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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| taskhealth | Linux thread health monitoring (demo program) | 0.2.2-1 (unstable) | luhaoran | Yes | No |
| vielotus | VieLotusIM (Sen Viet) - Next-Gen Vietnamese Input Method metapackage | 2.0.0-1 (unstable) | Trần Phát Đạt (Steve Dat) | Yes | No |
| crumb | self-hosted agent harness and natural-language terminal | 1.2.0-1 (unstable) | Ayushman Bhattacharya | Yes | Yes |
| poco | C++ Portable Components (POCO) Zip library | 1.15.4-1 (unstable) | Iliya Abolghasemi | Yes | Yes |
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| urlwatch | monitors webpages for you | 2.29-2 (unstable) | Maxime Werlen | Yes | Yes |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| netperfmeter | Network Performance Meter (measurement program) | 2.0.14-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| fresh-editor | terminal text editor with LSP support and TypeScript plugins | 0.5.4-1 (unstable) | Noam Lewis | Yes | No |
| asl-assembler | ASL multi-target assembler | 1.42.311-2 (unstable) | Moshe Piekarski | Yes | No |
| flarespeed | terminal speed test against Cloudflare's network | 1.0.1-1 (unstable) | MOREAU Elliot | Yes | No |
| sentry-native | Sentry SDK for C, C++ and native applications - development files | 0.17.4+ds-1 (unstable) | Roman Ondráček | Yes | No |
| t-code-ide | lightweight C/C++ IDE | 0.4.1-1 (unstable) | suacayipkisi | Yes | No |
| u-boot-pylib | Python library used by U-Boot tools such as patman and buildman | 0.1.0-1 (unstable) | Simon Glass | Yes | No |
| bear | generate compilation database for Clang tooling | 4.2.3-1 (unstable) | Syed Shahrukh Hussain | Yes | Yes |
| phoinixdr | data-recovery engine - command-line tool | 0.1.8-1 (unstable) | Matt Barry | Yes | No |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gui | terminal text editor with a classic menu interface | 1.0-1 (unstable) | Guillermo Petruzzi | Yes | No |
| gnome-shell-extension-clipdeck | clipboard history in the GNOME Shell top bar | 1.0.0-1 (unstable) | Subhadip Jana | Yes | No |
| systemd-hardening-helper | Automatic systemd service hardening guided by strace profiling | 2026.3.8-1 (UNRELEASED) 2026.3.8-1 (unstable) |
Igor Makarov | Yes | No |
| portablemc | command line utility for launching Minecraft | 5.0.6-1 (unstable) | Théo Rozier | Yes | No |
| scandump | Command-line utility that writes Wi-Fi scan results in PCAP format | 2.3.0-1 (unstable) | Adrian Granados | Yes | No |
| alephone | open source continuation of Marathon game engine | 20260930-1 (unstable) | Anatoliy Gunya | Yes | No |
| nordstjernen-browser | web browser | 1.0.36+ds-1 (unstable) | Andreas Røsdal | Yes | No |
| northstar | minimalist GTK 4 web browser with an original engine | 1.0.16+ds-1 (unstable) | Andreas Røsdal | Yes | No |
| td-system-tools | Transitional package td-system-tools -> td-system-tools-basic | 2.7.15-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| myanon | mysqldump anonymizer | 0.8.8-1 (unstable) | Pierre POMES | Yes | No |
| tuiweathergirl | TUI Weathergirl | 1.5.13-11 (unstable) | Evgueni Antonov | Yes | No |
| ansible-temple | deploy a service one shot from an Ansible playbook catalogue | 0.1.1-1 (unstable) | Thomas Lloancy | Yes | No |
| raylibdoom | DOOM engine from the 1997 Linux source release, on raylib | 0.2.0+ds-1 (unstable) | Raydelto Hernandez | Yes | No |
| gsimplecal | lightweight GUI calendar application | 2.5.3-1 (unstable) | Hugo Torres de Lima | Yes | Yes |
| openxlsx | C++ library for manipulating OOXML (xlsx) files (development) | 0.5.2+dfsg2-1 (unstable) | Lars Uffmann | Yes | No |
| laser | Simple CD ripper for the GNOME desktop | 0.5.0-1 (unstable) | Aryan Karamtoth | Yes | No |
| systemd-manager-tui | terminal user interface for managing systemd services | 1.3.0-1 (unstable) | Matheus Silva Soares | Yes | No |
| slayer-editor | lightweight code editor with an embedded terminal | 0.4.6-1 (unstable) | Wyllian Bezerra da Silva | Yes | No |
| netns-tree | inspect Linux network namespaces and topology | 0.5.6-1 (unstable) | Luca Camardo | Yes | No |
| portop | interactive TCP and UDP port and process monitor | 0.1.0+git20261014.6772ea7-1 (UNRELEASED) | Luca Padovan | Yes | No |
| fnlfmt | Code formatter for Fennel | 0.4.0-1 (unstable) | Michel Lind | Yes | No |
| sapi | SaltStack salt-api hybrid CLI client and Full-Access MCP Server | 1.0.0-1 (unstable) | laurent LABATUT | Yes | No |