Work-needing packages report for Jul 17, 2026
[email protected] Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:25:34 +0000
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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: 1082 (new: 28)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 118 (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:
ascii-draw (#1142231), orphaned today
Description: Create beautiful diagrams and artwork using only ASCII
characters
Installations reported by Popcon: 13
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1142231
bazaar (#1142232), orphaned today
Description: New Flatpak App Store with Adwaita and GTK4
Reverse Depends: bazaar bge-demo libbge-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 28
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1142232
dh-virtualenv (#1141903), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: wrap and build Python packages using virtualenv
Installations reported by Popcon: 92
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1141903
digger (#1142260), orphaned today
Description: Modern and feature-rich DNS lookup tool, a GUI for dig
Installations reported by Popcon: 4
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1142260
dl-distro (#1142233), orphaned today
Description: Bash script for downloading and verifying OS images
Installations reported by Popcon: 5
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1142233
dpkg-awk (#1141936), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Gawk script to parse /var/lib/dpkg/{status,available}
and Packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 169
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1141936
drum-machine (#1142234), orphaned today
Description: application for creating, playing, and managing drum
patterns
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1142234
fizmo-console (#1141913), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Console-based Z-machine interpreter for Infocom/Inform
games
Installations reported by Popcon: 39
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1141913
fizmo-ncursesw (#1141914), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Ncurses-based Z-machine interpreter for Infocom/Inform
games
Installations reported by Popcon: 40
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1141914
fizmo-sdl2 (#1141915), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: SDL2-based Z-machine interpreter for Infocom/Inform
games
Installations reported by Popcon: 67
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1141915
fluid-soundfont (#1141902), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Fluid (R3) General MIDI SoundFont (GM)
Reverse Depends: kodi-audiodecoder-fluidsynth pianobooster
planetblupi-music-midi tuxguitar vlc-plugin-fluidsynth
Installations reported by Popcon: 9766
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1141902
fvs (#1142236), orphaned today
Description: File Versioning System
Installations reported by Popcon: 2
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1142236
gaphor (#1142237), orphaned today
Description: Simple GUI UML and SysML modeling tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1142237
gpu-screen-recorder (#1142238), orphaned today
Description: Shadowplay-like screen recorder (cli)
Reverse Depends: gpu-screen-recorder-mod gpu-screen-recorder-scripts
gpu-screen-recorder-service
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1142238
gpu-viewer (#1142239), orphaned today
Description: GUI front-end to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and
es2_info
Installations reported by Popcon: 45
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1142239
gradia (#1142240), orphaned today
Description: Simple tool to edit and annotate screenshots
Installations reported by Popcon: 22
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1142240
libdrilbo (#1141916), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Provides localization data for libdrilbo
Reverse Depends: fizmo-ncursesw fizmo-sdl2 libdrilbo-dev
libpixelif-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 95
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1141916
libfizmo (#1141917), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Provides localization data for libfizmo
Reverse Depends: fizmo-console fizmo-ncursesw fizmo-sdl2
libdrilbo-dev libfizmo-dev libmonospaceif-dev libpixelif-dev
libsndifsdl2-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 122
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1141917
libgbinder (#1142242), orphaned today
Description: GLib-style interface to Android binder IPC
Reverse Depends: libgbinder-dev libgbinder-tools python3-gbinder
Installations reported by Popcon: 150
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1142242
libglibutil (#1142243), orphaned today
Description: Library of glib utilities
Reverse Depends: libgbinder-dev libgbinder-tools libgbinder1
libglibutil-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 152
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1142243
libmonospaceif (#1141918), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Provides localization data for libmonospaceif
Reverse Depends: fizmo-ncursesw libmonospaceif-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 36
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1141918
libpixelif (#1141919), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Provides localization and font data for libpixelif
Reverse Depends: fizmo-sdl2 libpixelif-dev
Installations reported by Popcon: 70
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1141919
libsndifsdl2 (#1141920), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: SDL2-based sound support for the fizmo interpreter
Installations reported by Popcon: 10
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1141920
mousam (#1142244), orphaned today
Description: GUI application for the Weather
Installations reported by Popcon: 20
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1142244
mussh (#1141896), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: MUltihost SSH Wrapper
Installations reported by Popcon: 48
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1141896
prettyping (#1141905), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: better ping tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 78
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1141905
sic (#1141937), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: simple irc client (sic)
Installations reported by Popcon: 14
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1141937
tcpreen (#1141894), orphaned 4 days ago
Description: Simple TCP re-engineering tool
Installations reported by Popcon: 15
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1141894
1054 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 118 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 1592 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: 269227
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1006872
autopkgtest (#846328), requested 3515 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: 1244
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/846328
balsa (#642906), requested 5408 days ago
Description: An e-mail client for GNOME
Reverse Depends: balsa
Installations reported by Popcon: 142
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/642906
cargo (#860116), requested 3383 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: 5216
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/860116
chromium (#1016047), requested 1451 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 webhttrack
x2gothinclient-minidesktop
Installations reported by Popcon: 27516
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1016047
cinnamon (#1114514), requested 313 days ago
Description: Innovative and comfortable desktop
Reverse Depends: cinnamon cinnamon-core
Installations reported by Popcon: 11548
