig-common packages live already for some time in the archive, and I haven't received any complaint/bug yet about the database dependent packages. This means that I believe it is time to bug the maintainers of packages that depend on dbconfig-common with a wish list bug