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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ruby-chef-utils | Basic utility functions for Core Chef Infra development | 19.2.12-0.1 (unstable) | Norwid Behrnd | Yes | Yes |
| avocado | Set of tools and libraries to help with automated testing | 113.0-1 (unstable) | Arif Ali | Yes | No |
| sos | Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system | 4.11.0-1 (unstable) | Bryan Fraschetti | Yes | Yes |
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| imsprog | Linux chip programmer for CH341A/CH347T devices | 1.8.3-1 (unstable) | Mikhail Medvedev | Yes | Yes |
| libcxx-serial | Cross-platform, Serial Port library written in C++ (runtime) | 1.2.1-9 (unstable) | Alec Leamas | Yes | Yes |
| python-papermill | Parameterize, execute, and analyze notebooks | 2.7.0-1 (unstable) | Pieter Lenaerts | Yes | Yes |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pigment | Get color palettes from images | 0.5.6-1 (unstable) | Danial Behzadi | Yes | Yes |
| celluloid | simple GTK+ frontend for mpv | 0.30-1 (unstable) | Danial Behzadi | Yes | Yes |
| suika3 | Portable 2D game engine with a DSL for visual novels | 26.04.9-3 (unstable) 26.04.8-1 (UNRELEASED) |
Awe Morris | Yes | No |
| rust-bcrypt | Easily hash and verify passwords using bcrypt - feature "zeroize" | 0.19.0-1 (unstable) | Alessandro Zanni | Yes | Yes |
| python-mediafile | read and write audio files' tags in Python | 0.16.0-1 (unstable) | Pieter Lenaerts | Yes | Yes |
| gnss-sdr | Global navigation satellite systems software defined receiver | 0.0.21-1 (unstable) | Carles Fernandez | Yes | Yes |
| pixie | Minimal static HTTP server written in Rust | 1.1.0-3 (unstable) | Léo Torres | Yes | Yes |
| runit-services | UNIX init scheme with service supervision (services) | 0.13.0 (experimental) | Lorenzo Puliti | Yes | Yes |
| gambc | Gambit Scheme interpreter and compiler | 4.9.7+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Abdelhakim Qbaich | Yes | Yes |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| enca | Extremely Naive Charset Analyser - binaries | 1.22-1 (unstable) | Syed Shahrukh Hussain | Yes | Yes |
| binaryen | compiler and toolchain infrastructure library for WebAssembly | 129-1 (unstable) | Fukui Daichi | Yes | Yes |
| golang-github-therootcompany-xz | Native Go XZ decompression package (library) | 1.0.1-1 (unstable) | Mikhail Potemkin | Yes | No |
| libversion | advanced version string comparison library - binary tools | 3.0.4-1 (unstable) | Samuel Young | Yes | No |
| pipe-viewer | lightweight YouTube client | 0.5.7-1 (unstable) | Samuel Young | Yes | No |
| libjs-clusterize | Tiny vanilla JS plugin to display large data sets easily | 1.0.0-1 (unstable) | Alexandre Rossi | Yes | No |
| openmoneybox | Budget management application | 3.5.1-9 (unstable) | clownyraven | Yes | No |
| python-hupper | Integrated process monitor for developing servers. (Python 3) | 1.12.1-1 (UNRELEASED) | diwa tomy | Yes | Yes |
| simplefilehost | Lightweight file sharing server with TLS and QR support | 2.0-1 (unstable) | Nikolay Kravtsov | Yes | No |
| mdk-doc | Documentation for the MIX Development Kit | 1.3.1-1 (unstable) | 何庆 Ching He | Yes | Yes |
| clipboard | Smart Clipboard Manager | 0.10.0-1 (unstable) | Kirill Rekhov | Yes | No |
| wkgtk-html2pdf | Professional headless HTML-to-PDF engine (CLI tool) | 1.0.13-1 (unstable) | James Hothersall | Yes | No |
| uwsgi-plugin-pypy | pypy3 plugin for uWSGI | 0.0.6 (unstable) | Alexandre Rossi | Yes | Yes |
| zip-drain | High-performance archive extraction and draining utility | 1.0.3-1 (unstable) 1.0.2-1 (sid) |
Armin Jay L. Caldito | Yes | No |
| libmrss | C library for parsing, writing and creating RSS files or streams | 0.19.4-2 (unstable) | Haolin Xue | Yes | Yes |
| flatsweep | Flatpak leftover cleaner, written in Python | 2025.6.20-1 (unstable) | Aryan Karamtoth | Yes | No |
| doctest | Light and feature-rich C++ testing framework | 2.5.0-1 (unstable) | Syed Shahrukh Hussain | Yes | Yes |
| plptools | Access EPOC device (Psion PDA) over a serial link | 1.0.26-1 (unstable) | Syed Shahrukh Hussain | Yes | Yes |
| ipscan | Angry IP Scanner | 3.9.3+ds-1 (unstable) | Jonathan Bergh | Yes | No |
| bglibs | This package contains a collection of libraries (documentation) | 2.04+dfsg-10zainium4 (unstable) | Ali Zain | Yes | Yes |
| notepadx | Fast native text editor with GPU rendering | 1.3.2-1 (unstable) | Levente Szabadkai | Yes | No |