Work-needing packages report for Jan 31, 2020

[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: 1237 (new: 0)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 238 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 64 (new: 2)

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



No new packages have been orphaned, but a total of 1237 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 238 packages
are awaiting adoption.  See https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage
for a complete list.



For the following packages help is requested:

[NEW] mawk (#949781), requested 6 days ago
 Description: a pattern scanning and text processing language
 Reverse Depends: auditd backupninja check doris geda-utils
   i3lock-fancy keyringer libpomp2-dev linuxdoc-tools mgdiff (4 more
   omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 201571
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/949781

[NEW] ring (#950198), requested today
 Description: Secure and distributed voice, video and chat platform
 Reverse Depends: jami ring ring-daemon
 Installations reported by Popcon: 360
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/950198

   apache2 (#910917), requested 474 days ago
 Description: Apache HTTP Server
 Reverse Depends: apache2 apache2-ssl-dev apache2-suexec-custom
   apache2-suexec-pristine backuppc courier-webadmin cvsweb debbugs-web
   dms-wsgi doc-central (139 more omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 96491
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/910917

   autopkgtest (#846328), requested 1156 days ago
 Description: automatic as-installed testing for Debian packages
 Reverse Depends: debci-worker
 Installations reported by Popcon: 1178
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/846328

   balsa (#642906), requested 3049 days ago
 Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
 Installations reported by Popcon: 706
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/642906

   broadcom-sta (#886599), requested 752 days ago (non-free)
 Description: Broadcom STA Wireless driver (non-free)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 1730
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/886599

   cargo (#860116), requested 1024 days ago
 Description: Rust package manager
 Reverse Depends: dh-cargo
 Installations reported by Popcon: 1398
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/860116

   cyrus-imapd (#921717), requested 356 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: 409
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/921717

   cyrus-sasl2 (#799864), requested 1590 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 (78 more omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 200810
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/799864

   dee (#831388), requested 1294 days ago
 Description: model to synchronize mutiple instances over DBus
 Reverse Depends: dee-tools gir1.2-dee-1.0 libdee-dev zeitgeist-core
 Installations reported by Popcon: 37089
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/831388

   developers-reference (#759995), requested 1979 days ago
 Description: guidelines and information for Debian developers
 Installations reported by Popcon: 7525
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/759995

   devscripts (#800413), requested 1584 days ago
 Description: scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer
   easier
 Reverse Depends: apt-build apt-listdifferences aptfs arriero
   brz-debian customdeb debci debian-builder debmake debpear (31 more
   omitted)
 Installations reported by Popcon: 11873
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/800413

   docker.io (#908868), requested 502 days ago
 Description: Linux container runtime
 Reverse Depends: golang-github-containers-buildah-dev
   golang-github-containers-image-dev
   golang-github-fsouza-go-dockerclient-dev
   golang-github-google-cadvisor-dev
   golang-github-openshift-imagebuilder-dev
   golang-github-samalba-dockerclient-dev kubernetes-node subuser
   whalebuilder
 Installations reported by Popcon: 2832
 Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/908868

   ed (#886643), requested 752 days ago

Re: New fast porterbox for powerpc and ppc64 available

[Jonathan Dowland]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 05:50:01PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
wrote:
Thanks to a very generous donation by IBM we have now a new porterbox 
for powerpc and ppc64 (big-endian) available [1].


Am I right in thinking you mean powerpc as in the 32 bit BE architecture
dropped as an official port after jessie, re-activated as an unofficial
one in 2018, suitable for use on "new world" Apple Macs e.g. some Mac
Minis etc.?

Great news if so, thanks!

--

Jonathan Dowland

Bug#950260: ITP: lprint -- lprint - A Label Printer Application

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud 

  Package name: lprint
  Version : 1.0~b2
  Upstream Author : Michael R Sweet 
  URL : https://www.msweet.org/lprint/ 
  License : Apache-2.0-with-GPL-LGPL-Exception
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : lprint - A Label Printer Application

 LPrint implements printing for a variety of common label and receipt printers
 connected via network or USB. Features include:
 .
  * A single executable handles spooling, status, and server functionality
  * Multiple printer support
  * Each printer implements an IPP Everywhere™ print service and is compatible
with the driverless printing support in iOS, macOS, and Linux clients
  * Each printer can support options such as label modes, tear-off offsets,
media tracking, media top offset, print darkness, resolution, roll
selection, and speed
  * Each printer can print “raw”, Apple/PWG Raster, and/or PNG files
  * Each printer automatically recovers from out-of-media, power loss, and
disconnected/bad cable issues


This will be maintained by the Debian Printing Team.

Bug#950215: ITP: gvm-tools -- Remote control a Greenbone Vulnerability Manager

[Sophie Brun]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Sophie Brun 

* Package name: gvm-tools
  Version : 2.0.0
  Upstream Author : Greenbone Networks GmbH
* URL : https://github.com/greenbone/gvm-tools
* License : GPL-3+
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description : Remote control a Greenbone Vulnerability Manager

The Greenbone Vulnerability Management Tools or gvm-tools in short are a
collection of tools that help with remote controlling a Greenbone Security
Manager (GSM) appliance and its underlying Greenbone Vulnerability Manager
(GVM). The tools essentially aid accessing the communication protocols GMP
(Greenbone Management Protocol) and OSP (Open Scanner Protocol).

This module is comprised of interactive and non-interactive clients. The
programming language Python is supported directly for interactive
scripting. But it is also possible to issue remote GMP/OSP commands
without programming in Python.

I plan to maintain this package within the pkg-security team with the
other openvas/ greenbone packages.