Work-needing packages report for Aug 22, 2025
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: 1170 (new: 3)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 139 (new: 12)
Total number of packages requested help for: 52 (new: 0)
Please refer to https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
colplot (#1111493), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: Utility to plot performance data from collectl
Installations reported by Popcon: 55
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1111493
crash (#1111489), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: kernel debugging utility, allowing gdb like syntax
Installations reported by Popcon: 432
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1111489
judy (#1111491), orphaned 3 days ago
Description: C library for creating and accessing dynamic arrays
Reverse Depends: gtkwave libjudy-dev libtraildb0
mariadb-plugin-oqgraph miredo pcaputils stress-ng traildb-cli
validns zmap
Installations reported by Popcon: 4273
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1111491
1167 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.
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The following packages have been given up for adoption:
accel-config (#1111167), offered 6 days ago
Description: utility for configuring the DSA subsystem
Reverse Depends: accel-config accel-config-test libaccel-config-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1111167
intel-cmt-cat (#1111168), offered 6 days ago
Description: Intel cache monitoring and allocation technology config
tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 867
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1111168
intel-ipsec-mb (#1111169), offered 6 days ago
Description: Development files for Intel(R) Multi-Buffer Crypto for
IPSec library
Reverse Depends: libdpdk-dev libipsec-mb-dev librte-common-qat25
librte-crypto-ipsec-mb25 qatengine stress-ng
Installations reported by Popcon: 577
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1111169
intel-lpmd (#1111170), offered 6 days ago
Description: Intel Low Power Model Daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1111170
ipp-crypto (#1111171), offered 6 days ago
Description: Intel® IPP Cryptography Multi-buffer development files
Reverse Depends: libcrypto-mb-dev libippcp-dev qatengine
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1111171
libisal (#1111176), offered 6 days ago
Description: Intel(R) Intelligent Storage Acceleration Library -
tools
Reverse Depends: fastp isal libdpdk-dev libisal-dev
librte-compress-isal25 librte-compress-octeontx25 libxrdcl3t64
libxrdec1t64 python3-isal
Installations reported by Popcon: 273
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1111176
numatop (#1111177), offered 6 days ago
Description: NUMA runtime observation tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 106
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1111177
qatengine (#1111178), offered 6 days ago
Description: Intel® QuickAssist Technology OpenSSL* Engine
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1111178
qatlib (#1111179), offered 6 days ago
Description: Development files for Intel QuickAssist user space
library
Reverse Depends: libqat-dev libqat4 libqatzip3 libusdm-dev qatengine
qatlib-examples qatzip
Installations reported by Popcon: 9
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1111179
qatzip (#1111186), offered 6 days ago
Description: Compression user-space tool for Intel® QuickAssist
Technology
Reverse Depends: libqatzip-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 7
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1111186
thermald (#1111187), offered 6 days ago
Description: Thermal monitoring and controlling daemon
Installations reported by Popcon: 762
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1111187
thunderbolt-tools (#1111188), offered 6 days ago
Description: Intel Thunderbolt userspace components
Installations reported by Popcon: 561
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1111188
127 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage for a complete list.
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For the following packages help is requested:
apache2 (#910917), requested 2504 days ago
Description: Apache HTTP Server
Reverse Depends: apache2 apache2-ssl-dev apache2-suexec-custom
apache2-suexec-pristine backuppc courier-webadmin cvsweb debbugs-web
debian-edu-router-deployserver
debian-edu-router-plugin.content-filter (111 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 118455
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/910917
apparmor (#1006872), requested 1263 days ago
Description: user-space parser utility for AppArmor
Reverse Depends: apparmor-notify apparmor-profiles
apparmor-profiles-extra apparmor-utils dbus-broker dbus-daemon
dbus-tests debian-cloud-images-packages dovecot-core firejail (31
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 253613
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1006872
autopkgtest (#846328), requested 3186 days ago
Description: automatic as-installed testing for Debian packages
Reverse Depends: debci-worker rocm-podman-support rocm-qemu-support
sbuild-qemu
Installations reported by Popcon: 1348
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/846328
balsa (#642906), requested 5079 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa
Installations reported by Popcon: 333
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/642906
cargo (#860116), requested 3054 days ago
Description: Rust package manager
Reverse Depends: cargo-debstatus dh-cargo dh-rust
python3-setuptools-rust rust-all
Installations reported by Popcon: 4286
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/860116
casparcg-server (#1071139), requested 464 days ago
Description: layered real-time video compositor to multiple outputs
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1071139
chromium (#1016047), requested 1122 days ago
Description: web browser
Reverse Depends: budgie-desktop-environment chromium chromium-driver
chromium-headless-shell chromium-l10n chromium-shell qunit-selenium
x2gothinclient-minidesktop
Installations reported by Popcon: 25800
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1016047
corectrl (#1093892), requested 210 days ago
