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

[Bill Allombert]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 09:13:04PM +0200, Ernest Adrogué wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for confirming that.

> 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?

Unfortunately the delay is actually of 6.5 days currently.
I agree that loging a failure every week might be annoying.
Not sure how to avoid that.

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

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