[Popcon-developers] Bug#522023: popularity-contest: popcon should be run/offered to be run once while installation

[Erik Meusel]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.47
Severity: normal

popularity-contest should be run/offered to be run once while installation, because tools like
popbugs from debian-goodies package need popularity-contest to be run once.

Since there is the following code:

# Only run on the given day, to spread the load on the server a bit
if [ "$DAY" ] && [ "$DAY" != "$(date +%w)" ] ; then
  exit 0
fi

in /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest, it cannot be run manually to solve this, as
popbugs mentioned. When I commented out these lines and re-ran
/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest, it worked.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE at euro)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.26     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.14.25    Debian package management system

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-105 management of regular background p
ii  exim4                         4.69-9     metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-9     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
pn  anacron                       <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true