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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xml-core | XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support | 0.21 (unstable) | Ahmed Alaoui | Yes | Yes |
| disgreet | greetd terminal frontend with pixelated image background | 0.1.1-1 (unstable) | Dvorak Chen | Yes | No |
| rocm-core | provides methods to get information about installed ROCm - headers | 7.2.4-1~exp1 (experimental) | Talha Can Havadar | Yes | Yes |
| speed-type | Practice touch and speed typing | 1.7-1 (UNRELEASED) | Julin Shaji | Yes | No |
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sjasmplus | Cross-platform Zilog Z80 assembler (R800/Z80N/i8080/LR35902) | 1.23.1+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Peter Helcmanovsky | 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 |
| quickroute-gps | GPS analysis software for getting your route on the map | 2.5-3 (unstable) | Kristóf Ralovich | Yes | Yes |
Some days ago
| 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 |
| xcalib | Tiny monitor calibration loader for Xorg | 0.9.dfsg1-1 (sid) | taro-k | 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 | 2.7.3-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| ruby-chef-utils | Basic utility functions for Core Chef Infra development | 19.2.12-0.1 (unstable) | Norwid Behrnd | Yes | Yes |
| imsprog | Linux chip programmer for CH341A/CH347T devices | 1.8.5-1 (unstable) 1.8.3+ds-1 (UNRELEASED) |
Mikhail Medvedev | Yes | Yes |
| systemtap | instrumentation system for Linux | 5.4-2 (unstable) | Syed Shahrukh Hussain | Yes | Yes |
| ksmtuned | enables and tunes Kernel Samepage Merging | 4.20180327-1 (unstable) | Fukui Daichi | Yes | Yes |
| pekwm | very light window manager | 0.4.4-3 (unstable) | Timothy Gaskell | Yes | Yes |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libmatio | MATLAB MAT File I/O Library - command-line tools | 1.5.30-3 (unstable) | Kirill Rekhov | Yes | Yes |
| netperfmeter | Network Performance Meter (measurement program) | 2.0.5-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| suika3 | Portable 2D game scripting runtime (metapackage) | 26.05.15+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Awe Morris | Yes | No |
| noct | tiny programming language for sandboxed scripting | 1.0.24-1 (unstable) | Awe Morris | Yes | No |
| libhx | Documentation files for libhx | 5.4-1 (unstable) | Jörg Frings-Fürst | Yes | Yes |
| playfield | 2D game scripting runtime with Ray language sandbox | 1.0.13+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Awe Morris | Yes | No |
| girlfriend | Funny romantic virtual girlfriend assistant for Linux terminal users | 3.0.0-1 (unstable) | benjamin | Yes | No |
| yetty | Serial port log viewer for embedded development | 0.1.5-1 (unstable) | Arjun AK | Yes | No |
| python-plantuml | remote client interface to plantuml server | 0.3.0+git20191101.173cd86-1 (UNRELEASED) | Alex | Yes | No |
| openmoneybox | Budget management application | 3.5.1-10 (unstable) | ClownyRaven | Yes | No |
| ruby-heitt | Hash Extraction, Identification and Triage Tool. | 0.4.5-4 (experimental) | Jonathan Botchway Owusu | Yes | No |
| python3-eduvpn-client | eduVPN client (Python 3) | 4.7.2-1 (unstable) | Ganesh Menon | Yes | No |
| python3-eduvpn-common | Python wrapper for the eduVPN common library | 5.0.2-1 (unstable) | Ganesh Menon | Yes | No |
| wireless-tools | Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions | 30~pre9-22 (unstable) | Ahmed Alaoui | Yes | Yes |
| gteatime | lightweight GTK3 system-tray tea and coffee timer | 1.0.2-1 (unstable) | J. A. Corbal | Yes | No |
| uwsgi | fast, self-healing application container server | 2.0.31-5 (unstable) | Alexandre Rossi | Yes | Yes |
| 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 |
| cephtrace | cephtrace tools help investigating Ceph performance bottlenecks | 1.5-1 (unstable) | Alan Baghumian | Yes | No |
| opentk | Open Toolkit wrapper for OpenGL, OpenAL and OpenCL - Docs | 1.1.4c+dfsg-4 (unstable) | Monty | Yes | Yes |
| gammastep | Adjust display hue to outside lighting conditions | 2.0.11-1 (unstable) | Karol Werner | Yes | Yes |
| play.it-vv221 | ./play.it collection - vv221ʼs games collection | 2026-04-17-1~bpo13+1 (trixie-backports) | Aryan Karamtoth | Yes | Yes |
| simplesamlphp | Authentication and federation application supporting several protocols | 2.1.8-0.1 (unstable) | Nikolas Nyby | Yes | Yes |
| tremc | ncurses interface for the Transmission BitTorrent daemon | 0.9.6-1 (unstable) | Francisco Mariano Neto | Yes | Yes |
| pkgfinder | lightweight terminal tool to find system packages | 1.0-3 (unstable) | Gideon Laurie | Yes | No |
| dynmhs | Dynamic Multi-Homing Setup (DynMHS) | 0.3.3-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| antpm | ANT+ information retrieval client for Garmin GPS products | 1.25-1 (unstable) | Kristóf Ralovich | Yes | Yes |
| sc-controller | User-mode driver, mapper and GTK3 GUI for game controllers | 0.5.5-1 (unstable) | Michael Lloyd | Yes | No |