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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lsport | TUI and CLI tool for managing local and remote ports via SSH | 0.3.10-1 (unstable) | Parash Subedi | Yes | No |
| python-timecode | Python module for manipulating SMPTE timecode | 1.5.1-1 (unstable) | Arian Ott | Yes | No |
| libglibutil | Library of glib utilities | 1.0.80+ds-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sqlcipher | Command line interface for SQLCipher | 4.13.0-1 (unstable) | Syed Shahrukh Hussain | Yes | Yes |
| tenshi | log monitoring and reporting tool | 0.18-1 (unstable) | Michael Bunk | Yes | Yes |
| pymatting | Python library for alpha matting | 1.1.15-1 (unstable) | Arian Ott | Yes | No |
| cairocffi | cffi-based cairo bindings for Python - Documentation | 1.7.1-5 (unstable) | Arian Ott | Yes | Yes |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| display-dhammapada | fortune-like displayer of Buddhist sayings | 2.0-1 (unstable) | Haolin Xue | Yes | Yes |
| debsbom | SBOM generator for Debian-based distributions (tool) | 0.6.1-1 (UNRELEASED) 0.6.1-1 (unstable) |
Felix Moessbauer | Yes | No |
| horizonshell | modern interactive shell for Linux | 0.1.3-4 (UNRELEASED) | Austin Haas | Yes | No |
| starlette | ASGI library ideal for building high performance asyncio services | 0.46.1-3+deb13u1 (trixie) | Matheus Polkorny | Yes | Yes |
| link-query | Symbolic link query tool | 0.0.6-7 (unstable) | Kim Saunders | Yes | No |
| unordered-dense | fast, dense hashmap and hashet header-only library | 4.8.1-1 (unstable) | Andreas Glinserer | Yes | No |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| swift-mode | Major-mode for Apple's Swift programming language | 9.4.0-1 (unstable) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| emacs-gptel | Interact with ChatGPT or other LLMs in Emacs | 0.9.9.3-1 (unstable) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| libversion | advanced version string comparison library - binary tools | 3.0.4-1 (unstable) | Samuel Young | Yes | No |
| pipe-viewer | lightweight YouTube client | 0.5.6-1 (unstable) | Samuel Young | Yes | No |
| phoronix-test-suite | Comprehensive automated testing and benchmarking platform | 10.8.4-1 (unstable) | Rinat Gumirov | Yes | Yes |
| budgie-desktop-services | Core package for all Budgie Desktop related services | 1.0.2-1 (experimental) | David Mohammed | Yes | No |
| starfetch | command line tool written in C++ that displays constellations | 0.0.4+ds-1 (sid) | Jacob Mealey | Yes | No |
| libwsc | Development files for the libwsc WebSocket client library | 1.1.0-4 (unstable) | Milan Milosavljevic | Yes | No |
| gallia | Extendable Pentesting Framework | 2.0.2-1 (unstable) | Stefan Tatschner | Yes | No |
| stremio-gtk | Modern media center (GTK4 client) | 1.0.0~beta.13+ds-1 (experimental) | Juan Manuel Méndez Rey | Yes | No |
| kylin-wayland-compositor | Kylin wayland compositor based on wlroots | 1.3.1-1 (unstable) | handsome_feng | Yes | No |
| gnu-c-intro-and-ref | GNU C Language Introduction and Reference Manual | 0.1-1 (unstable) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| openmoneybox | Budget management application | 3.5.1-7 (unstable) | Igor Calì | Yes | No |
| python-generic | Generic is a library for Multiple dispatch programming | 1.1.6-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| python-better-exceptions | Pretty and useful exceptions in Python, automatically | 0.4.0-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| python-gaphas | Gaphas is the diagramming widget library for Python | 5.1.2-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| visp | visual servoing library - documentation | 3.7.0-1 (unstable) | Fabien Spindler | Yes | Yes |
| stremio-server | Proprietary streaming server component for Stremio | 4.20.16-1 (unstable) | Juan Manuel Méndez Rey | Yes | No |
| syft | CLI tool for generating Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) | 1.40.0+ds-1 (unstable) | Juan Manuel Méndez Rey | Yes | No |
| parlatype | Minimal audio player for manual speech transcription | 4.3-1 (unstable) | Gabor Karsay | Yes | Yes |
| parlatype-libreoffice-extension | LibreOffice Extension for Parlatype | 4.3-1 (unstable) | Gabor Karsay | Yes | Yes |
| golang-github-toitware-ubjson | Go library for the Universal Binary JSON (UBJSON) format | 0.0~git20260115.354787f-1 (unstable) | Frederic Brüning | Yes | No |
| afnix | Compiler and run-time for the AFNIX programming language | 3.8.0-1.2 (unstable) | zhangdandan | Yes | Yes |
| wasix-libc | wasix libc implementation for WebAssembly | 2025.12.24.1+ds-1 (unstable) | Fukui Daichi | Yes | Yes |
| crash | kernel debugging utility, allowing gdb like syntax | 9.0.1+~16.3-1 (unstable) | Juerg Haefliger | Yes | Yes |
| joystickwake | joystick-aware screen waker | 0.5.1 (unstable) | Forest | Yes | No |
| uwsgi-plugin-pypy | pypy3 plugin for uWSGI | 0.0.4 (unstable) | Alexandre Rossi | Yes | Yes |
| gpu-screen-recorder | Shadowplay-like screen recorder (modprobe conf) | 5.11.3-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| miniz | Miniz development files | 3.1.0-1 (unstable) | Andreas Glinserer | Yes | No |