[Popcon-developers] Bug#714918: will silently not encrypt submissions if gpg is not available

[Bill Allombert]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 11:26:40AM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.58
> Severity: normal
> 
> >From /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
> 
>   if [ "$ENCRYPT" = "yes" ] && [ -x "$GPG" ]; then
> 
> This will make popcon silently not encrypt submissions should gpg not be
> available. That's fine if you asked popcon to encrypt submissions if possible
> (ENCRYPT=maybe?), but it should probably fail with an error if encryption is
> required explicitly (ENCRYPT=yes) and doing so is not possible for some reason.

I agree with you, see
<http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/popcon-developers/2013-June/002321.html>

In the long run the question is how much do we need to support unencrypted report.

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

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