Work-needing packages report for Dec 19, 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: 1139 (new: 24)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 135 (new: 2)
Total number of packages requested help for: 49 (new: 1)
Please refer to https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for more information.
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The following packages have been orphaned:
amispammer (#1123034), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Powerful Mail Server checker on blacklists
Installations reported by Popcon: 17
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123034
binfmtc (#1123053), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Execute C program as script
Installations reported by Popcon: 26
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123053
bitlbee (#1123072), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: IRC to other chat networks gateway (default version)
Reverse Depends: bitlbee bitlbee-dev bitlbee-libpurple
bitlbee-plugin-facebook bitlbee-plugin-mastodon bitlbee-plugin-otr
Installations reported by Popcon: 153
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123072
brag (#1123075), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Downloads and assembles multipart Usenet binaries
Installations reported by Popcon: 26
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123075
cfi (#1123076), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Copyright does not exist, book about hacker culture
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123076
cl-xlunit (#1123078), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Common Lisp eXtreme Lisp Unit Testing Package
Installations reported by Popcon: 3
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123078
cl-xptest (#1123482), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Extreme programming test suite for Common Lisp package
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123482
cntlm (#1123484), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: Fast NTLM authentication proxy with tunneling
Installations reported by Popcon: 73
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123484
configure-debian (#1123487), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: central configuration program for packages using
debconf
Installations reported by Popcon: 328
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123487
crystalcursors (#1123488), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: X11 mouse theme with the crystal look&feel
Installations reported by Popcon: 251
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123488
d52 (#1123516), orphaned yesterday
Description: Disassembler for 8052, 8048/8041, and Z80/8080/8085
code
Installations reported by Popcon: 27
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123516
dfu-programmer (#1123489), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: device firmware update (DFU) based USB programmer for
Atmel chips
Installations reported by Popcon: 585
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123489
dict-jargon (#1123492), orphaned 2 days ago
Description: dict package for The Jargon Lexicon
Installations reported by Popcon: 375
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123492
display-dhammapada (#1123519), orphaned yesterday
Description: fortune-like collection of Buddhist sayings
Installations reported by Popcon: 25
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123519
gnome-colors (#1123546), orphaned yesterday
Description: set of GNOME icon themes
Reverse Depends: gnome-brave-icon-theme gnome-colors
gnome-dust-icon-theme gnome-human-icon-theme
gnome-illustrious-icon-theme gnome-noble-icon-theme
gnome-wine-icon-theme gnome-wise-icon-theme pyhoca-gui
shiki-brave-theme (7 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 8022
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123546
gross (#1123547), orphaned yesterday
Description: fast and efficient greylist server with DNSBL support
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123547
icheck (#1123557), orphaned yesterday
Description: C interface ABI/API checker
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123557
iitalian (#1123558), orphaned yesterday
Description: Italian dictionary for ispell
Reverse Depends: parl-desktop-eu
Installations reported by Popcon: 6244
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123558
ips (#1123559), orphaned yesterday
Description: Intelligent process status
Installations reported by Popcon: 41
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123559
libapache-mod-removeip (#1123600), orphaned today
Description: Module to remove IP from apache2's logs
Installations reported by Popcon: 18
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123600
libasyncns (#1123614), orphaned today
Description: Asynchronous name service query library development
files
Reverse Depends: libasyncns-dev libloudmouth1-0 libpulse0
Installations reported by Popcon: 160244
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123614
libprintsys (#1123621), orphaned today
Description: printcap parser, helper for gnulpr's printfilters
Reverse Depends: libprintsys-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 88
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123621
logtop (#1123616), orphaned today
Description: real time log line rate analyzer
Installations reported by Popcon: 130
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123616
lx-gdb (#1123618), orphaned today
Description: Dump and load databases from HP 100LX/200LX palmtops
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1123618
1115 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:
dwarves (#1122991), offered 3 days ago
Description: set of advanced DWARF utilities
Reverse Depends: dwarves kpatch-build linux-kbuild-6.17.12+deb14
Installations reported by Popcon: 21062
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1122991
sqlitebrowser (#1122851), offered 5 days ago
Description: GUI editor for SQLite databases
Reverse Depends: forensics-extra-gui
Installations reported by Popcon: 5380
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1122851
133 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:
[NEW] qcontrol (#1122867), requested 5 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 85
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1122867
apparmor (#1006872), requested 1382 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: 264337
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1006872
autopkgtest (#846328), requested 3305 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: 1370
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/846328
balsa (#642906), requested 5198 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa
Installations reported by Popcon: 202
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/642906
cargo (#860116), requested 3173 days ago
Description: Rust package manager
Reverse Depends: cargo-debstatus dh-cargo dh-rust
python3-setuptools-rust rust-all
Installations reported by Popcon: 4728
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/860116
chromium (#1016047), requested 1241 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: 28171
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1016047
cinnamon (#1114514), requested 103 days ago
Description: Innovative and comfortable desktop
Reverse Depends: cinnamon cinnamon-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 12696
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1114514
cyrus-imapd (#921717), requested 2505 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: 310
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/921717
dee (#831388), requested 3443 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: 71678
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/831388
developers-reference (#759995), requested 4128 days ago
Description: guidelines and information for Debian developers
