Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster
On Monday 01 July 2019 09:14:07 Curt wrote:
> On 2019-07-01, Gene Heskett <gheskett@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).
>
I'm not sure I understand all the numbers either. OTOH, paranoia that
makes a few use it does seem to be related to the hand of a beerholder.
> Maybe I'm getting this all wrong.
Its entirely possible we're both wrong, and that caldrons of hot tar and
old pillows will materialize in this space. I personally have never felt
the need to use it, so I haven't. To me, its something else that guy
Murphy can break, at the most inopportune time of course. He drinks my
last beer just often enough to remind me he's about the place. :)
> *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.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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