Debian welcomes the 2026 GSoC interns

Abhijith PA
Sat, 02 May 2026 12:04:00 +0200
gsoc, announce

We are very excited to announce that Debian has been assigned seven contributors to work under mentorship on a variety of projects with us during the Google Summer of Code.

Here is a list of the projects and contributors, along with details of the tasks to be performed.

Project: Automated Debian Packaging with debianize

Contributor: Anurag Nayak

Deliverables of the project: Debianize is a tool that aims to automatically create debian packages from scratch from upstream source trees. As for the current version, it works for some of the packages but it is not reliable. This project aims at making it production ready such that it can work with most of the projects. Along with that improving its reliability, coverage, integration with the broader ecosystem and other enhancements.

Project: Linux Livepatching

Contributor: Aryan Karamtoth

Deliverables of the project: Linux Kernel Livepatching is the process of replacing functions in the kernel code affected by CVEs with the patch-applied functions during system runtime. It's basically a method to apply security kernel patches to a running system.

Project: DebNet: Visualising the Bus Factor – Graph Analysis of Debian's Infrastructure

Contributor: Fabio Ruhland

Deliverables of the project: DebNet models the Debian archive as a graph to identify critical packages maintained by too few people. Using data from the Ultimate Debian Database (UDD), it builds a package dependency graph and a maintainer-package graph to compute practical metrics like the Bus Factor, Fragility Score, and Dependency Impact for every source package.

Project: Attack of the Clones: Fight Back Using Code Duplication Detection From Security Patches

Contributor: Gajendra Nath Soren

Deliverables of the project: This project aims to detect vulnerable code clones in the Debian archive by automatically extracting signatures from security patches. Using a two-signal approach that separates vulnerable patterns from fix patterns, the system generates high-specificity queries to search the entire archive via Debian CodeSearch.

Project: Debusine: debuginfod server

Contributor: Jugal59

Deliverables of the project: This project implements a debuginfod-compatible server within Debusine to provide automated debug symbol resolution for Debian developers.

Project: Debian-LSP: Improve File Format Support

Contributor: Lucas Ly Ba

Deliverables of the project: The Debian LSP Language Server currently provides only basic features—field completion, parse-error diagnostics, and simple quick fixes—leaving Debian maintainers without the rich IDE experience available in other ecosystems.

Project: Debusine: live log streaming

Contributor: mo-ashraf

Deliverables of the project: Debusine currently only shows task logs after a task has fully completed. This means developers working with long-running jobs (such as package builds or test pipelines) have no way to monitor progress in real time or catch failures early. This project adds live log streaming to Debusine.

Congratulations and welcome to all the contributors!

The Google Summer of Code program is possible in Debian thanks to the efforts of Debian Developers and Debian Contributors that dedicate part of their free time to mentor contributors and outreach tasks.

Join us and help extend Debian! You can follow the contributors' weekly reports on the debian-outreach mailing-list, chat with us on our IRC channel or reach out to the individual projects' team mailing lists.