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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mailmunge | Meta-package for the Mailmunge email filtering framework | 3.22-4 (stable) | Dianne Skoll | Yes | No |
| whatwg-html-build | tool to process Whatwg.org HTML 5 sources | 0.0~git20251112.283a353-1 (sid) | Fab Stz | Yes | No |
| libgourou | command-line tools for Adobe ADEPT e-books | 0.9-1 (unstable) | Jean Schurger | Yes | No |
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| libloc-database | ${source:Synopsis} | 0~20261104~1848-1 (unstable) | Valters Jansons | Yes | Yes |
| ladybug | Embedded graph database command-line client | 0.22.3-1 (unstable) | ally heev | Yes | No |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| taskhealth | Linux thread health monitoring (demo program) | 0.2.2-1 (unstable) | luhaoran | Yes | No |
| fresh-editor | terminal text editor with LSP support and TypeScript plugins | 0.5.8-1 (unstable) | Noam Lewis | Yes | No |
| swayfx | Sway, but with eye candy! | 0.6-1 (unstable) | Damian Daniel | Yes | No |
| tuiweathergirl | TUI Weathergirl | 2.0.0-1 (unstable) | Evgueni Antonov | Yes | No |
| gnunet | GNU's framework for secure peer-to-peer networking | 0.29.0-1 (experimental) | Syed Shahrukh Hussain | Yes | Yes |
| network-monitor | per-application network monitor with usage tracking and blocking | 1.0.9-3 (unstable) | asem shahen | Yes | No |
| fonts-wenyuan-rounded-otf-variable | WenYuan Rounded variable font for Simplified Chinese | 1.110-1 (unstable) | Jiuru | Yes | No |
| stimfit | Program for viewing and analyzing electrophysiological data | 0.17.4-1 (unstable) | Christoph Schmidt-Hieber | Yes | Yes |
| anonify | reversible network privacy hardening for Linux | 1.0.0-1 (unstable) | Rodrigo Vladimir Martinez Riffo | Yes | No |
| qiv | Quick image viewer for X | 3.0.4-1 (unstable) | Juan Pavon | Yes | Yes |
| tuxguitar | Multitrack guitar tablature editor and player | 1.6.6+dfsg1-3+deb13u1 (trixie) | Helmar Gerloni | Yes | Yes |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gui | terminal text editor with a classic menu interface | 1.0-1 (unstable) | Guillermo Petruzzi | Yes | No |
| gnome-shell-extension-clipdeck | clipboard history in the GNOME Shell top bar | 1.0.0-1 (unstable) | Subhadip Jana | Yes | No |
| systemd-hardening-helper | Automatic systemd service hardening guided by strace profiling | 2026.3.8-1 (UNRELEASED) 2026.3.8-1 (unstable) |
Igor Makarov | Yes | No |
| portablemc | command line utility for launching Minecraft | 5.0.6-1 (unstable) | Théo Rozier | Yes | No |
| netperfmeter | Network Performance Meter (measurement program) | 2.0.14-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | Yes |
| scandump | Command-line utility that writes Wi-Fi scan results in PCAP format | 2.3.0-1 (unstable) | Adrian Granados | Yes | No |
| alephone | open source continuation of Marathon game engine | 20260930-1 (unstable) | Anatoliy Gunya | Yes | No |
| nordstjernen-browser | web browser | 1.0.36+ds-1 (unstable) | Andreas Røsdal | Yes | No |
| northstar | minimalist GTK 4 web browser with an original engine | 1.0.16+ds-1 (unstable) | Andreas Røsdal | Yes | No |
| asl-assembler | ASL multi-target assembler | 1.42.311-2 (unstable) | Moshe Piekarski | Yes | No |
| flarespeed | terminal speed test against Cloudflare's network | 1.0.1-1 (unstable) | MOREAU Elliot | Yes | No |
| sentry-native | Sentry SDK for C, C++ and native applications - development files | 0.17.4+ds-1 (unstable) | Roman Ondráček | Yes | No |
| myanon | mysqldump anonymizer | 0.8.8-1 (unstable) | Pierre POMES | Yes | No |
| t-code-ide | lightweight C/C++ IDE | 0.4.2-1 (unstable) | suacayipkisi | Yes | No |
| u-boot-pylib | Python library used by U-Boot tools such as patman and buildman | 0.1.0-1 (unstable) | Simon Glass | Yes | No |
| phoinixdr | data-recovery engine - command-line tool | 0.1.8-1 (unstable) | Matt Barry | Yes | No |
| ys | Real-time folder syncing multiplayer sandbox CLI tool | 1.0.0-1 (unstable) | LinuxTetra | Yes | No |
| adwsteamgtk | Simple Gtk wrapper for Adwaita-for-Steam | 0.9.1-1 (unstable) | Aryan Karamtoth | Yes | No |
| cine | GTK4 video player based on libmpv | 1.8.8-1 (unstable) | Aryan Karamtoth | Yes | No |
| hosty | desktop app for creating and managing Minecraft servers | 1.9.0-1 (unstable) | Aryan Karamtoth | Yes | No |
| odr-dabmod | DAB modulator compliant to ETSI EN 300 401 | 3.2.1+ds-1~bpo13+1 (trixie-backports) | Robin Alexander | Yes | Yes |
| odr-padenc | This is an encoder for Programme Associated Data | 3.1.0-2~bpo13+1 (trixie-backports) | Robin Alexander | Yes | Yes |
| poco | C++ Portable Components (POCO) Zip library | 1.15.4-1 (unstable) | Iliya Abolghasemi | Yes | Yes |
| portop | interactive TCP and UDP port and process monitor | 0.1.0+git20261014.6772ea7-1 (UNRELEASED) | Luca Padovan | Yes | No |
| fnlfmt | Code formatter for Fennel | 0.4.0-1 (unstable) | Michel Lind | Yes | No |
| sapi | SaltStack salt-api hybrid CLI client and Full-Access MCP Server | 1.0.0-1 (unstable) | laurent LABATUT | Yes | No |