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
Today
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| css-validator | W3C CSS Validator | 0~20250226+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Fab Stz | Yes | No |
| salvation | salvation - Content Security Policy (CSP) parser and validator | 2.7.2-1 (unstable) | Fab Stz | Yes | No |
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| python-lap | Linear Assignment Problem solver (LAPJV/LAPMOD) | 0.5.12-1 (unstable) 0.5.12-1 (UNRELEASED) |
Pieter Lenaerts | Yes | No |
| uwsm | Wayland session manager for standalone compositors | 0.23.3+ds-1 (unstable) | Carl Keinath | Yes | No |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| python-ffmpeg-progress-yield | Run an FFmpeg command with its progress yielded - documentation | 1.0.2+ds-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| python-sounddevice | Play and Record Sound with Python - documentation | 0.5.2-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| netstat-nat | List/filter ongoing connections with NAT-specific decoding | 2b-1 (unstable) | наб | Yes | Yes |
| ossp-uuid | perl OSSP::UUID - OSSP uuid Perl Binding | 1.6.5-1 (unstable) | наб | Yes | Yes |
| clifm | Fast and lightweight command-line file manager | 1.26-1 (unstable) | Kirill Rekhov | Yes | No |
| robotraconteur | Robot Raconteur code generator | 1.2.6-1 (unstable) | John Wason | Yes | No |
| clipboard | Smart Clipboard Manager | 0.10.0-1 (unstable) | Kirill Rekhov | Yes | No |
| quill | Asynchronous Low Latency C++ Logging Library | 10.0.1-1 (unstable) | Syed Shahrukh Hussain | Yes | No |
| avocado | Set of tools and libraries to help with automated testing | 111.0-1 (unstable) | Arif Ali | Yes | No |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| phoenix | FireFox/FireFox-ESR configs, privacy, fingerprinting, security and ... | 2025.08.06.1+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| phoenix-esr | FireFox-ESR configs, privacy, fingerprinting, security and ... | 2025.08.06.1+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| human-theme-gtk | human theme for GTK | 2.6.0-1 (experimental) | Fabrice Creuzot | Yes | No |
| turntable | Scrobble your music | 0.3.3-1 (experimental) 0.3.3-1 (unstable) |
Danial Behzadi | Yes | No |
| hypridle | Idle daemon for Hyprland | 0.1.6-1 (unstable) | Carl Keinath | Yes | No |
| robotraconteur-companion | Companion C++ library for Robot Raconteur development files | 0.4.2-1 (unstable) | John Wason | Yes | No |
| touchegg | Multi-touch gesture recognizer | 2.0.18-1 (unstable) | Andre Flechs | Yes | No |
| python-textual-serve | Python Library to serve textual applications in a browser | 1.1.2-1 (unstable) | Aryan Karamtoth | Yes | No |
| myosotis | Simple checklist application | 0.1.2-1 (unstable) | Benoît Rouits | Yes | No |
| kafel | Development files for the kafel policy parser | 0~20231004-1 (unstable) | Stephen Crosby | Yes | No |
| inkcut | GUI for controlling vinyl cutters | 2.1.6-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| gmqcc | Improved Quake C compiler | 0.3.5+git20230505-1 (unstable) | Sébastien Noel | Yes | No |
| crunch-dxtc | Advanced DXTc texture compression and transcoding tool | 0.55.4-1 (unstable) | Sébastien Noel | Yes | No |
| fonts-xolonium | futuristic typeface, with focus on legibility | 4.2-1 (unstable) | Sébastien Noel | Yes | No |
| netradiant | Quake 3 map compiler | 1.5.0+git20250722-1 (unstable) | Sébastien Noel | Yes | No |
| python-radexreader | reader for the RADEX RD1212 and ONE Geiger counters (CLI) | 1.3.0-1 (experimental) | Fabrice Creuzot | Yes | No |
| emacs-geiser-guile | Guile and Geiser talk to each other | 0.28.3-1 (unstable) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| inspector | GTK4 programme that gives information about your system | 0.2.0-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| ascii-draw | Create beautiful diagrams and artwork using only ASCII characters | 1.1.0-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| libbs2b | Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP library | 3.1.0+dfsg1-1 (unstable) | James M | Yes | Yes |
| python-sudoku | Python package that generates and solves m x n Sudoku puzzles | 2.0.0-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| vkbasalt-cli | CLI utility and library in conjunction with vkBasalt | 3.1.1-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| xob | Lightweight overlay bar for the X Window System | 0.3-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| uwsgi | fast, self-healing application container server | 2.0.30-1 (unstable) | Alexandre Rossi | Yes | Yes |
| uwsgi-plugin-java | Java plugin for uWSGI | 0.0.6 (unstable) | Alexandre Rossi | Yes | Yes |
| webtunnel | Pluggable Transport based on HTTP Upgrade(HTTPT) | 0.0.2-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| prismlauncher | FOSS Minecraft launcher supporting multiple instances and accounts | 9.4+ds-1 (unstable) | Ben Westover | Yes | No |
| gambc | Gambit Scheme interpreter and compiler | 4.9.7+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Abdelhakim Qbaich | Yes | Yes |
| lynkeos.app | GNUstep app for processing planetary astronomical images | 3.9+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Yavor Doganov | Yes | Yes |
| python-fire | automatically generate CLIs from absolutely any Python object | 0.7.1-1 (unstable) | Danial Behzadi | Yes | Yes |