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The most important requirement for changing status in Debian is to make sure that a person actually intends to do so.

This requirement has been approved by Housekeeping Robot <nm@debian.org> 1 month, 3 weeks ago.

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I would like to update my status in Debian from `Debian Maintainer`
to `Debian Developer, uploading`.

<summary dm>
I have been contributing to Debian since 1999, and I have maintained
several packages, including `dvdauthor` [1] and `ogmtools` [2], for
many years.

I have also introduced Debian as an operating system for controllers
in several companies since 2008, establishing the build infrastructure
(mini-buildd, aptly/reprepro) and packaging most of the necessary software
[3][4]. This involves providing training and documentation on packaging
[5].
</summary dm>

Since being a Debian Maintainer, I have packaged `gdbuspp` [6] and
`openvpn3-client` [7], with several ITPs still open.

A large part of the systems I have been developing and maintaining are
using `GStreamer`. For these systems, I've been backporting the latest
stable `GStreamer` releases to the last Debian stable release. I guess
I've been doing that for 10-15 years [8][9].

Because of this experience, I have rolled into the GStreamer Maintainers
in Debian and I have been the main Debian package uploader for these
packages for about 18 months now [10].

With the release of trixie, it would make sense to contribute backport
work to `trixie-backports`.

Having upload rights would also avoid to be dependent on a single
developer in the GStreamer Team to grant upload rights, a situation that
resulted in us missing the trixie freeze for `gst-plugins-bad1.0-contrib`
due to key expiration from one of the usual uploaders [11].

As a contribution to the Debian quality checks I was able to contribute
a test for lintian [12].


[1]  https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=dvdauthor
[2]  https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ogmtools
[3]  https://www.barco.com/en/solutions/control-rooms
[4]  https://www.televic.com/en/televicgsp
[5]  https://www.televic.com/en/business-units/televic-group/news/image-based-upgrades-with-debian
[6]  https://salsa.debian.org/erpel/gdbuspp
[7]  https://salsa.debian.org/erpel/openvpn3-client
[8]  https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:den_erpel
[9]  https://salsa.debian.org/televic-team/gstreamer1.0/-/tree/debian/televic/bookworm/unstable?ref_type=heads
[10] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=marc.leeman%40gmail.com
[11] http://bugs.debian.org/1104875
[12] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/582

Signed with key 827C FD74 BA46 8152 A041 F3A0 7A6A 4F17 5995 A65B

erpel

2025-07-28

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2025-07-28 13:03	erpel	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2025-07-28 13:03	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes