[Popcon-developers] Bug#610860: popularity-contest: abnormal termination while a package is uninstalled

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:45:57PM +0200, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 05:46:27PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote [edited]:
> > As far as I understand, this is a warning, not an anormal termination.
> > Yes, we could check the return value of open, but it this instance I
> > feel that the warning is legitimate.
> 
> Agreed, but the user that sees the warning cannot tell that.
> 
> > For example, if the user set up a cron job that automatically update their system,
> > it can alert them that there is a conflict.
> > 
> > Please note that this bug was also reported as #555790. I am still not quite sure
> > how to address it.
> 
> Perhaps add a msg to make it clear that it is normal under certain
> circumstances (along the lines of "failed to open xxx (this is normal if
> dpkg was running at the same time)". This will save you from having to deal
> with such bug reports in the future.

Well, I have already changed the warning to read:
  "popcon: file $dpkg_db/$pkg.list is missing\n"

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

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