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.
-
-
According to
-the popcon
-results for spl-linux, 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
-the popcon
-results for zfsutils show 1625 Debian installations or 0.84% of
-the population. So I guess I am not alone in using ZFS on Debian.
-
-
But even though the Debian project leader Lucas Nussbaum
-announced
-in April 2015 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
-the
-team status page, and
-the
-source code is available on Alioth.
-
-
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 the 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
-creating,
-updating and checking debian/copyright semi-automatically, 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.
-