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

[Bill Allombert]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 09:53:34AM +0200, William Dode wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.45
> Severity: important
> 
> The cron used for popularity-contest is now cron.daily
> On the man page it says weekly :
> "Normally, popularity-contest is run from a cron(8) job, 
> /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest "

The manpage is unfortunately outdated, popularity-contest now run from
/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest but still only once a week.
This is done to spread the load on the popcon server.

> It affect popbugs on debian-goodies package when popbugs is run before 
> popularity-contest (the data is missing).
> Then popbugs says :
> "Try running /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest by
> hand to collect some data."

running /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest will not work,
because it will only run one day per weeks.

> I don't know if i should report the bug on debian-goodies package...

Probably yes.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here.