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
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| buffybox | Touch-enabled framebuffer keyboard (not only) for vampire slayers | 3.2.0+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Undef | Yes | No |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| debpic | Build Debian packages in a docker container | 1.0.0 (unstable) | Aidan Gallagher | Yes | No |
| vimium | keyboard-based navigation and control (Firefox) | 2.1.2-1 (UNRELEASED) 2.1.2-1 (unstable) |
Andreas Altergott | Yes | No |
| purple-discord | Discord messaging service plugin for libpurple | 0.9.2024.09.29.git.32899c2-1 (unstable) | Patrick Zajda | Yes | Yes |
| golang-golang-x-oauth2 | Google APIs support for OAuth2 | 0.23.0-1 (unstable) | M Hickford | Yes | Yes |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aiolimiter | asyncio rate limiter, a leaky bucket implementation | 1.1.0-1 (unstable) | Yuri Konotopov | Yes | No |
| caio | Asynchronous file IO for Linux MacOS or Windows | 0.9.17-1 (unstable) | Yuri Konotopov | Yes | No |
| aiofile | Real asynchronous file operations with asyncio support | 3.8.8-1 (unstable) | Yuri Konotopov | Yes | No |
| apt-mirror2 | Python/asyncio reimplementation of the apt-mirror | 9-1 (unstable) | Yuri Konotopov | Yes | No |
| gxkb | X11 keyboard indicator and switcher | 0.9.6+ds-1 (unstable) | Mateusz Łukasik | Yes | Yes |
| ventoy | Create bootable USB drives for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files | 1.0.99-1 (unstable) | Manuel Guerra | Yes | No |
| emacs-oauth2 | OAuth 2.0 Authorization Protocol | 0.17-1 (unstable) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| quadrilateralcowboy | first-person cyberpunk adventure game | 0~20240909-1 (UNRELEASED) | James Addison | Yes | No |
| keyd | keyboard key remapping daemon | 2.5.0-1 (unstable) | Richard Hansen | Yes | No |
| reniced | renice running processes based on regular expressions | 1.23-1 (unstable) | Christian Garbs | Yes | Yes |
| emacs-dape | Debug Adapter Protocol for Emacs | 0.15.0-1 (unstable) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| python-google-ai-generativelanguage | Client for Generative Language API | 0.6.10-1 (unstable) | Dong Xu | Yes | No |
| log2ram | redirects log file writes into RAM | 1.7.2+ds-1 (unstable) | Steve Meliza | Yes | No |
| cpp-httplib | C++ HTTP/HTTPS server and client library - development files | 0.18.0+ds-1 (experimental) | Andrea Pappacoda | Yes | Yes |
| openmohaa | game engine for "Medal of Honor: Allied Assault" | 0.70.0+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Sébastien Noel | Yes | No |
| mdocml | BSD manpage compiler toolset - library | 1.14.6-2 (unstable) | Andrea Pappacoda | Yes | Yes |