[Popcon-developers] Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packages

[Raphaël Hertzog]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.52
Severity: important

I get errors from cron because of popcon:
/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
popcon: file /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2.list is missing


That file doesn't exist, it's really /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2:i386.list
due to the multiarch-enabled dpkg that I'm running.

You should not access those files, the proper interface is dpkg-query -L <pkg>.

(Setting to important as those regular cron mails are annoying)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.38     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.16.1     Debian package management system

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-116 process scheduling daemon
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.8.2-1    High-performance mail transport ag

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii  anacron                       2.3-14     cron-like program that doesn't go 

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