[Popcon-developers] Bug#239939: popularity-contest: Should warn on install with noatime enabled

[Seth M LaForge]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.15
Severity: wishlist

It appears that popularity-contest relies on atime information, which
means that if the partition containing /usr and /bin is mounted noatime,
popularity-contest won't do much good.  It's common to mount filesystems
noatime in order to speed them up.

It might be good to check for noatime mounts (through 'mount | grep
noatime', or maybe something more clever) at install time, and if found,
show a dialog box warning that noatime should be removed from /etc/fstab
if the user wishes to have popularity-contest do anything useful.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.20
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.4.16     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.10.20    Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.0.18-1   A high-performance mail transport 

-- debconf information:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
  popularity-contest/hostid-failed: