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Debian NewsUpdates on the Debian Project |
| 24 March 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: wmnetload — an app for monitorin network load
- O: moodle — Course Management System for Online Learning
- O: olive — console RSS reader
- O: gurlchecker — Graphical websites checker
- O: kde-icons-noia — Noia icon theme for KDE 3
- O: kde-icons-crystal — Crystal icon theme for KDE
- O: kwavecontrol — Wireless device monitoring application for KDE
- O: texify — Beautify source code for use with LaTeX
- O: udpcast — multicast file transfer tool
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: asterisk-espeak — eSpeak module for Asterisk
- RFP: asterisk-flite — flite module for Asterisk
- RFP: liarliar — a computerized voice stress analysis (CVSA) tool
- RFP: libeval-context-perl — evalute perl code in context wrapper
- RFP: libroxml — Light C XML parsing library
- RFP: libnss-myhostname — nss module to resolve the system hostname
- RFP: hbasic — A visual style compiled basic and integrated development environment
- RFP: oftpd — A lightweight anonymous ftpd server daemon
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 17 March 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: epic4-script-hienoa — A script for ircII-EPIC4
- O: ctrlproxy — IRC proxy with conversation replay support
- O: blackbox — Window manager for X
- O: jamin — Audio mastering from a mixed down multitrack source with JACK
- O: dvbackup — backup tool using MiniDV camcorders
- O: liblrdf — liblrdf0 development files
- O: w3c-markup-validator — W3C Markup Validator
- O: ctrlproxy — IRC proxy with conversation replay support
- O: ccontrol — Compilation controller
- O: curl — Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or FTP server
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: logfsprogs — LogFS file system utilities
- RFP: freemodbus — Modbus ASCII/RTU and TCP implementation
- RFP: gfloppy — floppy disk formatting tool
- RFP: libnet-whois-parser-perl — Perl Module for parsing whois information
- RFP: cronometer — A nutrition and biomarker tracking tool
- RFP: nut-nutrition — Record and analyze meals for nutrient composition
- RFP: dmak — Diet Monger Ass Kicker
- RFP: chive — Chive is a next generation web-based MySQL database management tool.
- RFP: ngplant — Open Source plant modeling package
- RFP: xvattr — Command-line tool to set XVideo attributes
- RFP: libdbxml — Berkeley DB XML library
- RFP: squid-deb-proxy — Squid proxy configuration optimized for deb packages
- RFP: perf — perf – Performance analysis tools for Linux
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 10 March 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: tla-buildpackage — Suite to help with Debian packages in Arch archives
- O: prismstumbler — Wireless network sniffer
- O: acorn-fdisk — Partition editor for Acorn/RISC OS machines
- O: wdm — WINGs Display Manager – an xdm replacement with a WindowMaker look
- O: mrd6 — IPv6 Multicast Routing Daemon
- O: lavaps — a lava lamp of currently running processes
- O: pam-shield — locks out remote attackers trying password guessing
- O: genpower — Monitor UPS and handle line power failures
- O: signify — Automatic, semi-random “.signature” rotator/generator
- O: squid-prefetch — Simple page-prefetch for Squid web proxy
- O: vux — A rating-based, random ogg and mp3 player
- O: openverse — A graphical chat client/server written in tcl/tk
- O: pnm2ppa — PPM to PPA converter
- O: pgdocs — PostgreSQL documentation in PDF format on US letter paper
- O: mediamate — web-based movie database and tracker
- O: hrd — the puzzle game of HuaRongDao
- O: log2mail — Daemon watching logfiles and mailing lines matching patterns
- O: xpm2wico — An Xpm to Windows .ico converter
- O: gourmet — A gtk-based recipe organizer and shopping list generator
- O: perlipq
- O: gift-gnutella — giFT plugin for the Gnutella network
- O: palo — Linux boot loader for parisc/hppa
- O: dglog — CGI log analyzer for DansGuardian
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: ps2book — ps2book reads one or serval
- RFP: ladvd — cdp / lldp sender for unix
- RFP: muRoarD — minimalist sound server for RoarAudio protocol
- RFP: RoarAudio PlayList Daemon – Music playing daemon for RoarAudio
- RFP: okai — online multiplayer solution for arcade games
- RFP: usmb — usmb – samba (CIFS) FUSE module
- RFP: maven-scala-plugin — A maven plugin for compiling, testing and running scala code in maven
- RFP: phonon-backend-mplayer — mplayer backend for phonon
- RFP: sfio-dev — Phong Vo’s Safe Fast I/O Library (AT&T Advanced Software Technology)
- RFP: jmemorize — flash card program to aid learning foreign languages
- RFP: plasma-widget-daisy — Plasmoid simple application launcher like Mac OS X dock
- RFP: hivex — Windows Registry “hive” extraction library
- RFP: netcf — library for configuring network interfaces
- RFP: python-nmap — Python class to use nmap from nmap
