[Popcon-developers] Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

[Jonathan Nieder]

Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> BTW, don't parse /var/lib/dpkg/status directly either, but use "dpkg-query
> -W -f'${Package} ${Status}\n'".

Indeed, popularity-contest does that already.  Have you looked at
/usr/sbin/popularity-contest recently?  It's very short.