Control: tags -1 moreinfo There are quite a few reverse dependencies, I guess those needs to be tackled first.
$ ssh mirror.ftp-master.debian.org "dak rm -Rn freeimage" Will remove the following packages from unstable: freeimage | 3.18.0+ds2-11 | source libfreeimage-dev | 3.18.0+ds2-11 | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x libfreeimage3 | 3.18.0+ds2-11 | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x libfreeimageplus-dev | 3.18.0+ds2-11 | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x libfreeimageplus-doc | 3.18.0+ds2-11 | all libfreeimageplus3 | 3.18.0+ds2-11 | amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers <[email protected]> ------------------- Reason ------------------- ---------------------------------------------- Checking reverse dependencies... # Broken Depends: apriltag: apriltag colmap: colmap [amd64 arm64 i386 ppc64el riscv64 s390x] deepin-album: deepin-album deepin-image-viewer: deepin-image-viewer forge: libforge1t64 gl-image-display: libgl-image-display0 libkysdk-applications: libkysdk-applications mrcal: libmrcal4 nvidia-cuda-samples/contrib: nvidia-cuda-samples ogre-1.12: libogre1.12.10t64 ogre-1.9: libogre-1.9.0t64 opencascade: libocct-ivtk-dev libocct-visualization-7.8 libocct-visualization-7.9 libocct-visualization-dev perceptualdiff: perceptualdiff photoqt: photoqt [amd64 arm64 armhf ppc64el riscv64 s390x] posterazor: posterazor ruby-image-science: ruby-image-science # Broken Build-Depends: apriltag: libfreeimage-dev colmap: libfreeimage-dev deepin-album: libfreeimage-dev deepin-image-viewer: libfreeimage-dev dtkgui: libfreeimage-dev forge: libfreeimage-dev gl-image-display: libfreeimage-dev imv: libfreeimage-dev kew: libfreeimage-dev libkysdk-applications: libfreeimage-dev libfreeimageplus-dev mrcal: libfreeimage-dev ogre-1.12: libfreeimage-dev ogre-1.9: libfreeimage-dev opencascade: libfreeimage-dev perceptualdiff: libfreeimage-dev photoqt: libfreeimageplus-dev posterazor: libfreeimage-dev ruby-image-science: libfreeimage-dev xtrkcad: libfreeimage-dev Dependency problem found. On Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:26:59 +0100 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <[email protected]> wrote: > Source: freeimage > Version: 3.18.0+ds2-11 > Severity: serious > Tags: security > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > Hi, > > It looks like freeimage is dead upstream (last upstream release in 2018, upstream > maintainer email bounces[1]). With many open security issues[2], I believe freeimage > is not in a shape to be released in Debian, and should be removed. > > This bug at RC severity should kick it out of testing for the time being, and if > nobody is willing to take over it and look at the security issues, it should > eventually be dropped from sid as well. > > Cheers, > Emilio > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1082375 > [2] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/freeimage > >
