On Sat, 25 Jul 2026, 14:57 Bill Allombert, <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 01:14:32PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: > > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article > > that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.general as well. > > > > Bill Allombert <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > Dear Debian developers, > > > > > > I am trying to fix bug #1089172 > > > popularity-contest: migrate cron job to systemd timer on Linux ports > > > > > > While this is reasonable thing to do, popcon has a number of unusual > requirements, > > > hence the open-minded in the subject... > > > > Could you say what the unusual requirements are? i couldnt tell from the > bug > > > Specifically for the timer: > 1/ the report need to be sent about once a week at some random time to > minimize congestion > on the server side. > > 2/ if the host is not powered or not online at the time the report is to be > sent, sending the report need to be retried later, about one time per day. > > This is done currently by the /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest running > every > day at some time determined randomly at installation time in > /etc/cron.d/popularity-contest. > i think this is actually fairly simple: as you've already implemented this in the cron script, we just need to ensure systemd and cron can coexist my only questions are: 1..s there any way to test this - i think there are no tests in the package at all, but is there maybe some option i can pass to output the report not actually send it? and 2. how do i even build the package? i did a git clone and "gbp buildpackage" and it failed with: install -m 644 debian-popcon.gpg debian/popularity-contest/usr/share/popularity-contest/ install: cannot stat 'debian-popcon.gpg': No such file or directory there's no .gpg file in the repository... what am i missing?
