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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
sosreport Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system 4.7.2-2 (unstable) Arif Ali Marc Leeman Yes Yes

Yesterday

Package Description Version Uploader Needs a sponsor Already in Debian
ruby-build tool to compile and install different versions of Ruby 20240727-1 (unstable) Piper McCorkle Yes Yes
ruby-xmlparser Ruby interface for the expat XML parser toolkit 0.7.3-5 (unstable) Piper McCorkle Yes Yes

Some days ago

Package Description Version Uploader Needs a sponsor Already in Debian
bash-unit bash_unit - bash unit testing 2.3.1-1 (unstable) Martin Dosch Yes No
gpgmngr GPG assistant for the Linux terminal 1.0.2-1 (unstable) Manuel Guerra Yes No
vixl ARMv8 Runtime Code Generation Library - develop 7.0.0-1 (experimental) Andrea Pappacoda Yes Yes
indie-wiki-buddy browser extension that redirects you to independent wikis (Chromium) 3.9.0-1 (unstable) Piper McCorkle Yes No
wstroke Mouse gesture plugin for Wayfire 2.1.3-1 (unstable) Daniel Kondor Yes No
bashbro bash web file browser 1.11-1 (unstable) Adam M Danischewski Yes No

Older packages

Package Description Version Uploader Needs a sponsor Already in Debian
openvpn3-client virtual private network client (version 3) 21+dfsg-1 (unstable) Marc Leeman Yes No
web-mode major emacs mode for editing web templates 17.3.13-1 (unstable) Xiyue Deng Yes Yes
open62541 implementation of OPC UA (IEC 62541) - tools and nodeset-compiler 1.4.1-1 (UNRELEASED)
1.4.3-1 (unstable)
Julius Pfrommer Yes No
rsplib RSerPool implementation RSPLIB 3.4.10-1 (unstable) Thomas Dreibholz Yes Yes
td-system-tools Metapackage for system information and maintenance tools 1.7.1-1 (unstable) Thomas Dreibholz Yes No
rserpooldemo GUI tool for the RSerPool Demo system 3.1.7-1 (unstable) Thomas Dreibholz Yes No
debian-el Transition package, debian-el to elpa-debian-el 37.16 (unstable) Xiyue Deng Yes Yes
dpkg-dev-el Transition package, dpkg-dev-el to elpa-dpkg-dev-el 37.16 (unstable) Xiyue Deng Yes Yes
prismlauncher FOSS Minecraft launcher supporting multiple instances and accounts 8.4+ds-1 (unstable) Ben Westover Yes No
libjs-jush JavaScript Syntax Highlighter 2.0.2+git20210206+1-1 (unstable) Alexandre Rossi Yes No
graphite-carbon backend data caching and persistence daemon for Graphite 1.1.10-2 (unstable) Alexandre Rossi Yes Yes
lua-mode Emacs major-mode for editing Lua programs 20221027+git20231023.d074e41-1 (unstable) Xiyue Deng Yes Yes
fennel Lisp-based programming language for the Lua runtime 1.5.0-1 (UNRELEASED) Phil Hagelberg Yes No
python-google-ai-generativelanguage Client for Generative Language API 0.6.8-1 (unstable) Dong Xu Yes No
python-keep Personal shell command keeper and snippets manager 2.10.1-1 (unstable) Shriram Ravindranathan Yes No
scala-mode-el transitional dummy package, scala-mode-el to elpa-scala-mode 1:1.1.0+git20240729.bd0638c-1 (unstable) Xiyue Deng Yes Yes
feenox cloud-first free no-X uniX-like finite-element(ish) tool 1.0.83-1 (unstable) Jeremy Theler Yes No
runit system-wide service supervision 2.1.2-60 (UNRELEASED)
2.1.2-60 (unstable)
Lorenzo Puliti Yes Yes
muse-el author and publish projects using Wiki-like markup 3.20+git20240209.8710add+dfsg-1 (unstable) Xiyue Deng Yes Yes