X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/c250d24ae3bf1482302af2c9838365b4b76a2576..c7856f0988d8b4ea27e2e63f439c6a83e534698a:/blog/archive/2016/04/04.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2016/04/04.rss b/blog/archive/2016/04/04.rss index 43acf171fb..8b7252ac71 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2016/04/04.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2016/04/04.rss @@ -6,6 +6,55 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + One in two hundred Debian users using ZFS on Linux? + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/One_in_two_hundred_Debian_users_using_ZFS_on_Linux_.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/One_in_two_hundred_Debian_users_using_ZFS_on_Linux_.html + Thu, 7 Apr 2016 22:30:00 +0200 + <p>Just for fun I had a look at the popcon number of ZFS related +packages in Debian, and was quite surprised with what I found. I use +ZFS myself at home, but did not really expect many others to do so. +But I might be wrong.</p> + +<p>According to +<a href="https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=spl-linux">the popcon +results for spl-linux</a>, there are 1019 Debian installations, or +0.53% of the population, with the package installed. As far as I know +the only use of the spl-linux package is as a support library for ZFS +on Linux, so I use it here as proxy for measuring the number of ZFS +installation on Linux in Debian. In the kFreeBSD variant of Debian +the ZFS feature is already available, and there +<a href="https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=zfsutils">the popcon +results for zfsutils</a> show 1625 Debian installations or 0.84% of +the population. So I guess I am not alone in using ZFS on Debian.</p> + +<p>But even though the Debian project leader Lucas Nussbaum +<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/04/msg00006.html">announced +in April 2015</a> that the legal obstacles blocking ZFS on Debian were +cleared, the package is still not in Debian. The package is again in +the NEW queue. Several uploads have been rejected so far because the +debian/copyright file was incomplete or wrong, but there is no reason +to give up. The current status can be seen on +<a href="https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-zfsonlinux-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">the +team status page</a>, and +<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-zfsonlinux/zfs.git">the +source code</a> is available on Alioth.</p> + +<p>As I want ZFS to be included in next version of Debian to make sure +my home server can function in the future using only official Debian +packages, and the current blocker is to get he debian/copyright file +accepted by the FTP masters in Debian, I decided a while back to try +to help out the team. This was the background for my blog post about +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html">creating, +updating and checking debian/copyright semi-automatically</a>, and I +used the techniques I explored there to try to find any errors in the +copyright file. It is not very easy to check every one of the around +2000 files in the source package, but I hope we this time got it +right. If you want to help out, check out the git source and try to +find missing entries in the debian/copyright file.</p> + + + Statlig hemmelighold, «mangler» i OEP og treg journalføring - statistikk for 2015 http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Statlig_hemmelighold___mangler__i_OEP_og_treg_journalf_ring___statistikk_for_2015.html