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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| imsprog | Linux chip programmer for CH341a devices | 1.6.2-1 (unstable) | Mikhail Medvedev | Yes | Yes |
| d++ | C++ Discord API Bot Library - documentation | 10.1.2+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Ben Westover | Yes | No |
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tmatrix | program that simulates the digital rain from The Matrix | 1.4-1 (experimental) | Ravi Kant Sharma | Yes | No |
| play.it-platform | ./play.it collection - Platform games | 2025-07-01-1 (unstable) | Antoine Le Gonidec | Yes | No |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hipblas-common | Header-only common library for hipBLAS and hipBLASLt | 6.4.0-1 (unstable) | Spaarsh Thakkar | Yes | Yes |
| sff | Simple, fast, friendly terminal file manager | 1.1-1 (unstable) | Shi Yanling | Yes | No |
| kernel-hardening-checker | Tool for checking Linux kernel security hardening options | 0.6.10.1-1 (unstable) | Kirill Rekhov | Yes | No |
| python-junit-xml | creates JUnit XML test result docs readable by tools such as Jenkins (py3k) | 1.9-6 (unstable) | Gabriel Barrantes | Yes | Yes |
| atari-rpi | USB to Atari mouse adapter for Raspberry Pi | 1.0-1 (unstable) | Jérôme SONRIER | Yes | No |
| golang-github-offchainlabs-go-bitfield | bytes abstractions to represent list of bits (library) | 0.0~git20250408.ad7364d-1 (UNRELEASED) 0.0~git20250408.ad7364d-2 (unstable) |
Leonardo Arias Fonseca | Yes | No |
| html2text | advanced HTML to text converter | 2.2.3-4 (unstable) | Bruno Naibert de Campos | Yes | Yes |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| human-theme-gtk | human theme for GTK | 2.5.0-1 (experimental) | Fabrice Creuzot | Yes | No |
| devilutionx | diablo build for modern operating systems | 1.5.4+ds2-1 (unstable) | Kirill Rekhov | Yes | No |
| td-system-tools | Metapackage for system information and maintenance tools | 2.1.2-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| hipercontracer | High-Performance Connectivity Tracer (HiPerConTracer) | 2.1.0-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| emacs-gptel | Interact with ChatGPT or other LLMs in Emacs | 0.9.8.5-1 (unstable) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| ydotool | Command-line automation tool - cli | 1.0.4-1 (unstable) | Andre Paiusco | Yes | Yes |
| rgbds | Game Boy assembly toolchain | 0.9.2-1 (unstable) | Sébastien Noel | Yes | No |
| recastnavigation | Software implementation of Recast Navigation (shared library) | 1.6.0+dfsg-2 (unstable) | Bret Curtis | Yes | Yes |
| gnome-dosage | Keep track of your treatments | 1.9.9-1 (unstable) | Danial Behzadi | Yes | No |
| golang-github-segmentio-asm | Go library with algorithms optimized for modern CPUs | 1.2.0+git20231107.1cfacc8-1 (unstable) | Raul Tambre | Yes | No |
| uwsm | Wayland session manager for standalone compositors | 0.22.0+ds-1 (experimental) | Carl Keinath | Yes | No |
| emacs-geiser-guile | Guile and Geiser talk to each other | 0.28.3-1 (unstable) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| emacs-geiser-racket | Support for Racket in Geiser | 0.16-1 (unstable) | Xiyue Deng | Yes | No |
| sfp-master | Free software programmer of optical SFP modules for CH341a devices | 1.0.6-1 (unstable) | Mikhail Medvedev | Yes | No |
| foomuuri | multizone bidirectional nftables firewall | 0.28-1 (unstable) | Kim B. Heino | Yes | Yes |
| duckdb | in-process SQL OLAP database management system | 1.3.1-1 (unstable) | Mocus Zhang | Yes | No |