Package: popularity-contest Version: 1.31 Severity: normal Various documentation about submission via http is not up-to-date. This can be confusing to people considering rolling out popcon accross a company, where email submission is known not to work very well. Here are the places I found that were confusingly out of date:
FAQ:
A) Each popularity-contest host is identified by a random 128bit uuid
(MY_HOSTID in /etc/popularity-contest.conf). This uuid is used to track
submission issued by the same host. It should be kept secret. The reports
are sent by email to the popcon server. The server automatically extract
the report from the email
...
The emails are readable only by the server admins.
...
1) Your email submission might be intercepted.
No mention of http in the above..
An alternative is to use the new experimental http submission support.
This can be enabled using this command:
dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest
Whereas http is really the default, with a fallback to mail on error.
Also, I don't think the http is experimental anymore.
popularity-contest(8):
Normally, popularity-contest is run from a cron(8) job,
/etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest, which automatically emails the
results to Debian package maintainers according to the settings in
/etc/popularity-contest.conf.
Should mention http use and the fallback, or just s/emails/submits/ to
keep it simple.
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see shy jo
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