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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| clipboard | Smart Clipboard Manager | 0.10.0-1 (unstable) 0.10.0-1 (UNRELEASED) |
Kirill Rekhov | Yes | No |
| adminer | Web-based database administration tool | 5.1.0-1 (unstable) | Alexandre Rossi | Yes | Yes |
| runit-services | UNIX init scheme with service supervision (services) | 0.9.0 (unstable) | Lorenzo Puliti | Yes | Yes |
Yesterday
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| adwaita-fonts | Adwaita Fonts Collection | 48.2-1 (unstable) | Kirill Rekhov | Yes | No |
| yuma123 | NETCONF/YANG simple client applications development files | 2.14-1 (unstable) | Vladimir Vassilev | Yes | Yes |
| nginx-snippets | Useful, commonly used nginx configuration snippets | 1.0 (unstable) | Thomas Ward | Yes | No |
| batsignal | Lightweight battery daemon written in C | 1.8.0-1 (unstable) | itd | Yes | No |
| notifymuch | Display desktop notifications for unread mail in notmuch database | 0.1~git20151223.0.9d4aaf5-1 (unstable) | itd | Yes | No |
Some days ago
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xsd | XML Data Binding for C++ | 4.0.0-10 (unstable) | Jörg Frings-Fürst | Yes | Yes |
| composefs | mechanism for stacking read-only filesystems (tools) | 1.0.8-1 (unstable) | Roland Hieber | Yes | No |
| grub-imageboot | boot iso, harddisk and floppy images with grub2 and syslinux memdisk | 0.6+nmu3 (unstable) | наб | Yes | Yes |
| runit | system-wide service supervision | 2.2.0-2 (unstable) | Lorenzo Puliti | Yes | Yes |
| python-argon2-cffi-bindings | Low-level CFFI bindings for the Argon2 password hashing library | 21.2.0-1 (experimental) | Carl Keinath | Yes | No |
Older packages
| Package | Description | Version | Uploader | Needs a sponsor | Already in Debian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| python-certbot-dns-luadns | Documentation for the LuaDNS Authenticator plugin for Certbot | 2.11.0-1 (unstable) | Chris Chancellor | Yes | No |
| aquamarine | Light-weight rendering library for Linux (binary files) | 0.7.2-1 (unstable) | Alan M Varghese | Yes | No |
| odr-audioenc | DAB and DAB+ encoder that integrates into the ODR-mmbTools | 3.6.0-2~bpo12+1 (bookworm-backports) | Robin Alexander | Yes | Yes |
| sanlock | Shared storage lock manager | 3.9.5-1 (unstable) | Håvard F. Aasen | Yes | Yes |
| python-enaml | Declarative DSL for building rich user interfaces in Python (documentation) | 0.18.0-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| python-enamlx | Additional Qt Widgets for Enaml | 0.6.4-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| td-system-tools | Metapackage for system information and maintenance tools | 2.0.8-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| apt-mirror2 | Python/asyncio reimplementation of the apt-mirror | 12-1 (unstable) | Yuri Konotopov | Yes | No |
| redwax-tool | Read certificates and keys from your chosen sources, filter the certificates | 0.9.7-4 (UNRELEASED) 0.9.9-1 (unstable) |
Graham Leggett | Yes | No |
| inkcut | GUI for controlling vinyl cutters | 2.1.5-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| somefetch | Simple fetch tool for Unix-like systems | 0.2.1-1 (unstable) | Maksim Bengraf | Yes | No |
| wireguard-initramfs | WireGuard initramfs integration | 2025.03.02-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| justbuild | Generic build system | 1.5.0-1 (unstable) | Oliver Reiche | Yes | Yes |
| libjs-jush | JavaScript Syntax Highlighter | 2.1.2-1 (unstable) | Alexandre Rossi | Yes | Yes |
| python-simple-pid | Simple and easy-to-use PID controller - documentation | 2.0.1-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| hyprland-protocols | Wayland protocol extensions for Hyprland | 0.6.2-1 (unstable) | Alan M Varghese | Yes | Yes |
| libhyprcursor | hyprland cursor format, library and utilities (headers) | 0.1.11-1 (unstable) | Alan M Varghese | Yes | Yes |
| hyprwayland-scanner | Implementation of wayland-scanner for Hyprland | 0.4.4-1 (unstable) | Alan M Varghese | Yes | Yes |
| libonig | regular expressions library — development files | 6.9.10-1 (unstable) | Jörg Frings-Fürst | Yes | Yes |
| kildclient | powerful MUD client with a built-in Perl interpreter | 3.2.3-1 (unstable) | Eduardo M KALINOWSKI | Yes | Yes |
| atinout | Send AT commands to modem, capture the responses | 0.9.1+git20150607.4976a6c-1 (unstable) | Jongmin Kim | Yes | No |
| turtle | Nautilus extension for Turtle | 0.12.1-1 (unstable) | Philipp Unger | Yes | No |
| libkdumpfile | Kernel coredump file access | 0.5.5-1 (experimental) | Michel Lind | Yes | Yes |
| gallia | Extendable Pentesting Framework | 2.0.0a3-1 (UNRELEASED) | Stefan Tatschner | Yes | No |
| dynmhs | Dynamic Multi-Homing Setup (DynMHS) | 0.2.0-1 (unstable) | Thomas Dreibholz | Yes | No |
| sfp-master | Free software programmer of optical SFP modules for CH341a devices | 1.0.6-1 (unstable) | Mikhail Medvedev | Yes | No |
| rgbds | Game Boy assembly toolchain | 0.9.1-1 (unstable) | Sébastien Noel | Yes | No |
| hyprutils | Utilities used across the Hyprland ecosystem (library) | 0.5.1-1 (unstable) | Alan M Varghese | Yes | Yes |
| human-theme-gtk | human theme for GTK | 2.2.1-1 (experimental) | Fabrice Creuzot | Yes | No |
| python-radexreader | reader for the RADEX RD1212 and ONE Geiger counters (CLI) | 1.2.5-1 (experimental) | Fabrice Creuzot | Yes | No |
| awf-gtk | theme preview application for GTK 4 | 2.8.1-1 (unstable) | Fabrice Creuzot | Yes | Yes |
| fpart | sort file trees and pack them into bags | 1.7.0-1 (unstable) | martymac | Yes | Yes |
| python-atom | Memory efficient Python objects (documentation) | 0.11.0-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| python-pegen | CPython's PEG parser generator (documentation) | 0.3.0-1 (unstable) | Alexander Sulfrian | Yes | No |
| vulkanscenegraph | 3D vulkan scene graph, shared libs | 1.1.10-1 (unstable) | Bret Curtis | Yes | No |