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I support Marc Leeman <marc.leeman@gmail.com>'s request to become a Debian Developer, uploading.
I have worked with Marc Leeman in Barco, 2016-2019, and during that time we both worked on setting up a quite sophisticated Debian-based packaging and autobuilder infrastrure. Marc was responsible for maintaining such infrastructure for many years after my time in the company. Marc was one of the few people that insisted on doing the Debian packages the proper way, following Debian Policy and checking the licenses of each package, split dependencies into Debian packages and providing a proper installer. 

But he is not just a user of Debian, he is a regular contributor and Maintainer, particularly active in the GStreamer community and already uploading such packages regularly in Debian.

Marc is a developer that understands the Debian philosophy of doing things and I would definitely consider him an worthy asset for Debian. 

I have personally worked with Marc Leeman <marc.leeman@gmail.com>
(key 827CFD74BA468152A041F3A07A6A4F175995A65B) for 4 years, and I know Marc Leeman can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.

Signed with key 3FC3 7391 FECD D3CB 5501 7121 6606 027F 6437 124C

markos

2025-07-30

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For nm.debian.org, at 2025-07-30:
I support Marc Leeman <marc.leeman@gmail.com>'s request to become a Debian Developer, uploading.
I have worked with Marc Leeman on ogmtools for 4 years, sponsoring his uploads, and I consider 
him as having sufficient technical competence.

Marc has shown consistency and care in his maintenership of Debian packages. He 
has been involved in open source project for a long time, showing passion and
proficiency. 

I have personally worked with Marc Leeman <marc.leeman@gmail.com>
(key 827CFD74BA468152A041F3A07A6A4F175995A65B) for 4 years, and I know Marc Leeman
can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now.

Signed with key 8D48 5A35 FF1E 6EB7 90E5 0F6D 0284 F20C 2BA9 7CED

luigi

2025-07-30

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2025-07-30 18:45	markos	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2025-07-30 18:45	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2025-07-30 15:03	luigi	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2025-07-30 15:03	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes