Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Proposed removal of DECnet support (was:Re: [BUG] 3.2-rc2:BUG kmalloc-8: Redzone overwritten) | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:23:52 +0000 |
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On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 20:50 +0100, Philipp Schafft wrote: > reflum, > > On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 14:52 +0000, Steven Whitehouse wrote: [...] > > It is good to know that people are still using the Linux DECnet code > > too. It has lived far beyond the time when I'd envisioned it still being > > useful :-) > > There are still some people interested in it. Btw. on Debian popcon > counts 5356 users.
This is grossly misleading. Here's the historical graph showing <100 installations of libdnet until early 2011: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=libdnet
The increase in 2011 is not a sudden resurgence of interest; it comes from roaraudio[1] users. For some reason (a joke?) roaraudio has DECnet support and its packages depend on libdnet. You can see that the above graph is precisely correlated with this: http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=libroar1
(And so far as I can work out, libroar1 is mostly being installed as a dependency of an unofficial package of Xine.)
The only reason I know this is because there was a sudden spate of bug reports on the kernel due to people getting dnet-common installed as a recommendation of libdnet and then having their Ethernet MAC addresses reconfigured for DECnet.
[1] Yet another audio mixing daemon
Ben.
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