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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ots | Open Text Summarizer | 0.5.0-10 (unstable) | Haolin Xue | Yes | Yes |
| luafetch | Fast Lua terminal animation & 3D graphics engine | 1.0-7 (unstable) | Svyatoslav (Delta Tech) | Yes | No |
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| odr-dabmod | DAB modulator compliant to ETSI EN 300 401 | 3.2.0+ds-1 (unstable) | Robin Alexander | Yes | Yes |
| cephtrace | cephtrace tools help investigating Ceph performance bottlenecks | 1.6-1 (unstable) | Alan Baghumian | Yes | No |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| odr-dabmux | Digital Audio Broadcasting multiplexer compliant to ETSI EN 300 401 | 5.5.1-1 (unstable) | Robin Alexander | Yes | Yes |
| pipe-viewer | lightweight YouTube client | 0.5.8-1 (unstable) | Samuel Young | Yes | No |
| python-plantuml | remote client interface to plantuml server | 0.3.0+git20191101.173cd86-1 (unstable) | Alex | Yes | No |
| ruby-mdl | Markdown lint tool - transitional dummy package | 0.17.0-1 (unstable) | Norwid Behrnd | Yes | Yes |
| nginx-snippets | Useful, commonly used nginx configuration snippets | 1.3~bpo13+1 (trixie-backports) | Thomas Ward | Yes | Yes |
| btrfs-assistant | Qt GUI tool to manage Btrfs filesystems | 2.1.1-1+deb13u1 (trixie) | Dale Richards | Yes | Yes |
| gambc | Gambit Scheme interpreter and compiler | 4.9.7+dfsg-2 (unstable) | Abdelhakim Qbaich | Yes | Yes |
| tuxapk | A mobile 3D rendering packager engine | 13.0-3 (unstable) | Carkle Oractle | Yes | No |
| luabind | luabind c++ binding for Lua: example files | 1.1.1-1 (unstable) | Iliya Abolghasemi | Yes | Yes |
| netkit-ntalk | Remote user communication server | 0.17-20 (unstable) | Iliya Abolghasemi | Yes | Yes |
| phoenixdkim | DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) signing and verifying milter | 1.0.0-1 (unstable) | Edmund Lodewijks | Yes | No |
| stimfit | Program for viewing and analyzing electrophysiological data | 0.17.1-2 (unstable) | Christoph Schmidt-Hieber | Yes | Yes |
| mx-bootrepair | GUI for repairing boot problems | 26.06.1+ds-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| esbmc | Efficient SMT-based Context-Bounded Model Checker | 8.3.0+dfsg-4 (unstable) | Weiqi Wang | Yes | No |
| netperfmeter | Network Performance Meter (measurement program) | 2.0.6-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| service-health | monitor systemd service health status | 1.0.1-1 (unstable) | Phillip Fürpaß | Yes | No |
| td-system-tools | Transitional package td-system-tools -> td-system-tools-basic | 2.7.4-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| ruby-chef-utils | Basic utility functions for Core Chef Infra development | 16.12.3-3.1 (unstable) | Norwid Behrnd | Yes | Yes |
| xml-core | XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support | 0.21 (unstable) | Ahmed Alaoui | Yes | Yes |
| sjasmplus | Cross-platform Zilog Z80 assembler (R800/Z80N/i8080/LR35902) | 1.23.1+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Peter Helcmanovsky | Yes | No |
| disgreet | greetd terminal frontend with pixelated image background | 0.1.1-1 (unstable) | Dvorak Chen | Yes | No |
| digger | Modern and feature-rich DNS lookup tool, a GUI for dig | 2.7.0-1 (unstable) | Seyed Mohamad Amin Modaresi | Yes | No |
| unit-health | monitor systemd service health status | 1.0.1-1 (unstable) | Phillip Fürpaß | Yes | No |
| pekwm | very light window manager | 0.4.4-3 (unstable) | Timothy Gaskell | Yes | Yes |
| kwstyle | Style checker for source code | 1.1.0~git20250114.eb1e46d+ds-1 (unstable) | 何庆 Ching He | Yes | Yes |
| emacs-speed-type | Practice touch and speed typing | 1.7-1 (UNRELEASED) | Julin Shaji | Yes | No |
| uwsgi | fast, self-healing application container server | 2.0.31-5 (unstable) | Alexandre Rossi | Yes | Yes |
| cangine | C++/OpenGL 2D game engine — development files | 0.1.1-1 (unstable) | Hüseyin Can Erdem | Yes | No |
| hyprshade | Hyprland shader configuration tool | 4.0.1-1 (unstable) | Aryan Karamtoth | Yes | No |
| premake4 | cross-platform build script generator | 4.3+repack1-4 (unstable) | Iliya Abolghasemi | Yes | Yes |
| libfilezilla | build high-performing platform-independent programs (runtime lib) | 0.55.5-1 (unstable) | Michael Lloyd | Yes | Yes |
| fzssh | SSH/SFTP library based on libfilezilla (development files) | 1.2.1-1 (unstable) | Michael Lloyd | Yes | No |
| filezilla | Full-featured graphical FTP/FTPS/SFTP client | 3.70.4-1 (unstable) | Michael Lloyd | Yes | Yes |
| sanlock | Shared storage lock manager | 5.1.0-1 (unstable) | Håvard F. Aasen | Yes | Yes |
| gammastep | Adjust display hue to outside lighting conditions | 2.0.11-1 (unstable) | Karol Werner | Yes | Yes |
| joystickwake | joystick-aware screen waker | 0.5.3-1 (unstable) | Forest | Yes | No |
| pkgfinder | lightweight terminal tool to find system packages | 1.0-3 (unstable) | Gideon Laurie | Yes | No |
| dynmhs | Dynamic Multi-Homing Setup (DynMHS) | 0.3.4-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| sc-controller | User-mode driver, mapper and GTK3 GUI for game controllers | 0.5.5-1 (unstable) | Michael Lloyd | Yes | No |