Installations reported by Popcon: 1221
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/759995
dh-make-elpa (#942642), requested 2252 days ago
Description: helper for creating Debian packages from ELPA packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 43
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/942642
docker.io (#908868), requested 2651 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: 12865
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/908868
ecere-sdk (#1051593), requested 830 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 559 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: 294
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1072724
frama-c (#907946), requested 2662 days ago
Description: Platform dedicated to the analysis of source code
written in C
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/907946
freedombox (#940881), requested 2280 days ago
Description: debian pure blend, user-friendly, privacy-oriented home
server
Reverse Depends: fbx-all
Installations reported by Popcon: 1151
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/940881
freeradius (#933376), requested 2334 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: 1829
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/933376
gkrellm-radio (#1003222), requested 1442 days ago
Description: FM radio tuner for GKrellM
Installations reported by Popcon: 34
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1003222
gnome-shell-extension-caffeine (#891457), requested 2853 days ago
Description: GNOME Shell extension to keep your computer awake
Installations reported by Popcon: 657
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/891457
gnucash (#910059), requested 2634 days ago
Description: personal and small-business financial-accounting
software
Reverse Depends: gnucash
Installations reported by Popcon: 2165
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/910059
heimdal (#849325), requested 3280 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: 1124
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/849325
ifupdown (#1101365), requested 267 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: 265907
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1101365
ifupdown-ng-compat (#1089696), requested 372 days ago
Description: Incompatibilities with classic ifupdown remain
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1089696
imagemagick (#1017366), requested 1222 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: 80810
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1017366
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 6144 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 1639
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/516501
libmng (#831389), requested 3443 days ago
Description: Multiple-image Network Graphics library
Reverse Depends: gimp libmng-dev libsynfig0t64 libxine2-misc-plugins
mencoder mplayer mplayer-gui qt5-image-formats-plugins
qt6-image-formats-plugins
Installations reported by Popcon: 3294
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/831389
libteam (#743212), requested 4280 days ago
Description: library for controlling team network device
Reverse Depends: ladvd libteam-dev libteam-utils network-manager
Installations reported by Popcon: 131595
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/743212
lintian (#1012289), requested 1294 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: 26005
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1012289
mailman3 (#998223), requested 1508 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 443 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: 8093
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1083104
nilfs-tools (#723599), requested 4475 days ago
Description: Continuous Snapshotting Log-structured Filesystem
Reverse Depends: libguestfs-nilfs
Installations reported by Popcon: 1029
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/723599
nn (#470187), requested 6493 days ago
Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
Installations reported by Popcon: 54
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/470187
open-build-service (#984462), requested 1751 days ago
Reverse Depends: obs-server
Installations reported by Popcon: 75
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/984462
openldap (#512360), requested 6176 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 (137 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 255873
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/512360
opensnitch (#1070855), requested 587 days ago
Description: GNU/Linux interactive application firewall
Installations reported by Popcon: 234
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1070855
openssl (#332498), requested 7378 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 (1168 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 271978
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/332498
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 4928 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: 6
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/678401
pgpool2 (#772047), requested 4032 days ago
Description: connection pool server and replication proxy for
PostgreSQL
Reverse Depends: libpgpool-dev pgpool2 postgresql-18-pgpool2
Installations reported by Popcon: 70
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/772047
pulseaudio (#743303), requested 4279 days ago
Description: PulseAudio sound server
Reverse Depends: aegisub ardour ares ascii-patrol audacious-plugins
audiotools audmes ayatana-indicator-sound baresip-x11 blender (216
more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 160145
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/743303
riseup-vpn (#1117550), requested 72 days ago
Description: Easy, fast, and secure VPN service from riseup.net
Installations reported by Popcon: 416
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1117550
sbcl (#1068094), requested 628 days ago
Description: Common Lisp compiler and development system
Reverse Depends: buildapp cl-quicklisp roslisp
Installations reported by Popcon: 1086
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1068094
singularity-container (#1068578), requested 620 days ago
Description: container platform focused on supporting "Mobility of
Compute"
Installations reported by Popcon: 138
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1068578
softether-vpn (#1030780), requested 1045 days ago
Description: multiprotocol VPN program
Reverse Depends: softether-vpnbridge softether-vpnclient
softether-vpncmd softether-vpnserver
Installations reported by Popcon: 90
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1030780
spamassassin (#676314), requested 4943 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: 5124
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/676314
swi-prolog (#896458), requested 2798 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: 1010
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/896458
tbsync (#1093223), requested 336 days ago
Description: Thunderbird/Lightning Add-On to support MS Exchange
Calendar etc.
Reverse Depends: webext-eas4tbsync
Installations reported by Popcon: 232
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1093223
torbrowser-launcher (#796295), requested 3772 days ago
Description: helps download, update and run the Tor Browser Bundle
Installations reported by Popcon: 3345
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/796295
torrus (#1117225), requested 74 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases (common
files)
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1117225
xloadimage (#919265), requested 2530 days ago
Description: Graphics file viewer under X11
Installations reported by Popcon: 781
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/919265
See https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.
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