[Popcon-developers] Bug#502159: popularity-contest: when HTTP fails, tries MAILTO: no dpkg-configure options

[Ryo Furue]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.45
Severity: normal

If I'm not mistaken, popularity-contest tries to send
email when HTTP submission fails. I think this behavior should
be configurable through "dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest",
because

1) There are many users whose MTA only allows local delivery;
2) How to change configuration isn't clear.  

Regarding point (2), I think that you actually need
to read /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest to determine
how you should edit /etc/popularity-contest.conf to achieve
your desired configuration.  (How one should modify the
file isn't documented in "man popularity-contest"
or in any of the files in /usr/share/doc/popularity-contest,
I don't think.)

An alternative approach may be just to document how one
should modify which configuration file.

Hope this helps,
Ryo

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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                          1.14.22    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:
pn  anacron                       <none>     (no description available)

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