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    <p>Robet,</p>
    <p>Can you confirm the information I got that the driver can only be
      used to convert legacy datasets (can they still be downloaded from
      web sites?) and not recent ones ? How much time still do you plan
      to use it ?<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 14/11/2023 à 20:53, nagyrobi_r---
      via gdal-dev a écrit :<br>
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      <div>Hi all! </div>
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      I use SOSI gdal conversion. So in case you are wondering, there is
      at least one user. 
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      <div>Kind regards, </div>
      <div>Robet Nagy </div>
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            <div>On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 8:41 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg
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            On 11/14/23 20:05, Even Rouault via gdal-dev wrote:<br
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            > Le 14/11/2023 à 19:48, Sebastiaan Couwenberg via
            gdal-dev a écrit :<br clear="none">
            >> On 11/14/23 19:16, Even Rouault via gdal-dev wrote:<br
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            >>> ==> Are there users still using the existing
            OGR SOSI driver ?<br clear="none">
            >><br clear="none">
            >> We don't have metrics for the OGR driver, but
            libfyba0 still has 513 <br clear="none">
            >> users in popcon.<br clear="none">
            >><br clear="none">
            >>  <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=fyba">https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=fyba</a><br
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            > <br clear="none">
            > Looking in the same column in <br clear="none">
            > <a shape="rect"
              href="https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=gdal"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
              class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=gdal</a>
            shows that gdal-bin would <br clear="none">
            > have only 520 users...  which seems highly suspiciously
            low compared to <br clear="none">
            > the super specialized and low level libfyba.  I would
            bet that > 99% of <br clear="none">
            > installations of libfyba0 are because libgdal links to
            it, which doesn't <br clear="none">
            > mean that it is used for useful stuff (the other
            reverse dependency of <br clear="none">
            > libfyba in Debian is sosi2osm, which according to <br
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            > <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=sosi2osm">https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=sosi2osm</a>, has
            only 3 users)<br clear="none">
            <br clear="none">
            sosi2osm was removed from Debian during the bookworm
            development cycle.<br clear="none">
            <br clear="none">
            The only rdep of fyba in Debian is gdal now.<br clear="none">
            <br clear="none">
            Almost all installations of libfyba are due to it being a
            dependency of <br clear="none">
            gdal, that's why it has 23911 installations but only 513
            votes (regular <br clear="none">
            users).<br clear="none">
            <br clear="none">
            > What if people build a Docker image of GDAL from source
            and install its <br clear="none">
            > dependencies with apt install libfyba-dev: will that
            trigger a hit in <br clear="none">
            > popcorn?<br clear="none">
            <br clear="none">
            popcon is opt-in, there are only ~230000 systems running
            popcon out of <br clear="none">
            millions of Debian installations. Hence it's mostly usable
            to provide <br clear="none">
            insight into relative popularity compared to other packages
            in Debian. <br clear="none">
            Container images are unlikely to enable popcon, the Docker
            images don't <br clear="none">
            even have it installed.<br clear="none">
            <br clear="none">
            > I'm more interested in Norwegian flesh and bones users
            testifying about <br clear="none">
            > their use or non-use of SOSI.<br clear="none">
            <br clear="none">
            Me too, if there are none left we can also remove the fyba
            package from <br clear="none">
            Debian.<br clear="none">
            <br clear="none">
            Kind Regards,<br clear="none">
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            Bas<br clear="none">
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