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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gnss-sdr | Global navigation satellite systems software defined receiver | 0.0.20-1 (unstable) | Carles Fernandez | Yes | Yes |
| tuiwidgets | high-level widget based toolkit for terminal applications - documentation | 0.2.2-1 (unstable) | Christoph Hueffelmann | Yes | Yes |
| hipercontracer | High-Performance Connectivity Tracer (HiPerConTracer) | 2.0.7-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| justbuild | Generic build system | 1.5.0-1 (unstable) | Oliver Reiche | Yes | Yes |
| plymouth-theme-hot-dog | Plymouth Happy Hot Dog Theme | 0.5-1 (unstable) | Michel Lind | Yes | No |
| libxchange | Documentation for the xchange C/C++ library | 1.0.0-1 (unstable) | Attila Kovacs | Yes | No |
| satdump | Generic satellite data processing software | 1.2.2-1 (unstable) | Apostolos Kefalas | Yes | Yes |
| fonts-adwaita | Adwaita Fonts Collection | 48.2-1 (unstable) | Kirill Rekhov | Yes | No |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| python-certbot-dns-luadns | Documentation for the LuaDNS Authenticator plugin for Certbot | 2.11.0-1 (unstable) | Chris Chancellor | Yes | No |
| aquamarine | Light-weight rendering library for Linux (binary files) | 0.7.2-1 (unstable) | Alan M Varghese | Yes | No |
| sanlock | Shared storage lock manager | 3.9.5-1 (unstable) | Håvard F. Aasen | Yes | Yes |
| python-enaml | Declarative DSL for building rich user interfaces in Python (documentation) | 0.18.0-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| python-enamlx | Additional Qt Widgets for Enaml | 0.6.4-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| td-system-tools | Metapackage for system information and maintenance tools | 2.0.8-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| redwax-tool | Read certificates and keys from your chosen sources, filter the certificates | 0.9.7-4 (UNRELEASED) 0.9.9-1 (unstable) |
Graham Leggett | Yes | No |
| inkcut | GUI for controlling vinyl cutters | 2.1.5-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| somefetch | Simple fetch tool for Unix-like systems | 0.2.1-1 (unstable) | Maksim Bengraf | Yes | No |
| wireguard-initramfs | WireGuard initramfs integration | 2025.03.02-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| python-simple-pid | Simple and easy-to-use PID controller - documentation | 2.0.1-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| hyprland-protocols | Wayland protocol extensions for Hyprland | 0.6.2-1 (unstable) | Alan M Varghese | Yes | Yes |
| libhyprcursor | hyprland cursor format, library and utilities (headers) | 0.1.11-1 (unstable) | Alan M Varghese | Yes | Yes |
| hyprwayland-scanner | Implementation of wayland-scanner for Hyprland | 0.4.4-1 (unstable) | Alan M Varghese | Yes | Yes |
| clipboard | Smart Clipboard Manager | 0.10.0-1 (unstable) 0.10.0-1 (UNRELEASED) |
Kirill Rekhov | Yes | No |
| libonig | regular expressions library — development files | 6.9.10-1 (unstable) | Jörg Frings-Fürst | Yes | Yes |
| kildclient | powerful MUD client with a built-in Perl interpreter | 3.2.3-1 (unstable) | Eduardo M KALINOWSKI | Yes | Yes |
| turtle | Nautilus extension for Turtle | 0.12.1-1 (unstable) | Philipp Unger | Yes | No |
| xsd | XML Data Binding for C++ | 4.0.0-10 (unstable) | Jörg Frings-Fürst | Yes | Yes |
| composefs | mechanism for stacking read-only filesystems (tools) | 1.0.8-1 (unstable) | Roland Hieber | Yes | No |
| wtmpdb | utility to display login/logout/reboot information | 0.72.0-2 (unstable) | Andrew Bower | Yes | Yes |
| hyprutils | Utilities used across the Hyprland ecosystem (library) | 0.5.1-1 (unstable) | Alan M Varghese | Yes | Yes |
| gcdemu | GNOME application to control CDEmu daemon | 3.2.6-1 (unstable) | Matteo Bini | Yes | No |
| package-assembler | CLI tool to create necessary files for a Debian package | 1.0.0 (unstable) | CrypticVerse | Yes | No |
| blueman | Graphical bluetooth manager | 2.4.4-1 (unstable) | Christopher Schramm | Yes | Yes |
| python-atom | Memory efficient Python objects (documentation) | 0.11.0-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| python-pegen | CPython's PEG parser generator (documentation) | 0.3.0-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| batsignal | Lightweight battery daemon written in C | 1.8.0-1 (unstable) | itd | Yes | No |
| notifymuch | Display desktop notifications for unread mail in notmuch database | 0.1~git20151223.0.9d4aaf5-1 (unstable) | itd | Yes | No |