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

[Goswin von Brederlow]

Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> (BTW, popcon is mainly run from cron so interactive performance is not so
>> critical.)
>  
> The issue is not interactive performances but waste of system resource. Users
> will complain.
>
> Cheers,

Please do get real. This runs once a week at an ungodly hour. 2s or 30s
is not going to make a collosal difference. 30s is ~0.005% of the weekly
cpu time. Other cron jobs take far longer. And 30s is better than not
working.

MfG
        Goswin