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1114514
cyrus-imapd (#921717), requested 2715 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: 298
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/921717
deb-gview (#1129643), requested 134 days ago
Description: GNOME viewer for .deb package files and contents
Installations reported by Popcon: 68
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1129643
dee (#831388), requested 3653 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: 68195
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/831388
developers-reference (#759995), requested 4338 days ago
Description: guidelines and information for Debian developers
Installations reported by Popcon: 1027
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/759995
dh-make-elpa (#942642), requested 2462 days ago
Description: helper for creating Debian packages from ELPA packages
Installations reported by Popcon: 37
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/942642
docker.io (#908868), requested 2861 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: 14065
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/908868
ejabberd (#1072724), requested 769 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: 258
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1072724
frama-c (#907946), requested 2872 days ago
Description: Platform dedicated to the analysis of source code
written in C
Installations reported by Popcon: 8
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/907946
freedombox (#940881), requested 2490 days ago
Description: debian pure blend, user-friendly, privacy-oriented home
server
Reverse Depends: fbx-all
Installations reported by Popcon: 1040
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/940881
freeradius (#933376), requested 2544 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: 1929
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/933376
gkrellm-radio (#1003222), requested 1652 days ago
Description: FM radio tuner for GKrellM
Installations reported by Popcon: 28
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1003222
gnome-shell-extension-caffeine (#891457), requested 3063 days ago
Description: GNOME Shell extension to keep your computer awake
Installations reported by Popcon: 576
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/891457
gnucash (#910059), requested 2844 days ago
Description: personal and small-business financial-accounting
software
Reverse Depends: gnucash
Installations reported by Popcon: 1985
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/910059
heimdal (#849325), requested 3490 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: 1132
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/849325
ifupdown (#1101365), requested 477 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: 269023
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1101365
ifupdown-ng-compat (#1089696), requested 582 days ago
Description: Incompatibilities with classic ifupdown remain
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1089696
imagemagick (#1017366), requested 1432 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 (120 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 85599
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1017366
libapache2-mod-python (#516501), requested 6354 days ago
Description: Python-embedding module for Apache 2
Installations reported by Popcon: 1364
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/516501
libmng (#831389), requested 3653 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: 6275
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/831389
libteam (#743212), requested 4490 days ago
Description: library for controlling team network device
Reverse Depends: ladvd libteam-dev libteam-utils
network-manager-team
Installations reported by Popcon: 124122
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/743212
mailman3 (#998223), requested 1718 days ago
Description: Mailing list management system
Reverse Depends: mailman3-full python3-mailman-hyperkitty
Installations reported by Popcon: 170
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/998223
multipath-tools (#1083104), requested 653 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: 7152
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1083104
nilfs-tools (#723599), requested 4685 days ago
Description: Continuous Snapshotting Log-structured Filesystem
Reverse Depends: libguestfs-nilfs
Installations reported by Popcon: 840
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/723599
nn (#470187), requested 6703 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 1961 days ago
Reverse Depends: obs-server
Installations reported by Popcon: 52
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/984462
openldap (#512360), requested 6386 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: 259897
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/512360
opensnitch (#1070855), requested 797 days ago
Description: GNU/Linux interactive application firewall
Installations reported by Popcon: 266
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1070855
openssl (#332498), requested 7588 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 (1236 more omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 275629
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/332498
openvanilla-modules (#678401), requested 5138 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: 1
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/678401
pgpool2 (#772047), requested 4242 days ago
Description: connection pool server and replication proxy for
PostgreSQL
Reverse Depends: libpgpool-dev pgpool2 postgresql-18-pgpool2
Installations reported by Popcon: 44
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/772047
pulseaudio (#743303), requested 4489 days ago
Description: PulseAudio sound server
Reverse Depends: aegisub ardour ares ascii-patrol audacious-plugins
audmes ayatana-indicator-sound baresip-x11 blender blueman (218 more
omitted)
Installations reported by Popcon: 158795
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/743303
qcontrol (#1122867), requested 215 days ago
Installations reported by Popcon: 87
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1122867
riseup-vpn (#1117550), requested 282 days ago
Description: Easy, fast, and secure VPN service from riseup.net
Installations reported by Popcon: 425
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1117550
sbcl (#1068094), requested 838 days ago
Description: Common Lisp compiler and development system
Reverse Depends: buildapp cl-quicklisp roslisp
Installations reported by Popcon: 917
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1068094
spamassassin (#676314), requested 5153 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: 4702
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/676314
swi-prolog (#896458), requested 3008 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: 874
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/896458
tbsync (#1093223), requested 546 days ago
Description: Thunderbird/Lightning Add-On to support MS Exchange
Calendar etc.
Reverse Depends: webext-eas4tbsync
Installations reported by Popcon: 146
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1093223
torbrowser-launcher (#796295), requested 3982 days ago
Description: helps download, update and run the Tor Browser Bundle
Installations reported by Popcon: 993
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/796295
torrus (#1117225), requested 284 days ago
Description: Universal front-end for Round-Robin Databases (common
files)
Installations reported by Popcon: 6
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/1117225
xloadimage (#919265), requested 2740 days ago
Description: Graphics file viewer under X11
Installations reported by Popcon: 653
Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/919265
See https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested for more information.