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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| python-deepl | Official Python library for the DeepL language translation API | 1.31.0-1 (UNRELEASED) | Lester Guerzon | Yes | No |
| caio | Asynchronous file IO for Linux MacOS or Windows | 0.12.3-2 (unstable) 0.12.3-2~exp1 (experimental) |
Yuri Konotopov | Yes | Yes |
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| softether-vpn | multiprotocol VPN program (common files) | 5.2.5188+dfsg-1 (unstable) | V Pertsev | Yes | Yes |
| tdlib | telegram database library - documentation | 1.8.66-1 (unstable) | Nicholas Guriev | Yes | No |
| audacious-plugins | Base plugins for audacious | 4.6.1-1 (unstable) | Mateusz Łukasik | Yes | Yes |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| python-slh-dsa | Python implementation of the SLH-DSA signature algorithm | 0.2.5-1 (unstable) | Xu Colin | Yes | No |
| crash | kernel debugging utility, allowing gdb like syntax | 8.0.2-1.1 (bookworm) | Juerg Haefliger | Yes | Yes |
| aiofile | Real asynchronous file operations with asyncio support | 3.12.3-1 (unstable) | Yuri Konotopov | Yes | Yes |
| libcalendars | precise calendar arithmetic library - development files | 1.1.1-1 (unstable) | Soroush Rabiei | Yes | No |
| ns-tool | custom dns lookup tool | 1.0-1 (unstable) | pisunov vladislav | Yes | No |
| ruby-mdl | Markdown lint tool - transitional dummy package | 0.18.1+ds-1 (unstable) | Norwid Behrnd | Yes | Yes |
| sysupdater | Universal System Package Updater & Repository Manager | 1.0.0-2 (unstable) | Firdaus Siregar | Yes | No |
| mariadb-connector-odbc | ODBC driver for MariaDB | 3.2.9-1 (unstable) | Luke Yasuda | Yes | Yes |
| formiko | reStructuredText and MarkDown editor and live previewer | 2.0.0-2 (unstable) | Ondřej Tůma | Yes | Yes |
| swayfx | Sway, but with eye candy! | 0.6-1 (unstable) | Damian Daniel | Yes | No |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| patchsplit | Split GitHub pull request patches into per-commit patch files | 1.0.2-1 (unstable) | OliverLin | Yes | No |
| sqlitestudio | transitional package | 4.0.3+ds-1 (unstable) | Yangfl | Yes | Yes |
| knowthelist | awesome party music player | 2.4.1-1 (unstable) | Mario Stephan | Yes | Yes |
| hx-grammars | Extra tree-sitter grammars for Helix | 25.07.1+20260614+ds+~0.3.3+ds+~0.4.0+20260607+ds-3 (unstable) | Junyong Liang | Yes | No |
| openmoneybox | Budget management application | 3.5.1-13 (unstable) | ClownyRaven | Yes | No |
| zzuf | transparent application fuzzer | 0.16.0-1 (UNRELEASED) | Bobbeh S | Yes | Yes |
| hadith | sayings of the Prophet Muhammad(saw), in the shape of fortune | 0.1.0-1 (unstable) | Masroor Ahmad | Yes | No |
| peel | Tool to create C++ bindings for GObject-based libraries | 0.0~git20260710.1e31a13-1 (UNRELEASED) | Dawid Kulas | Yes | No |
| golang-github-sagernet-sing | Modular networking library with reusable components | 0.8.11-1 (unstable) | Danial Behzadi | Yes | No |
| kate-quickrun | Quick Run plugin for Kate - compile and run the current file | 1.0.1-2 (unstable) | Wyllian Bezerra da Silva | Yes | No |
| openback | OpenBack Orchestrator and CLI | 0.1.3-1 (unstable) | REIHAN WIRATAMA ABYASA | Yes | No |
| ucpp | embeddable, quick and light C preprocessor | 1.3.2-7 (unstable) | Danial maleki | Yes | Yes |
| udownload | GTK4 download manager with browser integration | 1.0.18-1 (unstable) | Amirhossein Aghajani | Yes | No |
| mutt-ical | helper scripts for iCalendar events integration in mutt and neomutt | 2.0.2-20240916-g7c795ee1fd74-1 (unstable) | Roland Hieber | Yes | No |
| tesseract | Tesseract OCR with all language and script packages | 5.5.3-1 (unstable) | Alexander Pozdnyakov | Yes | Yes |
| pkgfinder | lightweight terminal tool to find system packages | 1.0-16 (unstable) | Gideon Laurie | Yes | No |
| amazon-ec2-net-utils | utilities for managing network interfaces in Amazon EC2 | 2.7.6-0.1 (unstable) | T K Sourab | Yes | Yes |