Debian is a large organization and there are a lot of ways to contact it. This page will summarize the often requested means of contacting; it is by no means exhaustive. Please refer to the rest of the web pages for other contact methods.
Please note that most of the e-mail addresses below represent open mailing lists with public archives. Read the \ disclaimer before sending any messages.
English language is the common language for communication with Debian developers. We therefore ask that initial enquiries to developers be made in English. If this is not possible, go through the user mailing list for your language.
Most of the information about Debian is collected on our web site, https://www.debian.org/, so please browse and search through it before contacting us.
Our FAQ will answer many of your questions.
Questions regarding the Debian Project in general can be sent to the
debian-project mailing list, at
If you are certain the documentation on the installation media and on our
web site doesn't have a solution to your problem, there's a very active user
mailing list where Debian users and developers can answer your questions,
the debian-user mailing list.
All questions regarding
Additionally, there are user mailing lists for speakers of various
languages. See the subscription info
for international mailing lists.
Furthermore, you can browse our mailing lists as newsgroups using a web
interface, such as Google.
If you think you've found a bug in our installation system, send
information about it to
Those requesting information for articles or submitting news for our
news page should contact our publicity
department.
Invitations for conferences and
exhibitions or other type of events should be sent to events department. Requests for
flyers, posters and participation in Europe should be sent to the
European events
list. If you would like to contact Debian to offer help, please see the
possible ways of helping first.
If you would like to maintain a Debian mirror, see the pages about
mirroring Debian. New mirrors are submitted using
this form. Problems with existing mirrors
can be reported at If you would like to sell Debian CDs, see the \
information for CD vendors. To get listed on the CD vendor list, please
do so using this form.
If you would like to file a bug against a Debian package, we have a bug
tracking system where you can easily report your problem. Please read the
instructions for filing bug reports.
If you simply want to communicate with the maintainer of a Debian
package, then you can use the special mail aliases set up for each package.
Any mail sent to <package name>@packages.debian.org will be
forwarded to the maintainer responsible for that package.
If you would like to make the developers aware of a Debian security
problem in a discreet manner, send e-mail to
If you have questions that are more development related, there are
several development mailing lists
in Debian that you can use to contact our developers.
The general development mailing list is debian-devel: you can
subscribe to it and
then send e-mail to
To report a problem with a Debian service, you can usually
report a bug against the appropriate
pseudo-package.
Alternatively, you can use e-mail to contact them.
Debian is a community of people who value respect and dialog. If
you are a victim of any behaviour that harms you or feel you have been
harassed, whether it is during a conference or sprint organised by the
project, or through general project interactions, please contact the
Community Team at: We also have a complete list of different
jobs and e-mails to use to contact various parts of the organization.
Installing and Using Debian
should be sent to that list.
Simply subscribe to
debian-user and send your question to
Publicity / Press
Events / Conferences
Helping Debian
Reporting problems in Debian packages
Debian Development
Problems with Debian infrastructure
Harassment issues