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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| svx-dashboard | SvxLink dashboard with SSE streamer | 1.0.0.1-8 (unstable) | Karel Kadlec | Yes | No |
| bazaar | New Flatpak App Store for GNOME | 0.4.5-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | Yes |
| instant-remote-storage | Directory watcher uploading to remote storage via rclone | 3.1.0-2 (unstable) | Carlo Capobianchi | Yes | No |
| golang-github-txthinking-runnergroup | Manage and run a group of processes with ease | 0.0~git20250224.5864ffe-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| golang-github-realclientip-realclientip-go | Go reference implementation of "real" client IP algorithms | 1.0.0-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| doh-cli | simple DNS-over-HTTPS client | 0.8-0 (UNRELEASED) 0.8-2 (unstable) |
Ermakov Alexander | 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 |
| 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 |
| mousam | GUI application for the Weather | 1.4.0+ds-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| libtcod | development files for the libtcod roguelike library | 1.24.0+dfsg-2 (unstable) | Nikolay Shaplov | Yes | Yes |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| imsprog | Linux chip programmer for CH341a devices | 1.6.2-1 (unstable) | Mikhail Medvedev | Yes | Yes |
| python-wn | Modern, interlingual wordnet interface (Python 3) | 0.13.0-1 (unstable) | Danial Behzadi | Yes | No |
| kddockwidgets | Dock Widget Framework for Qt | 2.2.5+ds-1 (unstable) | Sébastien Noel | Yes | No |
| vulkancapsviewer | Client application to display | 4.02-2 (UNRELEASED) 4.02-1 (unstable) |
Antoine Lassagne | Yes | No |
| sqlcipher | Command line interface for SQLCipher | 4.10.0-1 (unstable) | Syed Shahrukh Hussain | Yes | Yes |
| ssmtp | extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a mail hub | 2.65-1 (unstable) | Syed Shahrukh Hussain | Yes | Yes |
| open-vmdk | Assistant tool for creating Open Virtual Appliances (OVA) | 0.3.12-1 (unstable) | Mégane Vilain | Yes | No |
| i2cexplorer | i2c GUI utility | 1.0.2-1 (unstable) | AlexFomin | Yes | No |
| pdsh | Efficient rsh-like utility, for using hosts in parallel | 2.35-3 (unstable) | Arif Ali | Yes | Yes |
| xsane | featureful graphical frontend for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) | 0.999-13 (unstable) | Jörg Frings-Fürst | Yes | Yes |
Older packages
| 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 |
| netstat-nat | List/filter ongoing connections with NAT-specific decoding | 2b-1 (unstable) | наб | Yes | Yes |
| kdsingleapplication | KDAB's helper class for single-instance policy applications (dev) | 1.2.0-1 (unstable) | Peter Blackman | Yes | Yes |
| clifm | Fast and lightweight command-line file manager | 1.26-1 (unstable) | Kirill Rekhov | Yes | No |
| auroraftp | Modern FTP/SFTP client with PyQt6 GUI | 1.0.0-4 (unstable) | Robert Clouthier | Yes | No |
| 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 |
| wasix-libc | wasix libc implementation for WebAssembly | 2025.07.07.1+ds-1 (unstable) | Fukui Daichi | Yes | Yes |
| v4l-utils | Collection of command line video4linux utilities | 1.30.1-2 (unstable) | Gregor Jasny | Yes | Yes |
| dj-database-url | Django utility to utilize a DB env var (Python 3) | 3.0.1-1 (unstable) | Gabriel Barrantes | Yes | Yes |
| robotraconteur | Robot Raconteur code generator | 1.2.6-1 (unstable) | John Wason | Yes | No |
| gnome-shell-extension-paperwm | Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell | 48.0.2-1 (unstable) | Alexandre Rossi | Yes | No |
| clipboard | Smart Clipboard Manager | 0.10.0-1 (unstable) | Kirill Rekhov | Yes | No |
| myosotis | Simple checklist application | 0.1.4-1 (unstable) | Benoît Rouits | Yes | No |
| quill | Asynchronous Low Latency C++ Logging Library | 10.0.1-1 (unstable) | Syed Shahrukh Hussain | Yes | No |
| apulse | PulseAudio emulation for ALSA | 0.1.14-1 (unstable) | Mirek Kratochvil | Yes | Yes |
| emacs-cond-let | Additional and improved binding conditionals | 0.1.1-1 (unstable) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| uwsm | Wayland session manager for standalone compositors | 0.23.3+ds-1 (unstable) | Carl Keinath | Yes | No |
| emacs-geiser-guile | Guile and Geiser talk to each other | 0.28.3-1 (unstable) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| avocado | Set of tools and libraries to help with automated testing | 111.0-1 (unstable) | Arif Ali | Yes | No |