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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xfel | Tiny FEL tools for Allwinner SOC. | 1.3.5-1 (unstable) | Han Gao | Yes | No |
| rocm-hipamd | AMD ROCm implementation of the OpenCL API - ICD runtime | 7.2.3-1~exp1 (experimental) | Talha Can Havadar | Yes | Yes |
| rasqal | Documentation for the Rasqal RDF Query library | 0.9.33-4 (unstable) | Ahmed Alaoui | Yes | Yes |
| sos | Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system | 4.11.1-2~bpo13+1 (trixie-backports) | Bryan Fraschetti | Yes | Yes |
| ruby-chef-utils | Basic utility functions for Core Chef Infra development | 19.2.12-0.1 (unstable) | Norwid Behrnd | Yes | Yes |
| gnomint | X.509 Certification Authority management tool for GNOME | 1.5.1-1 (unstable) | Haolin Xue | Yes | Yes |
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| esbmc | Efficient SMT-based Context-Bounded Model Checker | 8.3.0+dfsg-4 (unstable) | Weiqi Wang | Yes | No |
| labwc-menu-generator | Menu generator for labwc | 0.2.0-1 (unstable) | Nikolas Nyby | Yes | No |
| labwc-tweaks | A configuration tool for labwc | 0.1.0-1 (unstable) | Nikolas Nyby | Yes | No |
| xcalib | Tiny monitor calibration loader for Xorg | 0.9.dfsg1-1 (sid) | taro-k | Yes | Yes |
| td-system-tools | Transitional package td-system-tools -> td-system-tools-basic | 2.7.2-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| pekwm | very light window manager | 0.4.4-2 (unstable) | Timothy Gaskell | Yes | Yes |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libmatio | MATLAB MAT File I/O Library - command-line tools | 1.5.30-3 (unstable) | Kirill Rekhov | Yes | Yes |
| xml-core | XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support | 0.21 (unstable) | Ahmed Alaoui | Yes | Yes |
| netperfmeter | Network Performance Meter (measurement program) | 2.0.5-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| uwsgi | fast, self-healing application container server | 2.0.31-5 (unstable) | Alexandre Rossi | Yes | Yes |
| cephtrace | cephtrace tools help investigating Ceph performance bottlenecks | 1.5-1 (unstable) | Alan Baghumian | Yes | No |
| opentk | Open Toolkit wrapper for OpenGL, OpenAL and OpenCL - Docs | 1.1.4c+dfsg-4 (unstable) | Monty | Yes | Yes |
| quickroute-gps | GPS analysis software for getting your route on the map | 2.5-2 (unstable) | Monty Kristóf Ralovich | Yes | Yes |
| gammastep | Adjust display hue to outside lighting conditions | 2.0.11-1 (unstable) | Karol Werner | Yes | Yes |
| play.it-vv221 | ./play.it collection - vv221ʼs games collection | 2026-04-17-1~bpo13+1 (trixie-backports) | Aryan Karamtoth | Yes | Yes |
| tremc | ncurses interface for the Transmission BitTorrent daemon | 0.9.6-1 (unstable) | Francisco Mariano Neto | Yes | Yes |
| log4net | highly configurable logging API for the CLI | 1.2.10+dfsg-10 (unstable) | Monty | Yes | Yes |
| pkgfinder | lightweight terminal tool to find system packages | 1.0-3 (unstable) | Gideon Laurie | Yes | No |
| hwatch | modern alternative to the watch command with history and diff views | 0.4.2-2 (unstable) | Naofumi Uesugi | Yes | Yes |
| dynmhs | Dynamic Multi-Homing Setup (DynMHS) | 0.3.3-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| antpm | ANT+ information retrieval client for Garmin GPS products | 1.25-1 (unstable) | Kristóf Ralovich | Yes | Yes |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libhtmlunit-csp-java | Library for working with Content Security Policy policies | 4.22.0-1 (unstable) | Fab Stz | Yes | No |
