Re: AX25 and related software's future in Debian

[Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag@rendrag.net>]

On 5/05/2012 1:14 AM, Patrick Ouellette wrote:
> Dan,
>
> Playing Devil's advocate - the argument has been put forth in the
> "other discussion" that according to popcon (the Debian popularity
> contest), node has 81 installs, and 17 reporting as "active" while the
> nodejs package has 720 installs with 163 reporting as "active."  So their
> conclusion is the node package is only used by a small community.
>
Does anyone actually USE popcon though?  I dunno about you, but I have 
~400 debian boxes in use around my clients, and NONE are participating 
in popularity contest.. - Having the server info + installed packages 
sent off to some off-site location is a security risk, and a stumbling 
block on the way to PCI Compliance.  That and it just seems 
microsoft-style creepy!

I don't think you can honestly expect to use popcon as a valid indicator 
to the ax25 packages' install base.. - Much like you couldn't expect it 
to be valid for snort, acidbase, or other tools used in a secure 
environment?   (Which a ham radio node needs to be, to maintain the 
separation of ham-tcpip and public-tcpip networks).

Regards,

Damien

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