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This page collects statements of advocacy for Darshaka Pathirana <dpat@syn-net.org> to become a Debian Maintainer, with guest account.

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For nm.debian.org, at 2026-08-06:
I support Darshaka Pathirana <dpat@syn-net.org>'s request
to become a Debian Maintainer (with guest account).

I know Darshaka Pathirana in person for ~20 years,
and work with him both in our professional/work life (for more than 12 years),
as well as in the Grml project (being a Debian based live system) for many years.

I sponsored several of the package uploads for Darshaka,
he has sufficient technical competence.

Darshaka is active in the open source community (also locally where we leave),
and I'd like to see him also as official member of the Debian project.

I have personally worked with Darshaka Pathirana <dpat@syn-net.org>
(key 8DF2271871E57DA5714C8EDE9BB6983DDD81AFEB) for >12 years,
and I know Darshaka Pathirana can be trusted to have upload rights
for their own packages, right now.

Signed with key 33CC B136 401A FEC8 43A3 8763 96A8 7872 B7EA 3737

mika

2026-08-06

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2026-08-06 01:38	mika	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2026-08-06 01:38	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes