On 2019-07-01, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On Monday 01 July 2019 03:52:55 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 12:45:57PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >At this point, I'd call it a buster delaying bug. That last is going >> > to cost too many that can't ignore it and don't have unencrypted >> > backups. Thats going to be a lot of very bad PR. >> >> It's the release teams call, generally speaking, and one of the things >> they might factor in is the size of the user-base for the troublesome >> package. I'm surprised to find that it's extremely small according to >> popcon data: less than 1% of reporters: >> https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=ecryptfs-utils >> >> Compare just two alternatives: >> >> encfs: 1.14% https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=encfs >> cryptsetup: 15% https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=cryptsetup > > That does put a better light on it. From the comments so far, I was
The light's not switching on for me, Gene. I'm trying to figure out Popularity Contest and what all those statistics mean. Let's compare encfs and ecryptfs-utils with a bit more granularity. NAME NUMBER % RANK NUMBER % RANK ... ____________________________________________________________________________ ecryptfs-utils 1651 0.85% 10510 1066 0.58% 3632 ... encfs 2231 1.14% 9233 630 0.34% 4574 ... The second triad of NUMBER % RANK columns corresponds to the number of people using the package regularly* and by that metric ecryptfs-utils beats encfs by a relative long shot (1066 to 630, 0.58% to 0.34%). It's true cryptsetup appears to be the clear winner of the three, though it's not entirely comparable to the other two use-case/implementation-wise (block device level encryption as compared to file system level encryption). Maybe I'm getting this all wrong. *whatever that may denote in this case, exactly > thinking I'm one of the few not using it. I've depended on dd-wrt > between me and the internet for the last 16 years, and even before that > I was on dialup and the dialup folks didn't have enough bandwidth to > attract the black hats, so I've never been touched.
