Work-needing packages report for Jun 12, 2026

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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: 1050 (new: 9)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 121 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requested help for: 46 (new: 0)

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

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The following packages have been orphaned:

   dmg2img (#1138915), orphaned 6 days ago
     Description: Tool for converting compressed dmg files to hfsplus
       images
     Installations reported by Popcon: 835
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1138915

   gts (#1138910), orphaned 6 days ago
     Description: library to deal with 3D computational surface meshes
     Reverse Depends: gerris gfsview-batch graphviz-tools libgfs-1.3-2t64
       libgfs-dev libgfsgl0t64 libgts-bin libgts-dev
       libgvplugin-neato-layout8 libmia-2.4-4 (3 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 63909
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1138910

   hollywood (#1138924), orphaned 6 days ago
     Description: fill your console with Hollywood melodrama technobabble
     Installations reported by Popcon: 686
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1138924

   ipv6pref (#1138928), orphaned 6 days ago
     Description: utility to set IPv6 address preferences
     Installations reported by Popcon: 22
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1138928

   mysql-sandbox (#1138909), orphaned 6 days ago
     Description: Install and set up one or more MySQL server instances
       easily
     Installations reported by Popcon: 78
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1138909

   opencryptoki (#1138982), orphaned 6 days ago
     Description: PKCS#11 implementation (daemon)
     Reverse Depends: libopencryptoki-dev opencryptoki tpm-tools-pkcs11
     Installations reported by Popcon: 71
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1138982

   postfix-policyd-spf-perl (#1138930), orphaned 6 days ago
     Description: Simple Postfix policy server for RFC 4408/7208 SPF
       checking
     Installations reported by Popcon: 382
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1138930

   stenc (#1138914), orphaned 6 days ago
     Description: SCSI Tape Encryption Manager
     Installations reported by Popcon: 14
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1138914

   stepic (#1138931), orphaned 6 days ago
     Description: Python 3 Steganography in Images
     Reverse Depends: forensics-extra
     Installations reported by Popcon: 314
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1138931

1041 older packages have been omitted from this listing, see
https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned for a complete list.

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No new packages have been given up for adoption, but a total of 121 packages
are awaiting adoption.  See https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/rfa_bypackage
for a complete list.

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For the following packages help is requested:

   apparmor (#1006872), requested 1557 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 (33
       more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 272505
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1006872

   autopkgtest (#846328), requested 3480 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: 1234
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/846328

   balsa (#642906), requested 5373 days ago
     Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
     Reverse Depends: balsa
     Installations reported by Popcon: 146
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/642906

   cargo (#860116), requested 3348 days ago
     Description: Rust package manager
     Reverse Depends: cargo-audit cargo-debstatus dh-cargo dh-rust
       ingredients python3-setuptools-rust rust-all
     Installations reported by Popcon: 5125
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/860116

   chromium (#1016047), requested 1416 days ago
     Description: web browser
     Reverse Depends: budgie-desktop-environment chromium chromium-driver
       chromium-headless-shell chromium-l10n chromium-shell
       libwww-mechanize-chrome-perl qunit-selenium
       x2gothinclient-minidesktop
     Installations reported by Popcon: 27976
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1016047

   cinnamon (#1114514), requested 278 days ago
     Description: Innovative and comfortable desktop
     Reverse Depends: cinnamon cinnamon-core
     Installations reported by Popcon: 12033
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1114514

   cyrus-imapd (#921717), requested 2680 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: 299
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/921717

   deb-gview (#1129643), requested 99 days ago
     Description: GNOME viewer for .deb package files and contents
     Installations reported by Popcon: 61
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1129643

   dee (#831388), requested 3618 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: 70595
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/831388

   developers-reference (#759995), requested 4303 days ago
     Description: guidelines and information for Debian developers
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1050
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/759995

   dh-make-elpa (#942642), requested 2427 days ago
     Description: helper for creating Debian packages from ELPA packages
     Installations reported by Popcon: 36
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/942642

   docker.io (#908868), requested 2826 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 (10 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 13927
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/908868

   ejabberd (#1072724), requested 734 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: 264
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1072724

   frama-c (#907946), requested 2837 days ago
     Description: Platform dedicated to the analysis of source code
       written in C
     Installations reported by Popcon: 9
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/907946

   freedombox (#940881), requested 2455 days ago
     Description: debian pure blend, user-friendly, privacy-oriented home
       server
     Reverse Depends: fbx-all
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1129
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/940881

   freeradius (#933376), requested 2509 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: 1879
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/933376

