[Popcon-developers] Bug#346445: popularity-contest: cron run fails (with anacron at least)

[Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr (Bill Allombert)]

merge 346445 331438
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:42:46AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> (shadow package maintainer hat ON. Please keep at least the pkg-shadow
> mailing list CC'ed)
> 
> Quoting Frank Pavageau (frank.pavageau@free.fr):
> > Package: popularity-contest
> > Version: 1.31
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > popcon failed to run, with the following mail sent by anacron:
> > """
> > Subject: Anacron job 'cron.weekly' on ook
> > 
> > /etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest:
> > /bin/sh: - : invalid option
> > Usage:  /bin/sh [GNU long option] [option] ...
> >         /bin/sh [GNU long option] [option] script-file ...
> 
> 
> This is the consequence of recent upstream changes in su (shadow
> package).
> 
> Nicolas Fran?ois is currently investigating the packages hit by this
> (unfortunately several of them).
> 
> We will try to find a way to have su keep its former behaviour if we
> can but I currently don't know if we'll be able to suceed and when. I
> would recommend fixing popcon for the new behaviour.

This bug is already fixed in popcon CVS.

However this does not fix partial sarge to etch upgrade.

Thanks for using popcon!
Bill.