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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pay-respects | Press F to correct your command, pay-respects | 0.8.8-1 (unstable) | Don Xu | Yes | Yes |
| td-system-tools | Transitional package td-system-tools -> td-system-tools-basic | 2.7.1-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| uwsgi | fast, self-healing application container server | 2.0.31-5 (unstable) | Alexandre Rossi | Yes | Yes |
| cephtrace | cephtrace tools help investigating Ceph performance bottlenecks | 1.5-1 (unstable) | Alan Baghumian | Yes | No |
| hwatch | modern alternative to the watch command with history and diff views | 0.4.2-2 (unstable) | Naofumi Uesugi | Yes | Yes |
| dynmhs | Dynamic Multi-Homing Setup (DynMHS) | 0.3.3-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| raptor2 | Documentation for the Raptor 2 RDF syntax library | 2.0.16-7 (unstable) | Ahmed Alaoui | Yes | Yes |
| gnomint | X.509 Certification Authority management tool for GNOME | 1.5.1-1 (unstable) | Haolin Xue | Yes | Yes |
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| quickroute-gps | GPS analysis software for getting your route on the map | 2.5-2 (unstable) | Monty Kristóf Ralovich | Yes | Yes |
| gnubg | graphical or console backgammon program with analysis | 1.08.003-6 (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 |
| log4net | highly configurable logging API for the CLI | 1.2.10+dfsg-10 (unstable) | Monty | Yes | Yes |
| antpm | ANT+ information retrieval client for Garmin GPS products | 1.25-1 (unstable) | Kristóf Ralovich | Yes | Yes |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| netperfmeter | Network Performance Meter (measurement program) | 2.0.5-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| jpcre2 | C++ wrapper for the PCRE2 regular expression library | 10.32.01-1 (unstable) | Michael Lloyd | Yes | No |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| sc-controller | User-mode driver, mapper and GTK3 GUI for game controllers | 0.5.5-1 (unstable) | Michael Lloyd | Yes | No |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tart | versatile and feature-rich email signature generator | 3.10-5 (unstable) | Hikmah Gumelar | Yes | Yes |
| qt-style-globalqss | GlobalQSS style engine for Qt 6 | 1.1.0-1 (experimental) | Fabrice Creuzot | Yes | No |
| lmdbxx | C++17 header-only wrapper for LMDB | 1.0.0-1 (unstable) | Timur Dautov | Yes | Yes |
| libhtmlunit-csp-java | Library for working with Content Security Policy policies | 4.22.0-1 (unstable) | Fab Stz | Yes | No |
| 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 |
| ifrench-gut | French dictionary for ispell (GUTenberg version) | 1:1.0-33 (unstable) | Luiz Georg | Yes | Yes |
| libhx | Documentation files for libhx | 5.4-1 (unstable) | Jörg Frings-Fürst | Yes | Yes |
| argagg | Argument Aggregator - Simple C++11 command line argument parser - source doc | 0.4.7-5 (unstable) | Iliya Abolghasemi | Yes | Yes |
| netkit-ntalk | Remote user communication server | 0.17-20 (unstable) | Iliya Abolghasemi | Yes | Yes |
| playfield | 2D game scripting runtime with Ray language sandbox | 1.0.13+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Awe Morris | Yes | No |
| srek | Text processing and manipulation language, similar to sed | 1.1-2 (unstable) | Nikolas Fischer Soley | Yes | No |
| libjs-jush | JavaScript Syntax Highlighter | 2.2.0-1 (unstable) | Alexandre Rossi | Yes | Yes |
| imsprog | Linux chip programmer for CH341A/CH347T devices | 1.8.4-1 (unstable) 1.8.3+ds-1 (UNRELEASED) |
Mikhail Medvedev | Yes | Yes |
| girlfriend | Funny romantic virtual girlfriend assistant for Linux terminal users | 3.0.0-1 (unstable) | benjamin | Yes | No |
| uriparser | documentation files for uriparser | 1.0.1+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Jörg Frings-Fürst | Yes | Yes |
| acr | autoconf like tool | 2.2.6-1 (unstable) | Akash Doppalapudi | Yes | Yes |
| 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 |
| w-scan-cpp | DVB channel scanner (successor of w_scan) | 20260515+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Apostolos Kefalas | Yes | Yes |
| ruby-heitt | Hash Extraction, Identification and Triage Tool. | 0.4.5-4 (experimental) | Jonathan Botchway Owusu | Yes | No |
| openmoneybox | Budget management application | 3.5.1-10 (unstable) | ClownyRaven | Yes | No |
| s3fs-fuse | FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3 | 1.97-1 (unstable) | Hikmah Gumelar | Yes | Yes |
| kylin-ondevice-ai-engine-plugin | Ondevice AI plugin for kylin AI engine | 1.2.0.0-1 (unstable) | Pan Zhang | Yes | No |
| libkysdk-vector-engine-client | client library for the Kylin AI vector engine | 1.2.0.0-1 (unstable) | Pan Zhang | 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 |
| complexity | tool for analyzing the complexity of C program functions | 1.13-2 (unstable) | Boian Bonev | Yes | Yes |
| gteatime | lightweight GTK3 system-tray tea and coffee timer | 1.0.2-1 (unstable) | J. A. Corbal | Yes | No |
| premake4 | cross-platform build script generator | 4.3+repack1-4 (unstable) | Iliya Abolghasemi | Yes | Yes |
| sanlock | Shared storage lock manager | 5.1.0-1 (unstable) | Håvard F. Aasen | Yes | Yes |
| storebackup | fancy compressing managing checksumming deduplicating hard-linking cp -ua | 3.5.2-2 (unstable) | Syed Shahrukh Hussain | Yes | Yes |
| simplesamlphp | Authentication and federation application supporting several protocols | 2.1.8-0.1 (unstable) | Nikolas Nyby | Yes | Yes |
| pioneer | game of lonely space adventure | 0.0~20260203+ds-1 (unstable) | Nikolas Nyby | Yes | No |
| awf-qt | theme preview application for Qt 6 | 4.1.0-1 (experimental) | Fabrice Creuzot | Yes | No |