Description: Control your computer hardware using application
profiles
Installations reported by Popcon: 296
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1093892
cryfs (#1093400), requested 215 days ago
Description: encrypt your files and store them in the cloud (popcon
20k)
Reverse Depends: plasma-vault
Installations reported by Popcon: 27971
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1093400
cyrus-imapd (#921717), requested 2386 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: 311
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/921717
dee (#831388), requested 3324 days ago
Description: model to synchronize multiple 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: 70032
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/831388
developers-reference (#759995), requested 4009 days ago
Description: guidelines and information for Debian developers
Installations reported by Popcon: 1272
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/759995
dh-make-elpa (#942642), requested 2133 days ago
Description: helper for creating Debian packages from ELPA packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 42
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/942642
docker.io (#908868), requested 2532 days ago
Description: Linux container runtime
Reverse Depends: debcraft distrobox docker-clean due
golang-github-awslabs-soci-snapshotter-dev
golang-github-containerd-nydus-snapshotter-dev
golang-github-containers-buildah-dev
golang-github-containers-common-dev
golang-github-containers-image-dev
golang-github-crowdsecurity-crowdsec-dev (9 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 12106
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/908868
ecere-sdk (#1051593), requested 711 days ago
Description: Ecere cross-platform SDK
Reverse Depends: ecere-dev ecere-sdk libecc0 libecereaudio0 libeda0
libedasqlite0
Installations reported by Popcon: 2
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1051593
ejabberd (#1072724), requested 440 days ago
Description: extensible realtime platform (XMPP server + MQTT broker
+ SIP service)
Reverse Depends: ejabberd-contrib ejabberd-mod-cron
ejabberd-mod-default-contacts ejabberd-mod-default-rooms
ejabberd-mod-deny-omemo ejabberd-mod-filter ejabberd-mod-grafite
ejabberd-mod-irc ejabberd-mod-isolation ejabberd-mod-log-chat (13
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 293
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1072724
frama-c (#907946), requested 2543 days ago
Description: Platform dedicated to the analysis of source code
written in C
Installations reported by Popcon: 16
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/907946
freedombox (#940881), requested 2161 days ago
Description: debian pure blend, user-friendly, privacy-oriented home
server
Reverse Depends: fbx-all
Installations reported by Popcon: 873
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/940881
freeradius (#933376), requested 2215 days ago
Description: high-performance and highly configurable RADIUS server
Reverse Depends: freeradius freeradius-config freeradius-dhcp
freeradius-iodbc freeradius-krb5 freeradius-ldap
freeradius-memcached freeradius-mysql freeradius-postgresql
freeradius-python3 (5 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1757
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/933376
gkrellm-radio (#1003222), requested 1323 days ago
Description: FM radio tuner for GKrellM
Installations reported by Popcon: 31
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1003222
gnome-shell-extension-caffeine (#891457), requested 2734 days ago
Description: GNOME Shell extension to keep your computer awake
Installations reported by Popcon: 617
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/891457
gnucash (#910059), requested 2515 days ago
Description: personal and small-business financial-accounting
software
Reverse Depends: gnucash
Installations reported by Popcon: 2159
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/910059
heimdal (#849325), requested 3161 days ago
Description: Heimdal Kerberos
Reverse Depends: heimdal-clients heimdal-dev heimdal-kcm heimdal-kdc
heimdal-multidev heimdal-servers libafsauthent2t64 libafsrpc2t64
libasn1-8t64-heimdal libgssapi3t64-heimdal (21 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1063
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/849325
ifupdown (#1101365), requested 148 days ago
Description: high level tools to configure network interfaces
Reverse Depends: ceni debian-edu-router-config ifenslave
octavia-agent overlay-boot pppoeconf ucarp
Installations reported by Popcon: 256129
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1101365
ifupdown-ng-compat (#1089696), requested 253 days ago
Description: Incompatibilities with classic ifupdown remain
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1089696
imagemagick (#1017366), requested 1103 days ago
Description: image manipulation programs -- binaries
Reverse Depends: advi-examples afterstep album ascd asymptote
auto-multiple-choice-common beads caja-image-converter cct
converseen (119 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 79742
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1017366
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 6025 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 1810
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/516501
libmng (#831389), requested 3324 days ago
Description: Multiple-image Network Graphics library
Reverse Depends: libcegui-mk2-dev libdevil1c2 libmng-dev
libsynfig0t64 libxine2-misc-plugins mencoder mplayer mplayer-gui
qt5-image-formats-plugins qt6-image-formats-plugins
Installations reported by Popcon: 1805
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/831389
libteam (#743212), requested 4161 days ago
Description: library for controlling team network device
Reverse Depends: ladvd libteam-dev libteam-utils network-manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 125688
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/743212
lintian (#1012289), requested 1175 days ago
Description: Debian package checker
Reverse Depends: debian-package-scripts jenkins-debian-glue-buildenv
libconfig-model-dpkg-perl pkg-perl-tools progress-linux-maintainers
Installations reported by Popcon: 26768
