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15 <a href=
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23 <div class=
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24 <div class=
"date"> 7th April
2016</div>
25 <div class=
"body"><p>Just for fun I had a look at the popcon number of ZFS related
26 packages in Debian, and was quite surprised with what I found. I use
27 ZFS myself at home, but did not really expect many others to do so.
28 But I might be wrong.
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31 <a href=
"https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=spl-linux">the popcon
32 results for spl-linux
</a>, there are
1019 Debian installations, or
33 0.53% of the population, with the package installed. As far as I know
34 the only use of the spl-linux package is as a support library for ZFS
35 on Linux, so I use it here as proxy for measuring the number of ZFS
36 installation on Linux in Debian. In the kFreeBSD variant of Debian
37 the ZFS feature is already available, and there
38 <a href=
"https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=zfsutils">the popcon
39 results for zfsutils
</a> show
1625 Debian installations or
0.84% of
40 the population. So I guess I am not alone in using ZFS on Debian.
</p>
42 <p>But even though the Debian project leader Lucas Nussbaum
43 <a href=
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00006.html">announced
44 in April
2015</a> that the legal obstacles blocking ZFS on Debian were
45 cleared, the package is still not in Debian. The package is again in
46 the NEW queue. Several uploads have been rejected so far because the
47 debian/copyright file was incomplete or wrong, but there is no reason
48 to give up. The current status can be seen on
49 <a href=
"https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-zfsonlinux-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the
50 team status page
</a>, and
51 <a href=
"http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-zfsonlinux/zfs.git">the
52 source code
</a> is available on Alioth.
</p>
54 <p>As I want ZFS to be included in next version of Debian to make sure
55 my home server can function in the future using only official Debian
56 packages, and the current blocker is to get the debian/copyright file
57 accepted by the FTP masters in Debian, I decided a while back to try
58 to help out the team. This was the background for my blog post about
59 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html">creating,
60 updating and checking debian/copyright semi-automatically
</a>, and I
61 used the techniques I explored there to try to find any errors in the
62 copyright file. It is not very easy to check every one of the around
63 2000 files in the source package, but I hope we this time got it
64 right. If you want to help out, check out the git source and try to
65 find missing entries in the debian/copyright file.
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68 <div class=
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<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
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"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ruter">ruter (
5)
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448 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/scraperwiki">scraperwiki (
2)
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450 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (
53)
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452 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (
4)
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454 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (
5)
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456 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (
55)
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458 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (
6)
</a></li>
460 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (
12)
</a></li>
462 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (
52)
</a></li>
464 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin (
4)
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466 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/usenix">usenix (
2)
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468 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (
9)
</a></li>
470 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/verkidetfri">verkidetfri (
5)
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472 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (
59)
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474 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (
4)
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476 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (
40)
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