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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xmrig | High performance, open source CPU/GPU miner and RandomX benchmark. | 6.16.3-1 (unstable) | Ben Westover | Yes | No |
| byacc | public domain Berkeley LALR Yacc parser generator | 1:2.0.20220114-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dickey | Yes | Yes |
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| golang-github-gabriel-vasile-mimetype | fast Go library for detecting MIME types and extensions based on magic numbers | 1.4.0+dfsg1-2~bpo11+1 (bullseye-backports) | Martin Dosch | Yes | Yes |
| sentrypeer | SIP peer to peer honeypot for VoIP | 1.0.0-1 (UNRELEASED) | Gavin Henry | Yes | No |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| epub2txt2 | extract text from EPUB documents | 2.01-1 (experimental) | Thiago Pezzo | Yes | No |
| bctoolbox | Helper library for software by Belledonne Communications (shared library) | 4.4.34-0.1 (unstable) | Andrea Pappacoda | Yes | Yes |
| golang-github-pborman-getopt | getopt style option parsing for Go (library) | 1.1.0-2 (unstable) | Martin Dosch | Yes | Yes |
| golang-debian-mdosch-xmppsrv | Look up XMPP SRV records (library) | 0.1.0-2 (unstable) | Martin Dosch | Yes | Yes |
| golang-github-mattn-go-xmpp | go xmpp library (library) | 0.0~git20211029.912ba61-2 (unstable) | Martin Dosch | Yes | Yes |
| x11-utils | X11 utilities | 7.7+5+nmu1 (unstable) | Thomas Dickey | Yes | Yes |
| luit | locale and ISO 2022 support for Unicode terminals | 2.0.20220111-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dickey | Yes | No |
| google-android-installers | Google's Android Auto Desktop Head Unit Emulator Installer | 1642086060 (UNRELEASED) | Fab Stz | Yes | Yes |
| synkron | Qt based application for synchronising folders | 1.6.2+r200+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Fab Stz | Yes | No |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| makemkv-oss | MakeMKV BD decryption API library | 1.16.5-3 (unstable) | Ben Westover | Yes | No |
| makemkv-bin | Proprietary components of makemkv | 1.16.5-3 (unstable) | Ben Westover | Yes | No |
| netperfmeter | Network Performance Meter (measurement program) | 1.8.6~rc2~bpo1+1 (buster-backports) 1.8.6~rc2.1-1~bpo10+1 (bullseye) |
Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| fcitx5-table-extra | Additional table based input method for Fcitx 5 | 5.0.7-1 (unstable) | Lu YaNing | Yes | No |
| sphinx-sitemap | Sphinx HTML extension to generate sitemaps | 2.2.0-3 (unstable) | Juri Grabowski | Yes | No |
| nemo-audio-tab | View audio tag information from Nemo's properties tab | 5.2.0-1 (unstable) | Joshua Peisach | Yes | No |
| lsb-release-minimal | Linux Standard Base version reporting utility (minimal implementation) | 0.2-2 (UNRELEASED) | Gioele Barabucci | Yes | No |
| fonts-lxgw-wenkai | Chinese font "LXGW WenKai"(also known as "xia wu wen kai", "xwwk") | 1.113+repack-1 (unstable) | xiao sheng wen（肖盛文） | Yes | No |
| su-exec | switch user and group id, setgroups and exec | 0.2-1 (UNRELEASED) | Matteo Chesi | Yes | No |
| opengnb | via P2P to setup de-centralized layer3 network VPN | 1.2.8.1-1 (unstable) | xiao sheng wen（肖盛文） | Yes | No |
| xbrzscale | Intelligent graphics file upscaling tool | 1.8+ds-1 (unstable) | Peter Blackman | Yes | No |
| gtkcrypto | GTK+ application for encrypting files and computing hashes | 1.0.0-1 (unstable) | Guilherme de Paula Xavier Segundo | Yes | No |
| nginx | small, powerful, scalable web/proxy server | 1.20.2-1+nmu1 (unstable) | Filip Chabik | Yes | Yes |
| guerillabackup | resilient, distributed backup and archiving solution | 0.1.1-1 (unstable) | halfdog | Yes | No |
| ibus-keymagic | keymagic engine for IBus | 1.4-1 (unstable) | kokoye2007 | Yes | No |
| libview | VMware's Incredibly Exciting Widgets | 0.6.6-3 (unstable) | Ileana Dumitrescu | Yes | Yes |
| prometheus-cpp | Prometheus Client Library for Modern C++ (push gateway support) | 1.0.0-1 (unstable) | Maksim Dmitrichenko Gregor Jasny | Yes | No |
| berry | Minimal window manager | 0.1.9-1 (unstable) | Yuri Musachio Montezuma da Cruz | Yes | No |
| kotlin-mode | Major mode for kotlin | 20210917git0-1 (unstable) | Joshua Peisach | Yes | No |