Work-needing packages report for Nov 25, 2022
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: 1250 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 169 (new: 0) 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 1250 packages are orphaned. See https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list. No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 169 packages are awaiting adoption. See https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage for a complete list. For the following packages help is requested: apache2 (#910917), requested 1503 days ago Description: Apache HTTP Server Reverse Depends: apache2 apache2-ssl-dev apache2-suexec-custom apache2-suexec-pristine backuppc bfh-container-server courier-webadmin cvsweb debbugs-web doc-central (129 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 97994 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/910917 apparmor (#1006872), requested 262 days ago Description: user-space parser utility for AppArmor Reverse Depends: apparmor-notify apparmor-profiles apparmor-profiles-extra apparmor-utils content-hub-testability dbus-broker dbus-daemon dbus-tests debian-cloud-images-packages dovecot-core (18 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 190001 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1006872 aufs (#963191), requested 887 days ago Description: driver for a union mount for Linux filesystems Reverse Depends: fsprotect Installations reported by Popcon: 7161 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/963191 autopkgtest (#846328), requested 2185 days ago Description: automatic as-installed testing for Debian packages Reverse Depends: debci-worker sbuild-qemu Installations reported by Popcon: 1147 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/846328 balsa (#642906), requested 4078 days ago Description: An e-mail client for GNOME Reverse Depends: balsa Installations reported by Popcon: 594 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/642906 cargo (#860116), requested 2053 days ago Description: Rust package manager Reverse Depends: dh-cargo python3-setuptools-rust rust-all Installations reported by Popcon: 2785 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/860116 chromium (#1016047), requested 121 days ago Description: web browser Reverse Depends: chromium chromium-driver chromium-l10n chromium-shell icingaweb2-module-pdfexport node-puppeteer qunit-selenium x2gothinclient-minidesktop Installations reported by Popcon: 24929 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1016047 courier (#978755), requested 693 days ago Description: Courier mail server Reverse Depends: courier-faxmail courier-filter-perl courier-imap courier-ldap courier-mlm courier-mta courier-pcp courier-pop courier-webadmin couriergrey (3 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 857 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/978755 cron (#984736), requested 627 days ago Description: new maintainer need Reverse Depends: apticron autolog backintime-common bcron btrfsmaintenance buildd checksecurity clamtk cricket cron (24 more omitted) Installations reported by Popcon: 208351 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/984736 crun (#1016183), requested 119 days ago Description: lightweight OCI runtime for running containers Reverse Depends: podman Installations reported by Popcon: 1543 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1016183 cyrus-imapd (#921717), requested 1385 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: 400 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/921717 debtags (#962579), requested 897 days ago Description: Debian Package Tags support tools Reverse Depends: packagesearch Installations reported by Popcon: 1357 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/962579 dee (#831388), requested 2323 days ago Description: model to synchronize mutiple instances over DBus Reverse Depends: dee-tools gir1.2-dee-1.0 gir1.2-unity-7.0 libdee-dev libunity-dev libunity-protocol-private0 libunity-tools libunity9 zeitgeist-core Installations reported by Popcon: 44638 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.or
Bug#1024776: ITP: golang-github-slackhq-nebula -- scalable overlay networking (Go library)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peymaneh * Package name: golang-github-slackhq-nebula Version : 1.6.1-1 Upstream Author : Slack * URL : https://github.com/slackhq/nebula * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : scalable overlay networking tool (Go library) Nebula is a scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security. The library files are needed as a builddependency for updating golang-github-smallstep-certificates and caddy
Re: Misc Developer News (#58)
remove me from the email list please regards, On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 12:19 AM Paul Wise wrote: > The news are collected on https://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews > Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. > > In this issue: > + anacron might be disabled if 2.3-33 was ever installed > + riscv64 porterbox > + porterbox DNS alias maintainers needed > + debtags.d.o maintainers needed > + lintian contributors needed > + Experimental manual migration pseudo-excuses > + CPU instruction selection documentation > > anacron might be disabled if 2.3-33 was ever installed > -- > > If you run Debian testing/unstable and ever installed anacron 2.3-33 on > a systemd based system, then anacron will no longer be enabled and the > daily/weekly/monthly cron jobs will not be run until it is. > > Since not all cron jobs have migrated to systemd timers, Debian > testing/unstable systems with systemd and anacron may be missing > some essential cron jobs, such as making backups of aptitude state. > > To see if a system is affected you can use these commands: > > zgrep -i anacron.*2.3-33 /var/log/apt/history.log* > systemctl status anacron.service anacron.timer > > To re-enable anacron you can use these commands: > > sudo systemctl enable anacron.service anacron.timer > sudo systemctl start anacron.service anacron.timer > > More details of this problem are available in these bugs: > > https://bugs.debian.org/1019554 > https://bugs.debian.org/1020966 > https://bugs.debian.org/1021496 > > -- Paul Wise > > riscv64 porterbox > - > > There is now a porterbox for riscv64[1] available for Debian contributors > to use[2] for porting packages to RISC-V. > > Thanks to SiFive for providing the HiFive Unmatched board, OSUOSL for > assembling and hosting the hardware and Aurélien Jarno and Manuel A. > Fernandez Montecelo for installing/setting up/admining the porterbox. > > -- Paul Wise > > [1] https://blog.aurel32.net/riscv64-porterbox.html > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/PorterBoxHowToUse > > porterbox DNS alias maintainers needed > -- > > Jakub Wilk has mentioned[3] that the DNS aliases to Debian porterboxes are > now unmaintained and in need of new maintainers. > > -- Paul Wise > > [3] > https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20221107213046.atgukd2iogsay...@jwilk.net > > debtags.d.o maintainers needed > -- > > Enrico Zini has announced debtags.d.o[4] is in need of new maintainers > and will be shut down if none are forthcoming. > > -- Paul Wise > > [4] > https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20221019132043.d4c4liyt6s6qe...@enricozini.org > > lintian contributors needed > --- > > The primary lintian contributors have stopped[5] working[6] on it. Axel > Beckert has stepped up[7] to provide maintenance work, but requests help > adding new tags, performance tuning and other important work. > > If you are interested in working on it, please join the lintian group on > salsa[8] (DD will be accepted instantly, non-DD should show some > contributions first, e.g. via Merge Requests), add yourself to the > lintian team wiki page[9], join the debian-lint-maint[10] mailing list, > and review the bugs filed against lintian[11], issues on salsa[12] and > merge requests on salsa (1[13] 2[14]). > > -- Paul Wise + Axel Beckert > > [5] > https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/5e4d0e28-a3f4-4302-8364-5afd93d8a...@www.fastmail.com > [6] > https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/cafhyt550_6hc-2srjqyv0z9kgpwulpgnnxvoonpohp3r+pa...@mail.gmail.com > [7] https://bugs.debian.org/1012289 > [8] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian > [9] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Lintian > [10] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lint-maint/ > [11] https://bugs.debian.org/src:lintian > [12] https://salsa.debian.org/groups/lintian/-/issues > [13] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests > [14] https://salsa.debian.org/groups/lintian/-/merge_requests > > Experimental manual migration pseudo-excuses > > > The experimental pseudo-excuses[15] (warning: large file) help > maintainers discover problems that will be introduced when they manually > migrate packages from experimental to unstable. These excuses are now > imported into the Debian QA excuses page[16], which allows checking > individual package excuses for testing migration and now also > pseudo-excuses for experimental manual migration. This is much more > convenient than loading the very large excuses and pseudo-excuses HTML > files. Help[17] is needed[18] from Python/Django developers to integrate > the pseudo-excuses into the Debian Package Tracker[19], see the guide to > contributing[20] if you would like to help. > > [15] https://release.debian.org/britney/pseudo-excuses-experimental.html > [16] http
Bug#1024764: ITP: python-hdf5plugin -- Python library to make HDF5 compression filters usable from h5py
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Enrico Zini X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-hdf5plugin Version : 3.3.1 Upstream Author : "ESRF - Data Analysis Unit" * URL : https://github.com/silx-kit/hdf5plugin * License : MIT Programming Lang: C/Python Description : Python library to make HDF5 compression filters usable from h5py hdf5plugin provides HDF5 compression filters (namely: blosc, bitshuffle, lz4, FCIDECOMP, ZFP, zstd) and makes them usable from h5py. I am going to maintain this in the Debian Science Team group.
