On Sun, Jul 26, 2026 at 07:30:11PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: > > 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?
Sorry! What do you want to test ? You can run /usr/sbin/popularity-contest manually. You can change the day in /etc/popularity-contest.conf and run /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest There is a log in /var/log/popularity-contest > 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? The official debian-popcon.gpg file is the Debian source tarball. Cheers, Bill.