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 3 March 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: sfftobmp — SFF (Structed Fax File) Converter
- O: libcoveb — range finding priority queue using optimized data structure
- O: libcsoap — shared CSOAP library for SOAP client/server in C
- O: libgpgme-ruby — GPGME bindings for the Ruby language
- O: libsvm-ruby — Ruby bindings for LIBSVM library
- O: libqsearch — quartet tree search library for hierarchical clustering
- O: libcomplearn-mod-ppmd — PPMD compression module for CompLearn pattern recognition system
- O: libcomplearn — machine-learning with data compression core library runtime files
- O: libcomplearn-mod-lzmax — LZMA compression module for CompLearn pattern recognition system
- O: israndom — nonclassical randomness test using data compressors
- O: libcomplearn-ruby — Ruby binding to CompLearn library
- O: libcomplearn-mod-ppmdx — external PPMD compression module for CompLearn learning library
- O: complearn-gui — interactive 3d data mining tool and demo for universal machine learning
- O: msrp — meta search and replace tool for both filenames and files
- O: blm — Boolean line manipulator utility program for set operations
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: yagf-ocr — Qt4 GUI for cuneiform OCR
- RFP: xmind — Social brainstorming and mindmapping
- RFP: ttf-induni — Font mostly for Indian languages
- RFP: joomla — content management system (CMS) written in PHP
- RFP: xserver-xorg-video-s3c64xx — xserver xorg accelerated video driver for samsung arm s3c64xx
- RFP: sweethome3d — free interior design application with 3D capabilities
- RFP: gphotoframe — photo frame gadget for the GNOME Desktop
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 24 February 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: s3switch — Manage the output device on S3 Savage chips
- O: libcdk5 — C-based curses widget library
- O: darcs-buildpackage — Suite to help with Debian packages in Darcs archives
- O: washngo — Web Authoring System for Haskell
- O: serendipity — Weblog manager with extensive theming and plugin support
- O: libramaze-ruby
- O: libsequel-core-ruby
- O: libsequel-ruby
- O: libinnate-ruby
- O: libmetaid-ruby
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: mathml — Fonts for MathML-enabled Mozilla
- RFP: FriCAS – an advanced computer algebra system
- RFP: lessfs — A high performance inline data deduplicating filesystem for Linux
- RFP: dunnart — constraint-based diagram editor
- RFP: trac-httpauth — Force HTTP authentication from within Trac
- RFP: trac-metrix — show project progress statistics and quality metrics
- RFP: trac-reposearch — search the source code repository from Trac
- RFP: trac-filenamesearch — search file names in the repository from Trac
- RFP: mobius-forensic-toolkit — forensic framework with extension interface
- RFP: gnetworktester — test the quality of a network connection
- RFP: libmbfl — streamable multibyte character code filter and converter library
- RFP: pyrit — challenge WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK security
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 17 February 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: 6tunnel — TCP proxy for non-IPv6 applications
- O: dnstracer — trace DNS queries to the source
- O: pktstat — top-like utility for network connections usage
- O: corkscrew — tunnel TCP connections through HTTP proxies
- O: php-pager — Pages an array of data, creating links to previous and next pages
- O: php-cache-lite — Fast and lite data cache system
- O: xasteroids — X-based asteroids-style arcade game
- O: courieruserinfo — Retrieve courier user account information
- O: courierpasswd — Authenticate courier passwords with checkpassword interface
- O: courierpassd — Change courier user passwords using poppassd interface
- O: wmfire — very cool fiery way of showing your CPU usage
- O: php-simpletest — Unit testing and web testing framework for PHP
- O: libclass-container-perl — Glues object frameworks together transparently
- O: link-monitor-applet — GNOME Panel Applet with bar graph of round-trip times to hosts
- O: pmtools — Perl module tools
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
- RFA: glabels — label, business card and media cover creation program for GNOME
- RFA: hotwire — Extensible graphical command execution shell
- RFA: regexxer — A visual search and replace tool
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: davmail — POP/IMAP/SMTP/CalDav/LDAP Exchange Gateway allowing users to use any mail/calendar client
- RFP: sparql-query — Command line SPARQL query tool
- RFP: libdancer-perl — micro-framewrok for writing web applications with Perl
- RFP: twitim — small desktop Twitter client written in Perl GTK
- RFP: biblatex-biber — A BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, with full Unicode support, written in Perl.
- RFP: dotclear — Dotclear is an open-source web publishing software.
