Debian work that I managed to do for this month:

- Updated 4 packages to their latest upstream versions
- Fixed a RC bug for python-bioframe
- Wrapped up the packaging of boost histogram and python asyncpraw (pending upload)
- fixed another RC bug with pyranges (pending upload)
- designed a few posters for MiniDebConf Kanpur
- More Kanpur organisation stuff like meetings and handling the website

Overall, my first month as a Debian Maintainer has been pretty productive so far

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@ravi congrats

@khubsuratinsaan @masukomi its common but not very common these days but totally depends on how conservative the place you live around is

@khubsuratinsaan damn, thats a lot of work for a site without any css

@niyabits I think they’re gonna train you to STOP THE DAMN TRAIN

@slp I used Windows as a main device until last month. Now I moved to macOS for the main. Windows is just a broken mess at this point. Full of AI bloat.

@khubsuratinsaan perks of reading my blog post yesterday /s

@khubsuratinsaan teach me senpai!

@contrapunctus let me guess, you’re the owner/admin of these channels too? :P At this point you own half of xmpp lol

@fbinin yeah I’m pretty tired of people boasting about our GDP over western countries but our quality of living has always been bad and is becoming worse. You’re constantly being pumped up with toxic metals and PM 2.5 just by living here. Our children are being born with deformities or dying prematurely due to cancers or living with respiratory diseases. Not a very sustainable state

@fbinin @amerpie gdp is growing pretty fast but the incomes aren’t. Growth is only for the rich, the common man in India still lives without proper access to things.

@vmbrasseur done

@khubsuratinsaan ignore the clowns. Honestly people should mind their own business. I wear those blue masks to college and I get a lot of “why are you wearing a mask?” Questions

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@kishy @fbinin I’m not distro hopping anymore or using anything other than debian because I do debian packaging now.

@fbinin the closest I got to arch was using manjaro but I didn’t like it. I’ve been on debian/ubuntu based distros for like 9 years now. Most of the Ubuntu ones had issues and would often break. Never had a single problem with debian.

I like the way how there’s a mass exodus of Windows users to Linux or MacOS and I’m glad to say that I’m one of them. Debian was the only distro that kept me around for over 7 months without distro hopping.

@werdahias @mirabilos I’m sure someone might be thinking about making a GR too ;) Your voice was heard