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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| robotraconteur | Robot Raconteur is a communication framework for | 1.2.5-1 (unstable) | John Wason | Yes | No |
| robotraconteur-companion | Companion C++ library for Robot Raconteur | 0.4.2-1 (unstable) | John Wason | Yes | No |
| dualword-rt | program for measuring bimanual simple visual reaction time | 0.1.3-1 (unstable) | AlexanderBusorgin | Yes | No |
| phoenix-esr | FireFox-ESR configs, privacy, fingerprinting, security and ... | 2025.07.30.1-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| doctest | Light and feature-rich C++ testing framework | 2.4.12-1 (unstable) | Syed Shahrukh Hussain | Yes | Yes |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fonts-mikhak | Mikhak font family | 3.4-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| turntable | Scrobble your music | 0.3.3-1 (experimental) | Danial Behzadi | Yes | No |
| fonts-estedad | Estedad font family | 7.3-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| purple-discord | Discord messaging service plugin for libpurple | 0.9.2025.06.29.git.c49e7c7-1 (unstable) | Patrick Zajda | Yes | Yes |
| dl-distro | Bash script for downloading and verifying OS images | 2.4.2-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| emacs-gptel | Interact with ChatGPT or other LLMs in Emacs | 0.9.8.5-1 (unstable) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| hyprgraphics | ${source:Synopsis} - library | 0.1.5-1 (unstable) | Carl Keinath | Yes | No |
| hypridle | Idle daemon for Hyprland | 0.1.6-1 (unstable) | Carl Keinath | Yes | No |
| postal1 | port of the 1997 classic game POSTAL 1 | 2015.git20250526+ds-1 (unstable) | Sébastien Noel | Yes | No |
| quill | Asynchronous Low Latency C++ Logging Library | 10.0.1-1 (unstable) | Syed Shahrukh Hussain | Yes | No |
| uwsm | Wayland session manager for standalone compositors | 0.22.0+ds-1 (experimental) 0.23.0+ds-1 (unstable) |
Carl Keinath | Yes | No |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sctplib | Documentation of the user-space SCTP implementation SCTPLIB | 1:1.0.32-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| socketapi | Development package for Socket-API | 2:2.2.25-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| tsctp | SCTP Test Tool | 0.8.2-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| lunatik | User-space tools for the Lunatik kernel module | 3.6.2-1 (unstable) | Shivam Vashisth | Yes | No |
| tree-sitter-verilog | SystemVerilog grammar for the tree-sitter parser - Rust source code | 1.0.3-1 (experimental) | Aryan Karamtoth | Yes | No |
| rsplib | RSerPool implementation RSPLIB | 3.5.3-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| fractgen | fractal images calculation application (Qt version) | 3.0.5-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| td-system-tools | Metapackage for system information and maintenance tools | 2.1.3-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| apachetop | Realtime Apache monitoring tool | 0.23.2-4.2~mentors1 (unstable) | Osman Romulo Condori Guevara | Yes | Yes |
| python-foxdoteditor | python-based language and editor for making music (editor) | 0.9.12-1 (unstable) | Joenio Marques da Costa | Yes | No |
| wolfssl | Development files for the wolfSSL encryption library | 5.8.2-1 (unstable) | Jacob Barthelmeh | Yes | Yes |
| sc3-vowel | Vowel Quark extension for SuperCollider | 0~20220104.ab59caa-1 (UNRELEASED) | Joenio Marques da Costa | Yes | No |
| emacs-wfnames | Edit filenames in Emacs | 1.2-1~exp1 (experimental) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| sol2 | Sol2 Documentation | 3.5.0-1 (unstable) | syzygial | Yes | No |
| recastnavigation | Software implementation of Recast Navigation (shared library) | 1.6.0+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Bret Curtis | Yes | Yes |
| kernel-hardening-checker | Tool for checking Linux kernel security hardening options | 0.6.10.2-1 (unstable) | Kirill Rekhov | Yes | No |
| mercurial-keyring | Mercurial Keyring Extension | 1.4.4-1 (UNRELEASED) 1.4.4-1 (unstable) |
Christoph Mathys | Yes | Yes |
| duckdb | in-process SQL OLAP database management system | 1.3.2-1 (unstable) | Mocus Zhang | Yes | No |
| python-cvss | CVSS2/3/4 library with interactive calculator for Python | 3.4-1 (unstable) | Nishit Majithia | Yes | No |
| python-pegen | CPython's PEG parser generator (documentation) | 0.3.0-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| prismlauncher | FOSS Minecraft launcher supporting multiple instances and accounts | 9.4+ds-1 (unstable) | Ben Westover | Yes | No |
| justbuild | Generic build system | 1.6.0-1 (unstable) | Oliver Reiche | Yes | Yes |
| mygui | API documentations for MyGUI library | 3.4.3+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Bret Curtis | Yes | Yes |