[Popcon-developers] Bug#709892: Experimental popcon package

[Ernest Adrogué]

Hi,

2014-07-25, 16:16 (+0200); Bill Allombert escriu:
> I have made a preliminary package available at:
> <http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/popcon/debs/popularity-contest_1.62~pre1_all.deb>
> 
> I would be extremly glad if you could experiment with it especially if you are
> affected by bug #709892. This kind of change is hard to test, and we have little time
> before the freeze.

I installed your experimental package yesterday.  So far, it works.
However, because the non-random submission is attempted before the other
one, I still get a failure to submit report:

# grep popularity /var/log/syslog
Jul 29 07:36:08 doriath popularity-contest: unable to submit report to http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi.
Jul 29 15:49:01 doriath /USR/SBIN/CRON[4478]: (root) CMD (   test -x /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest && /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest)

The 15:49 attempt (from cron.d) did succeed.

If I understand correctly this failure will only occur once, as 7 days from
Jul 29 07:36:08 will be less than a week since the latest submission and the
script will do nothing, right?

Cheers.