   gkrellm-radio (#1003222), requested 1617 days ago
     Description: FM radio tuner for GKrellM
     Installations reported by Popcon: 26
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1003222

   gnome-shell-extension-caffeine (#891457), requested 3028 days ago
     Description: GNOME Shell extension to keep your computer awake
     Installations reported by Popcon: 596
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/891457

   gnucash (#910059), requested 2809 days ago
     Description: personal and small-business financial-accounting
       software
     Reverse Depends: gnucash
     Installations reported by Popcon: 2008
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/910059

   heimdal (#849325), requested 3455 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 (20 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1131
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/849325

   ifupdown (#1101365), requested 442 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: 272521
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1101365

   ifupdown-ng-compat (#1089696), requested 547 days ago
     Description: Incompatibilities with classic ifupdown remain
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1089696

   imagemagick (#1017366), requested 1397 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 (121 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 85112
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1017366

   libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 6319 days ago
     Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1405
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/516501

   libmng (#831389), requested 3618 days ago
     Description: Multiple-image Network Graphics library
     Reverse Depends: gimp libmng-dev libsynfig0t64 libxine2-misc-plugins
       mencoder mplayer qt5-image-formats-plugins qt6-image-formats-plugins
     Installations reported by Popcon: 6243
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/831389

   libteam (#743212), requested 4455 days ago
     Description: library for controlling team network device
     Reverse Depends: ladvd libteam-dev libteam-utils
       network-manager-team
     Installations reported by Popcon: 127686
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/743212

   mailman3 (#998223), requested 1683 days ago
     Description: Mailing list management system
     Reverse Depends: mailman3-full python3-mailman-hyperkitty
     Installations reported by Popcon: 171
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/998223

   multipath-tools (#1083104), requested 618 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: 7303
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1083104

   nilfs-tools (#723599), requested 4650 days ago
     Description: Continuous Snapshotting Log-structured Filesystem
     Reverse Depends: libguestfs-nilfs
     Installations reported by Popcon: 875
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/723599

   nn (#470187), requested 6668 days ago
     Description: Heavy-duty USENET news reader (curses-based client)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 47
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/470187

   open-build-service (#984462), requested 1926 days ago
     Reverse Depends: obs-server
     Installations reported by Popcon: 52
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/984462

   openldap (#512360), requested 6351 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 (132 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 263357
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/512360

   opensnitch (#1070855), requested 762 days ago
     Description: GNU/Linux interactive application firewall
     Installations reported by Popcon: 253
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1070855

   openssl (#332498), requested 7553 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-redirect acme-tiny afflib-tools aircrack-ng alpine
       alsa-scarlett-gui amanda-common (1219 more omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 279201
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/332498

   openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 5103 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: 2
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/678401

   pgpool2 (#772047), requested 4207 days ago
     Description: connection pool server and replication proxy for
       PostgreSQL
     Reverse Depends: libpgpool-dev pgpool2 postgresql-18-pgpool2
     Installations reported by Popcon: 43
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/772047

   pulseaudio (#743303), requested 4454 days ago
     Description: PulseAudio sound server
     Reverse Depends: aegisub ardour ares ascii-patrol audacious-plugins
       audmes ayatana-indicator-sound baresip-x11 blender blueman (217 more
       omitted)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 161870
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/743303

   qcontrol (#1122867), requested 180 days ago
     Installations reported by Popcon: 84
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1122867

   riseup-vpn (#1117550), requested 247 days ago
     Description: Easy, fast, and secure VPN service from riseup.net
     Installations reported by Popcon: 397
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1117550

   sbcl (#1068094), requested 803 days ago
     Description: Common Lisp compiler and development system
     Reverse Depends: buildapp cl-quicklisp roslisp
     Installations reported by Popcon: 939
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1068094

   spamassassin (#676314), requested 5118 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: 4758
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/676314

   swi-prolog (#896458), requested 2973 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: 926
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/896458

   tbsync (#1093223), requested 511 days ago
     Description: Thunderbird/Lightning Add-On to support MS Exchange
       Calendar etc.
     Reverse Depends: webext-eas4tbsync
     Installations reported by Popcon: 198
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1093223

   torbrowser-launcher (#796295), requested 3947 days ago
     Description: helps download, update and run the Tor Browser Bundle
     Installations reported by Popcon: 1142
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/796295

   torrus (#1117225), requested 249 days ago
     Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases (common
       files)
     Installations reported by Popcon: 7
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1117225

   xloadimage (#919265), requested 2705 days ago
     Description: Graphics file viewer under X11
     Installations reported by Popcon: 672
     Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/919265

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