Welcome to mentors.debian.net
Only approved members of the Debian project (Debian Developers) are granted the permission to upload software packages into the Debian distribution. Still a large number of packages is maintained by non-official developers. How do they get their work into Debian when they are not allowed to upload their own packages directly? By means of a process called sponsorship. Sponsorship means that a Debian Developer uploads the package on behalf of the actual maintainer. The Debian Developer will also check the package for technical correctness and help the maintainer to improve the package if necessary. Therefore the sponsor is sometimes also called a mentor.
Note, not only Debian Developer are allowed to review packages. Everyone is encouraged to review packages! We appreciate your efforts as well.
Getting your package into Debian
See our introductory page for maintainers and learn how to use mentors.debian.net and get your packages into Debian. Furthermore see our introductory page on sponsorship to learn how to get in touch with a sponsor.
If you are curious about Debexpo, the software which is running this site, you can read more about Debexpo on the Debian Wiki.
Recently uploaded packages
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| human-theme-gtk | human theme for GTK | 2.5.0-1 (experimental) | Fabrice Creuzot | Yes | No |
| composefs | mechanism for stacking read-only filesystems (tools) | 1.0.8-1 (unstable) | Roland Hieber | Yes | No |
| hipercontracer | High-Performance Connectivity Tracer (HiPerConTracer) | 2.0.17-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| ydotool | Command-line automation tool - cli | 1.0.4-1 (unstable) | Andre Paiusco | Yes | Yes |
| eggdrop | Advanced IRC Robot | 1.10.0-1 (unstable) | Sébastien Noel | Yes | Yes |
| rgbds | Game Boy assembly toolchain | 0.9.2-1 (unstable) | Sébastien Noel | Yes | No |
| recastnavigation | Software implementation of Recast Navigation (shared library) | 1.6.0+dfsg-2 (unstable) | Bret Curtis | Yes | Yes |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| awf-gtk | theme preview application for GTK 4 | 3.0.0-1 (unstable) | Fabrice Creuzot | Yes | Yes |
| getdns | modern asynchronous DNS API (stub resolver) | 1.7.3-1 (experimental) | Andrew Bower | Yes | Yes |
| limine | Modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager | 9.3.0-1 (unstable) | Facundo Acevedo | Yes | No |
| exaile | Music player with a simple interface and powerful capabilities | 4.1.4+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Andre Flechs | Yes | Yes |
| rsplib | RSerPool implementation RSPLIB | 3.5.2-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| fractgen | fractal images calculation application (Qt version) | 3.0.4-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| ucode | Tiny scripting language with ECMA script syntax | 0.0+git20250515+ds-1 (unstable) | Ahmad Khalifa | Yes | No |
| td-system-tools | Metapackage for system information and maintenance tools | 2.1.1-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| python-berkeleydb | Documentation for the Python Berkeley DB interface module | 18.1.14-1 (unstable) | Andre Flechs | Yes | No |
| imsprog | Linux chip programmer for CH341a devices | 1.6.1-1 (unstable) | Mikhail Medvedev | Yes | Yes |
| vlang | V programming language | 0.4.10+git20250521.7c50fb1+ds-1 (unstable) | Ahmad Khalifa | Yes | No |
| emacs-gptel | Interact with ChatGPT or other LLMs in Emacs | 0.9.8-1 (unstable) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| emacs-auth-source-xoauth2-plugin | Emacs authentication source plugin for xoauth2 | 0.2.1-1 (unstable) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| python-junit-xml | creates JUnit XML test result docs readable by tools such as Jenkins (py3k) | 1.9-6 (unstable) | Gabriel Barrantes | Yes | Yes |
| toilet | Display large, colorful characters in text mode | 0.3-4 (unstable) | Kirill Rekhov | Yes | Yes |
| emacs-wfnames | Edit filenames in Emacs | 1.2-1~exp1 (experimental) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| rehex | Reverse Engineers' Hex Editor | 0.62.1+git20250525+ds-1 (unstable) | Ahmad Khalifa | Yes | No |
| keyd | keyboard key remapping daemon | 2.5.0-5~exp1 (experimental) | Richard Hansen | Yes | Yes |
| sol2 | Sol2 Documentation | 3.5.0-2 (unstable) | syzygial | Yes | No |
| xfce-polkit | Simple PolicyKit authentication agent for Xfce | 0.3+v20220621-1 (unstable) | Peter Blackman | Yes | No |
| dynmhs | Dynamic Multi-Homing Setup (DynMHS) | 0.2.2-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| makemkv-oss | MakeMKV Blu-Ray decryption API library | 1.18.1+ds-1 (unstable) | Ben Westover | Yes | No |
| duckdb | in-process SQL OLAP database management system | 1.3.0-1 (unstable) | Mocus Zhang | Yes | No |