[Popcon-developers] Bug#496831: popularity-contest: Does not send votes for non-program packages

[Noel David Torres Taño]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.45
Severity: important


Actually popcon is unable to send votes for packages like kdemultimedia or libxcursor1 because they have no executables.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.22     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.14.20    Debian package management system

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-104 management of regular background p
ii  exim4                         4.69-6     metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-6     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii  anacron                       2.3-13.1   cron-like program that doesn't go 

-- debconf information:
  popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true