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This page collects statements of advocacy for Juan Manuel Méndez Rey <juan.mendezr@proton.me> to become a Debian Maintainer.

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For nm.debian.org, at 2026-09-26:
I support Juan Manuel Méndez Rey <juan.mendezr@proton.me>'s request to
become a Debian Maintainer. I have worked with Juan on sponsoring uploads
since 15 July 2026, and I consider them as having sufficient technical
competence. I sponsored nineteen uploads to unstable between 2026-07-15
and 2026-09-24: new Rust crates for browserslist and for the Stremio GTK4
shell, including DFSG repacks that rebuild browserslist data from Debian's
node packages, then stremio in main and stremio-server-installer in contrib.

I also reviewed the full history in UDD. There are 58 accepted uploads
under this address from 6 May 2026 through 25 September 2026, sponsored by
eight Debian Developers. The strongest of the rest is the xwpe rescue
(GCC 15 FTBFS, then upstream again, now in testing), siso, the testdisk
salvage, and the 25 September dart-sdk DFSG upload. Juan is Maintainer or
Uploader on 29 source packages in unstable, with no open RC bugs and no
lintian errors on the current versions. I have personally worked with
Juan Manuel Méndez Rey <juan.mendezr@proton.me>
(key 2A840ED00DE669F4219B8B3302A79E3B82151695) since 15 July 2026, and I
know Juan can be trusted to have upload rights for their own packages,
right now.

Signed with key 5C7A BEA2 0F86 3045 9CC8 C8B5 E27F 2CF8 458C 2FA4

tsimonq2

2026-09-26

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I support Juan Manuel Méndez Rey <juan.mendezr@proton.me>'s request to become a Debian Maintainer. I have worked with him on various chromium-related packaging things since around April 2025.

Juan wrote an interesting blog post (https://vejeta.com/packaging-chromium-embedded-framework-for-debian-a-technical-deep-dive/) about packaging CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework), which was originally how I became acquainted with him. I suggested that CEF become part of the official Chromium package, and while that hasn't happened yet (primarily due to lack of time on my part), he has been super patient and also has been helping out on chromium packaging. I suggested that he package Siso (which chromium uses), which he has done, and which will be helpful for chromium packaging down the line. As an example of technical expertise, here's work he did on attempting to fix chromium FTBFS on armhf due to 32-bit memory addressing issues: https://salsa.debian.org/chromium-team/chromium/-/merge_requests/45

I believe that he would be an asset to Debian, and should have upload rights.

Signed with key 5005 24F9 7D58 8932 23B3 5F6A 645D 0247 C36E 7637

dilinger

2026-09-30

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I worked together with Juan Manuel to salvage some packages.  I was
very happy about his work on the packages.  He has done a very good
job and I'm sure he has understood the principles of Debian.  I
would welcome if Juan Manuel would get DM upload permissions.

Signed with key F1F0 0732 0A03 5541 F0A6 63CA 578A 0494 D1C6 46D1

tille

2026-09-26

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Log

Date	Author	Action	Content	Public
2026-09-30 03:39	dilinger	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2026-09-30 03:39	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2026-09-26 22:00	tille	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2026-09-26 22:00	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes
2026-09-26 14:58	tsimonq2	add_statement	Added a new statement	yes
2026-09-26 14:58	nm@debian.org	req_approve	New statement received, the requirement seems satisfied	yes