[Popcon-developers] Bug#709892: Experimental popcon package

[Bill Allombert]

Dear popular people,

I working on a new version of popularity-contest to spread the lot on the
server better.

In this version, a file in /etc/cron.d is created in the postinst that
run /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest every day at some fixed random time
(random hour:random minutes).
/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest is also scheduled by cron.daily as usual.
This is necessary because anacron does not process /etc/cron.d.

/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest is changed not to update 
/var/log/popularity-contest unless the submission appears to be successful.

/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest will still report at most once a week, by
looking at the timestamp of /var/log/popularity-contest.

I have made a preliminary package available at:
<http://people.debian.org/~ballombe/popcon/debs/popularity-contest_1.62~pre1_all.deb>

I would be extremly glad if you could experiment with it especially if you are
affected by bug #709892. This kind of change is hard to test, and we have little time
before the freeze.

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

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