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 10 February 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: magyarispell — The Hungarian dictionary for myspell
- O: chktex — Finds typographic errors in LaTeX
- O: gbdfed — X11 font editor
- O: ivritex — Hebrew Package for the babel system and LaTeX2e
- O: template-new — A template system
- O: ketchup — update utility for linux-kernel sources
- O: websec — Web Secretary – Web page monitoring software with highlighting
- O: pstack — Display stack trace of a running process
- O: wiggle — a program for applying patches with conflicting changes
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
- RFA: php5-symfony1.0 — Open-Source PHP Web Framework
- RFA: smokeping — latency logging and graphing system
- RFA: speedy-cgi-perl — speed up perl scripts by making them persistent
- RFA: systemtap — instrumentation system for Linux 2.6
- RFA: tetradraw — ANSI drawing and viewing utility
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: can-utils — CAN (Controller Area Network) utilities based on Socket-CAN
- RFP: libapp-daemon-perl — helps running an application as a daemon
- RFP: xf86-video-msm — x drivers for msm/qsd arm chipset
- RFP: searchload — SearchLoad Options adds a menu for tweaking the searchbar’s default behavior
- RFP: didjvu — encoding into DjVu with layers separation
- RFP: python-scikits-umfpack — wrappers of UMFPACK sparse direct solver to SciPy
- RFP: darktable — a virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 3 February 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: newpki — PKI based on the OpenSSL low-level API
- O: libqwt — Qt widgets library for technical applications
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
- RFA: ent — pseudorandom number sequence test program
- RFA: mimms — mms (e.g. mms://) stream downloader
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
- RFH: miredo — Teredo IPv6 tunneling through NATs
- RFH: debtags — Enables support for package tags
- RFH: apt-xapian-index — maintenance tools for a Xapian index of Debian packages
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: forrest — Website creation tool
- RFP: otf-titillium — Series of sans-serif fonts from Italy
- RFP: libsysactivity — Retrieves statistics of the system’s activity in a thread-safe way
- RFP: danger-from-the-deep — WWII German submarine 3D simulation
- RFP: handbrake — video transcoder
- RFP: ros-pdf — PHP class for creating PDF documents
- RFP: dompdf — CSS2.1 compliant HTML to PDF converter written in PHP
- RFP: ocrfeeder — document layout analysis and OCR system
- RFP: simavr — a simple, lean and mean AVR simulator
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 27 January 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: fortunes-ru — Russian data files for fortune
- O: polipo — a small, caching web proxy
- O: ysmv7 — Powerful console ICQ client
- O: multisync — A program to synchronize PIM data
- O: myspell-el-gr — Greek (el_GR) dictionary for myspell
- O: alltray — Dock any program into the system tray
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
- RFA: google-gadgets — Common files for QT and GTK+ versions of google-gadgets
- RFA: d-shlibs — Debian shared library package building helper scripts
- RFA: podracer — podcast aggregator/downloader
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
- RFH: doc-central — web-based documentation browser
- RFH: openbox — standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: transifex — web-based localization platform
- RFP: haskell-fuse — Haskell bindings for FUSE: Filesystem in USErspace
- RFP: pyodbc — Python ODBC library
- RFP: openpgm — Implementation of the Pragmatic General Multicast protocol
- RFP: python-aiml — Python interpreter for AIML, the Artificial Intelligence Markup Language
- RFP: rawtherapee — powerful yet convenient digital camera RAW image conversion tool
- RFP: libspring-richclient-java — A Java GUI Framework based on Springsource
- RFP: svgmath — MathML to SVG Converter in Python
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
| 20 January 10 |
The following packages have been orphaned and are looking for a new maintainer:
- O: webcam-server — a tool to share webcam streaming in www-browser
- O: fdutils — Linux floppy utilities
- O: pam-passwdqc — replacement for the pam_cracklib module
- O: kxstitch — cross-stitch pattern creator and editor for KDE
- O: python-contract — Programming by contract for python
The following packages have been put up for adoption by the current maintainers:
- RFA: ssed — The super sed stream editor
- RFA: openslp-dfsg — OpenSLP documentation
- RFA: ipsec-tools — IPsec tools for Linux
- RFA: duma — library to detect buffer overruns and under-runs in C and C++ programs
The following packages are requesting co-maintainers:
Somebody asked for the following software to be packaged in Debian:
- RFP: libnet-gpsd3-perl — Interface to the gpsd server daemon protocol version 3 (JSON)
- RFP: mariadb-server — community developed branch of the MySQL database that uses the Maria engine by default.
- RFP: python-alsa — Official ALSA python binding, including hardware management, mixer and sequencer control
- RFP: mbuni — Open Source MMS Gateway
- RFP: libcucumber-ruby — execute plain-text functional descriptions as automated tests
- RFP: grossd — mixture of greylisting (postgrey) and policyd-weight
- RFP: gstreamer0.10-espeak — GStreamer Text-To-Speech plugin utilizing the eSpeak software speech synthesizer
You can read more information about how to help at Work-Needing and Prospective Packages page.
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