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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mint-sticky | Desktop Sticky Notes app for Linux | 1.31-1 (unstable) | Aryan Karamtoth | Yes | No |
| esbmc | Efficient SMT-based Context-Bounded Model Checker | 8.4+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Weiqi Wang | Yes | No |
| eoip | MikroTik compatible EoIP tunnel management tool | 2.3-1 (unstable) | Boian Bonev | Yes | No |
| cunit | Unit Testing Library for C -- documentation | 2.1-3-dfsg-6 (unstable) | Edmund Lodewijks | Yes | Yes |
| wpa-cute | Qt frontend for wpa_supplicant | 0.8.6-1 (unstable) | Markus Petermann | Yes | No |
| sfwbar | SFWBar (S* Floating Window Bar) is a flexible taskbar application for wayland compositors, designed with a stacking layout in mind. | 1.0~beta17 (unstable) | David Richard | Yes | Yes |
| nmbs | confidentiality label binding tools | 1.0.0~5-1 (unstable) | Luke Ian Turner | Yes | No |
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| shh | Automatic systemd service hardening guided by strace profiling | 2025.3.12-1 (UNRELEASED) | Igor Makarov | Yes | No |
| wnepali | Nepali wordlist | 1.0-1 (unstable) | Sparsha Bhusal | Yes | No |
| sos | Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system | 4.11.2-1~bpo13+1 (trixie-backports) | Bryan Fraschetti | Yes | Yes |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| td-system-tools | Transitional package td-system-tools -> td-system-tools-basic | 2.7.11~rc0-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| opsec | Tool for larp kings! | 1.0.0 (unstable) 1.0.0-2 (stable) |
NX8642 | Yes | No |
| 6tunnel | TCP proxy for non-IPv6 applications | 1:0.14-2 (unstable) | Damian Daniel | Yes | Yes |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| netperfmeter | Network Performance Meter (measurement program) | 2.0.9-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| o3diag | Professional OBD-II diagnostic tool | 3.2.1-1 (unstable) | openw3rk INVENT | Yes | No |
| emacs-speed-type | Practice touch and speed typing | 1.7-1 (UNRELEASED) | Julin Shaji | Yes | No |
| golang-github-xtls-reality | Platform for bypass network restrictions | 0.0~git20260322.9234c77-1 (unstable) | Danial Behzadi | Yes | No |
| climate | Command-line weather forecast utility | 1.4-1 (unstable) | Kamil Yarkaev | Yes | No |
| socketapi | Development package for Socket-API | 2:2.2.28-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| sctplib | Documentation of the user-space SCTP implementation SCTPLIB | 1:1.0.35-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |