[Popcon-developers] Bug#500431: popularity-contest: cronned in daily instead of (announced on) weekly

[Vagrant Cascadian]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.45
Followup-For: Bug #500431

running from cron.daily on a specific day of the week makes it work poorly on
systems not running all the time and relying on anacron to trigger weekly
events; if i don't happen to boot my laptop on the appropriate day, it simply
doesn't run.

i think it would be be better to check the last time
/var/log/popularity-contest was updated, and run popularity-contest only if it
hadn't been updated in 7 days (or a configurable number, like
/etc/cron.daily/apt).

this should give a fairly random distribution (based on install dates), while
still allowing for systems that are not running all the time to function.

live well,
  vagrant

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.14.23    Debian package management system

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-105 management of regular background p
ii  exim4                         4.69-9     metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-9     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