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 |