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SubjectRe: [Linux-decnet-user] Proposed removal of DECnet support (was:Re: [BUG] 3.2-rc2:BUG kmalloc-8: Redzone overwritten)
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On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 01:23 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 20:50 +0100, Philipp Schafft wrote:
> > 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

Maybe my statement was missleading. popcon shows 5356 installs. This
includes real users and non-real users. Both groups *may* be affected by
droping the kernel module (in diffrent ways).


> For some reason (a joke?) roaraudio has DECnet
> support and its packages depend on libdnet.

Maybe just because it is usefull for the RoarAudio project.

Anyway, don't take the number too important. It was just a minor note.

--
Philipp.
(Rah of PH2)
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