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1012289
mailman3 (#998223), requested 1389 days ago
Description: Mailing list management system
Reverse Depends: mailman3-full python3-mailman-hyperkitty
Installations reported by Popcon: 168
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/998223
multipath-tools (#1083104), requested 324 days ago
Description: maintain multipath block device access
Reverse Depends: fence-agents-mpath freedom-maker
ganeti-instance-debootstrap kiwi-dracut-oem-dump
kiwi-systemdeps-filesystems libblockdev-mpath3 libmpathcmd-dev
libmpathpersist-dev libmpathpersist0 libmpathvalid-dev (10 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8386
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1083104
nilfs-tools (#723599), requested 4356 days ago
Description: Continuous Snapshotting Log-structured Filesystem
Reverse Depends: libguestfs-nilfs
Installations reported by Popcon: 1082
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/723599
nn (#470187), requested 6374 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 58
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/470187
open-build-service (#984462), requested 1632 days ago
Reverse Depends: obs-server
Installations reported by Popcon: 86
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/984462
openldap (#512360), requested 6057 days ago
Description: OpenLDAP server, libraries, and utilities
Reverse Depends: 389-ds-base 389-ds-base-dev 389-ds-base-libs adcli
alpine anope apache2-bin asterisk-modules audispd-plugins
autofs-ldap (138 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 246840
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/512360
opensnitch (#1070855), requested 468 days ago
Description: GNU/Linux interactive application firewall
Installations reported by Popcon: 231
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1070855
openssl (#332498), requested 7259 days ago
Description: Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
cryptographic tools
Reverse Depends: 389-ds-base 389-ds-base-libs accel-config-test
acme-tiny afflib-tools aircrack-ng alpine alsa-scarlett-gui
amanda-common android-file-transfer (1158 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 261647
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/332498
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 4809 days ago
Description: libraries of openvanilla input method
Reverse Depends: openvanilla-imgeneric-data-all
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-ja openvanilla-imgeneric-data-ko
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-th openvanilla-imgeneric-data-vi
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-zh-cn openvanilla-imgeneric-data-zh-hk
openvanilla-imgeneric-data-zh-tw ucimf-openvanilla
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/678401
pgpool2 (#772047), requested 3913 days ago
Description: connection pool server and replication proxy for
PostgreSQL
Reverse Depends: libpgpool-dev pgpool2 postgresql-17-pgpool2
Installations reported by Popcon: 59
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/772047
pgq (#945468), requested 2096 days ago
Description: Queuing for PostgreSQL
Reverse Depends: postgresql-17-pgq-node
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/945468
pgq-node (#992935), requested 2096 days ago
Description: Queuing for PostgreSQL
Reverse Depends: postgresql-17-londiste-sql
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/992935
pulseaudio (#743303), requested 4160 days ago
Description: PulseAudio sound server
Reverse Depends: aegisub ardour ares ascii-patrol audacious-plugins
audiotools audmes ayatana-indicator-sound baresip-x11 blender (214
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 154079
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/743303
sbcl (#1068094), requested 509 days ago
Description: Common Lisp compiler and development system
Reverse Depends: buildapp cl-quicklisp roslisp
Installations reported by Popcon: 1200
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1068094
singularity-container (#1068578), requested 501 days ago
Description: container platform focused on supporting "Mobility of
Compute"
Installations reported by Popcon: 153
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1068578
slony1-2 (#1014403), requested 1143 days ago
Description: replication system for PostgreSQL
Installations reported by Popcon: 23
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1014403
softether-vpn (#1030780), requested 926 days ago
Description: multiprotocol VPN program
Reverse Depends: softether-vpnbridge softether-vpnclient
softether-vpncmd softether-vpnserver
Installations reported by Popcon: 93
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1030780
spamassassin (#676314), requested 4824 days ago
Description: Perl-based spam filter using text analysis
Reverse Depends: claws-mail-spamassassin
evolution-plugin-spamassassin fuzzyocr isbg
roundcube-plugin-sauserprefs sa-compile sa-exim spamass-milter
spamassassin-heatu spamd (1 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 5325
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/676314
swi-prolog (#896458), requested 2679 days ago
Description: ISO/Edinburgh-style Prolog interpreter
Reverse Depends: elpa-ediprolog libppl-swi swi-prolog swi-prolog-bdb
swi-prolog-core-packages swi-prolog-doc swi-prolog-full
swi-prolog-java swi-prolog-nox swi-prolog-odbc (2 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 1128
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/896458
tbsync (#1093223), requested 217 days ago
Description: Thunderbird/Lightning Add-On to support MS Exchange
Calendar etc.
Reverse Depends: webext-dav4tbsync webext-eas4tbsync
Installations reported by Popcon: 363
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1093223
torbrowser-launcher (#796295), requested 3653 days ago
Description: helps download, update and run the Tor Browser Bundle
Installations reported by Popcon: 3208
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/796295
xloadimage (#919265), requested 2411 days ago
Description: Graphics file viewer under X11
Installations reported by Popcon: 895
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/919265
See https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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