| suika3 | Portable 2D game scripting runtime (metapackage) | 26.05.15+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Awe Morris | Yes | No |
| noct | tiny programming language for sandboxed scripting | 1.0.24-1 (unstable) | Awe Morris | Yes | No |
| ifrench-gut | French dictionary for ispell (GUTenberg version) | 1:1.0-33 (unstable) | Luiz Georg | Yes | Yes |
| libhx | Documentation files for libhx | 5.4-1 (unstable) | Jörg Frings-Fürst | Yes | Yes |
| argagg | Argument Aggregator - Simple C++11 command line argument parser - source doc | 0.4.7-5 (unstable) | Iliya Abolghasemi | Yes | Yes |
| playfield | 2D game scripting runtime with Ray language sandbox | 1.0.13+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Awe Morris | Yes | No |
| srek | Text processing and manipulation language, similar to sed | 1.1-2 (unstable) | Nikolas Fischer Soley | Yes | No |
| libjs-jush | JavaScript Syntax Highlighter | 2.2.0-1 (unstable) | Alexandre Rossi | Yes | Yes |
| girlfriend | Funny romantic virtual girlfriend assistant for Linux terminal users | 3.0.0-1 (unstable) | benjamin | Yes | No |
| imsprog | Linux chip programmer for CH341A/CH347T devices | 1.8.4-1 (unstable) 1.8.3+ds-1 (UNRELEASED) |
Mikhail Medvedev | Yes | Yes |
| uriparser | documentation files for uriparser | 1.0.1+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Jörg Frings-Fürst | Yes | Yes |
| acr | autoconf like tool | 2.2.6-1 (unstable) | Akash Doppalapudi | Yes | Yes |
| yetty | Serial port log viewer for embedded development | 0.1.5-1 (unstable) | Arjun AK | Yes | No |
| python-plantuml | remote client interface to plantuml server | 0.3.0+git20191101.173cd86-1 (UNRELEASED) | Alex | Yes | No |
| w-scan-cpp | DVB channel scanner (successor of w_scan) | 20260515+dfsg-1 (unstable) | Apostolos Kefalas | Yes | Yes |
| ruby-heitt | Hash Extraction, Identification and Triage Tool. | 0.4.5-4 (experimental) | Jonathan Botchway Owusu | Yes | No |
| openmoneybox | Budget management application | 3.5.1-10 (unstable) | ClownyRaven | Yes | No |
| python3-eduvpn-client | eduVPN client (Python 3) | 4.7.2-1 (unstable) | Ganesh Menon | Yes | No |
| python3-eduvpn-common | Python wrapper for the eduVPN common library | 5.0.2-1 (unstable) | Ganesh Menon | Yes | No |
| wireless-tools | Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extensions | 30~pre9-22 (unstable) | Ahmed Alaoui | Yes | Yes |
| complexity | tool for analyzing the complexity of C program functions | 1.13-2 (unstable) | Boian Bonev | Yes | Yes |
| gteatime | lightweight GTK3 system-tray tea and coffee timer | 1.0.2-1 (unstable) | J. A. Corbal | Yes | No |
| premake4 | cross-platform build script generator | 4.3+repack1-4 (unstable) | Iliya Abolghasemi | Yes | Yes |
| libfilezilla | build high-performing platform-independent programs (runtime lib) | 0.55.5-1 (unstable) | Michael Lloyd | Yes | Yes |
| fzssh | SSH/SFTP library based on libfilezilla (development files) | 1.2.1-1 (unstable) | Michael Lloyd | Yes | No |
| filezilla | Full-featured graphical FTP/FTPS/SFTP client | 3.70.4-1 (unstable) | Michael Lloyd | Yes | Yes |
| sanlock | Shared storage lock manager | 5.1.0-1 (unstable) | Håvard F. Aasen | Yes | Yes |
| storebackup | fancy compressing managing checksumming deduplicating hard-linking cp -ua | 3.5.2-2 (unstable) | Syed Shahrukh Hussain | Yes | Yes |
| simplesamlphp | Authentication and federation application supporting several protocols | 2.1.8-0.1 (unstable) | Nikolas Nyby | Yes | Yes |
| sc-controller | User-mode driver, mapper and GTK3 GUI for game controllers | 0.5.5-1 (unstable) | Michael Lloyd | Yes | No |