I’m a Debian Maintainer now

Yesterday I became Debian Maintainer – two days after becoming MOTU. Now I can upload some packages to Debian, too.

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vrms meme

Here you are:
$ sudo apt-get install vrms
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
vrms
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/12.4kB of archives.
After this operation, 94,2kB of additional disk space will be used.
Segmentation fault
This is the first time I saw apt-get [...]

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I’m a MOTU now

After beeing 138 days (nearly five month) a Ubuntu Contributor I became a MOTU. Thanks to all people who have helped me, especially Daniel Holbach.

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Email usage statistic

A good week ago I tested Mozilla Thunderbird using IMAP. I created a statistic after seeing the mass of emails.

Emails
received
send
received / day
send / day

last week
902
334
128,86
47,71

last month
3728
589
120,26
19

last year
19377
1833
53,09
5,02

previous year
3070
434
8,41
1,19

The number of daily emails is continuously increasing. The last week was a peak of course. The average is probably something between the values of last year and [...]

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Sandwich makefile

If you like this comic from xkcd.com, you are now able to reproduce the conversation in your shell. You only need this makefile:
me a:
    @true
sandwich.:
ifeq ($(shell if touch / 2> /dev/null; then id -u; fi),0)
    @echo „Okay.“
else
    @echo „What? Make it yourself.“
endif
.PHONY: me a sandwich.
Download the Makefile from my sandwich branch or copy & paste the text above [...]

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