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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> 3 days, 9 hours ago.

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For nm.debian.org, at 2026-09-04:
I would like to aply to change my status in Debian to:
Debian Developer, uploading.

I have been a Debian Maintainer for 4 years, maintaining packages in
various languages, including:

- - archlinux-keyring: data files only
- - damo: Python
- - distribution-gpg-keys: data files only
- - distrobox: Bash
- - libkdumpfile: C
- - sugarjar: Ruby

There have been cases - esp with distrobox and sugarjar - where my packages
can't migrate because dependencies have serious bugs, and I feel like being
a full Developer would help unblock in these situations (not having to 
co-ordinate with a DD, and as a last resort, being able to do an NMU - I
hope not to have to use this often)

One of my packages, libkdumpfile, have undergone a reasonably complex
upgrade involving its Python bindings being split out into a separate
standalone source package, so I'm familiar with the process of using
experimental as well.

Last but not least, I have been an experienced Fedora packager for over
20 years - I've used Debian and Ubuntu as well on and off over the years
preceding becoming a DM and would increasingly like to commit to Debian 
for its democratic, non-corporate-backed structure.

I recently wrote dbranch as a tool to both streamline the process of updating
packages, and also getting them rebuilt in PPAs - I hope its --explain mode
is helpful in maintaining familiarity with Debian processes, as it walks the
user step by step through the whole process:

https://michel-slm.name/posts/2026-06-22-introducing-dbranch/

Signed with key 5DCE 2E7E 9C3B 1CFF D335 C1D7 8B22 9D2F 7CCC 04F2

michelin

2026-09-04

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Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2026-09-04 20:56	michelin	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2026-09-04 20:56	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes