[gdal-dev] Is the SOSI Norwegian driver still useful?

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 11/14/23 20:05, Even Rouault via gdal-dev wrote:
> Le 14/11/2023 à 19:48, Sebastiaan Couwenberg via gdal-dev a écrit :
>> On 11/14/23 19:16, Even Rouault via gdal-dev wrote:
>>> ==> Are there users still using the existing OGR SOSI driver ?
>>
>> We don't have metrics for the OGR driver, but libfyba0 still has 513 
>> users in popcon.
>>
>>  https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=fyba
> 
> Looking in the same column in 
> https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=gdal shows that gdal-bin would 
> have only 520 users...  which seems highly suspiciously low compared to 
> the super specialized and low level libfyba.  I would bet that > 99% of 
> installations of libfyba0 are because libgdal links to it, which doesn't 
> mean that it is used for useful stuff (the other reverse dependency of 
> libfyba in Debian is sosi2osm, which according to 
> https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=sosi2osm, has only 3 users)

sosi2osm was removed from Debian during the bookworm development cycle.

The only rdep of fyba in Debian is gdal now.

Almost all installations of libfyba are due to it being a dependency of 
gdal, that's why it has 23911 installations but only 513 votes (regular 
users).

> What if people build a Docker image of GDAL from source and install its 
> dependencies with apt install libfyba-dev: will that trigger a hit in 
> popcorn?

popcon is opt-in, there are only ~230000 systems running popcon out of 
millions of Debian installations. Hence it's mostly usable to provide 
insight into relative popularity compared to other packages in Debian. 
Container images are unlikely to enable popcon, the Docker images don't 
even have it installed.

> I'm more interested in Norwegian flesh and bones users testifying about 
> their use or non-use of SOSI.

Me too, if there are none left we can also remove the fyba package from 
Debian.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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