[Popcon-developers] Bug#635673: popcon won't run consistently on machines that sleep at night

[Bryce Nesbitt]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: trunk

As configured in Debian, popularity-contest can miss sending reports.  
The day parameter specifies a day, but it is possible that a particular 
machine will be consistently asleep at that time.  For example a machine 
in a 9-5 Monday-Friday office.  Even if anacron is in place to run the 
script, the given DAY may have already passed.

A mixture of anacron and a change to the DAY="X" parameter would solve 
this, ensuring some randomness in the reporting, but not skipping out 
hearing from some classes of machines.