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

[Bill Allombert]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 06:39:05PM -0700, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> 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.

Hello Bryce,
You are reporting this bug against the trunk. Please explain why the fix for
#610876 which was released in 1.52 does not adress your concern.

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

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