[Popcon-developers] Bug#346445: popularity-contest: cron run fails (with anacron at least)

[Christian Perrier]

(shadow package maintainer hat ON. Please keep at least the pkg-shadow
mailing list CC'ed)

Quoting Frank Pavageau (frank.pavageau at free.fr):
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.31
> Severity: important
> 
> popcon failed to run, with the following mail sent by anacron:
> """
> Subject: Anacron job 'cron.weekly' on ook
> 
> /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest:
> /bin/sh: - : invalid option
> Usage:  /bin/sh [GNU long option] [option] ...
>         /bin/sh [GNU long option] [option] script-file ...


This is the consequence of recent upstream changes in su (shadow
package).

Nicolas François is currently investigating the packages hit by this
(unfortunately several of them).

We will try to find a way to have su keep its former behaviour if we
can but I currently don't know if we'll be able to suceed and when. I
would recommend fixing popcon for the new behaviour.