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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
golf Programming language for web services 423 (stable)
471.0.0-1 (unstable)
Golf Team Yes No
hujson JSON for Humans (JWCC: JSON w/ comments and trailing commas) - (Program) 0.0~git20250226.ec1d1c1-1 (UNRELEASED)
0.0~git20250226.ec1d1c1-1 (experimental)
Facundo Acevedo Yes No

Yesterday

Package Description Version Uploader Needs a sponsor Already in Debian
avocado Set of tools and libraries to help with automated testing 110.0-1 (unstable) Arif Ali Yes No

Some days ago

Package Description Version Uploader Needs a sponsor Already in Debian
clifm Fast and lightweight command-line file manager 1.24-1 (unstable) Kirill Rekhov Yes No
clipboard Smart Clipboard Manager 0.10.0-1 (unstable)
0.10.0-1 (UNRELEASED)
Kirill Rekhov Yes No
quill Asynchronous Low Latency C++ Logging Library 9.0.2-1 (unstable) Syed Shahrukh Hussain Yes No
python-test2ref Testing Against Learned Reference Data 0.8.2-1 (unstable) Mitchell Augustin Yes No
duckdb In-process SQL OLAP database management system 1.2.2-1 (unstable) Mocus Zhang Yes No
xfce-polkit Simple PolicyKit authentication agent for Xfce 0.3+v20220621-1 (unstable) Peter Blackman Yes No

Older packages

Package Description Version Uploader Needs a sponsor Already in Debian
human-theme-gtk human theme for GTK 2.3.0-1 (experimental) Fabrice Creuzot Yes No
composefs mechanism for stacking read-only filesystems (tools) 1.0.8-1 (unstable) Roland Hieber Yes No
snuffleupagus Security module for php7 and php8 0.11.0-1 (unstable) Christian Göttsche Yes No
td-system-tools Metapackage for system information and maintenance tools 2.0.9-1 (unstable) Thomas Dreibholz Yes No
bluraybackup Backup BDMV from the command line 2.0-1 (unstable) Matteo Bini Yes Yes
hipercontracer High-Performance Connectivity Tracer (HiPerConTracer) 2.0.13-1 (unstable) Thomas Dreibholz Yes Yes
python-pwdlib Documentation for python3-pwdlib (common documentation) 0.2.1-1 (experimental) Carl Keinath Yes No
jcal UNIX-cal-like tool to display Jalali calendar 0.5.1-0.1 (unstable) Danial Behzadi Yes Yes
vara Drawing and digital painting application 0.1.250414+1 (unstable) Nandakumar Edamana Yes No
libxchange Documentation for the xchange C/C++ library 1.0.0-1 (unstable) Attila Kovacs Yes No
fonts-adwaita Adwaita Fonts Collection 48.2-1 (unstable) Kirill Rekhov Yes No