[Popcon-developers] Bug#87619: popularity-contest should use alternate method if /usr is mounted readonly

[Manolo Díaz]

On Tuesday, 9 May 2017 at 16:47 UTC
Bill Allombert wrote:

> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 04:59:56PM +0200, Manolo Díaz wrote:
> > Package: popularity-contest
> > Version: 1.64
> > Followup-For: Bug #87619
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > I think there are other circumstances under which popcon provides
> > unreliable "Vote" values:
> >         /usr is mounted relatime  
> 
> relatime is fine, since atime are still updated one time by day.
> 
> >         A program that checks the system integrity, such as debsums  
> 
> > In that case, is it worth to have popularity-contest installed or
> > should I deinstall it?  
> 
> Well the 'inst' field is still correct, so this is still useful.
> 
> Cheers,

All right, I'll keep it installed then. Thank you.

Regards,
-- 
Manolo Díaz