-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 For nm.debian.org, at 2025-09-21: I support Ben Westover 's request to become a Debian Developer, uploading. I know Ben primarily through his work on packaging the MakeMKV application. Several years ago I had begun that packaging work; since it hasn't yet entered the Debian archive (an ITP does exist[0]), I had been hosting the debs on my personal apt repo for others to use. About 3.5 years ago I agreed to let Ben take custody of the MakeMKV packaging, which he has done using salsa.d.o to host two git repositories[1]. He currently hosts the debs on his website[2]. Since then he has consistently done a good job keeping the packaging up to date, adjusting to upstream changes, and performing manual rebuilds when a dependency (such as ffmpeg) changes in the Debian archive (something that would automatically be covered by a binNMU normally if the MakeMKV packaging was in the archive). He has demonstrated good understanding of both technical packaging details as well as Debian Policy. In both personal and public interactions with Ben, I have found him to be knowledgeable, willing to accept advice on how to improve his packaging work, and polite. I trust Ben's packaging work; perhaps the greatest demonstration of this is that I have installed and used the MakeMKV packages he produces on my personal machine. Given my observations of Ben in the wider Debian community and our interactions around the MakeMKV packaging work over the past ~4 years, I know Ben Westover can be trusted to be a full member of Debian, and have unsupervised, unrestricted upload rights, right now. Mathias [0] -- https://bugs.debian.org/1003815, https://bugs.debian.org/1005075 [1] -- https://salsa.debian.org/BenTheTechGuy/makemkv-oss, https://salsa.debian.org/BenTheTechGuy/makemkv-bin [2] -- https://apt.benthetechguy.net/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE1Bp60H32xfynSJ8cKe7i1uz0QvkFAmjP9lsACgkQKe7i1uz0 QvlsuBAArktY2yPAeeUUPyP54A+GHMShEdd1tWixA7NkbQNir+XBsT/Vod7n4WXD GIHYcz8wSitH/ss8majfwic6jaU73ir31Te2lHnAprQujC42IAM92b/wfMnaYK8n QJB0M/eOqFto8CXJ/0tSllRUtKEwLDIu4So6PUQIp8bcuZr1OhaWQ8MKQlHScBDT adYIsiq1F7FHqM45z5noNZ6eJ/ZF8btfs8qcu+F05a0Fd855awIfKEbs0oIdta7k Mo0KW5GKsP5izJMbt8lm48jqozUwhcgYHvIluaZqut/1xL9JQFCJG8I24nbh94lx uo70j1aEFFF92G1DV+HuVRAYsEcmR68UDkD/2Ksm7QpRf1JVp2q07FI+uhMnRAiG IypYV3eA6mPHchhVAHJjYdVuy3YCxLMyue2lcCRnIOeKVUJ4M6wPfJvJHkZh9Jv0 ZCddRQ7MT9x4Delif6ZR8WUc1HjpvhEQQ5VWF5QyvzZCRV4/i2i83OdK5bddVgNp P6sxezgnpSUmVvekRg88D7cREzu09rD3rmnnwk5DnGpH8Qr2DAcdlthMzaK8Diuo TDpjAtwF1+KYpxylXikklTYnLUGgQn8JejEO0EuzRkMVkmMnrLaCjqIOQcoQcf7N jUFL/Dm1m3bGtDyJVEw95pJSS1aidOGF9KlVo9ZfmqFfaCfwM1s= =bXgR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----