[Popcon-developers] Bug#349271: popularity-contest: shell option errors

[ron.l.johnson@cox.net (Ron Johnson)]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.31
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


On 14-Jan, cron.weekly started sending me emails with this in them:
<CONTENTS>
/etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest:
/bin/sh: - : invalid option
Usage:  /bin/sh [GNU long option] [option] ...
        /bin/sh [GNU long option] [option] script-file ...
GNU long options:
        --debug
        --debugger
        --dump-po-strings
        --dump-strings
        --help
        --init-file
        --login
        --noediting
        --noprofile
        --norc
        --posix
        --protected
        --rcfile
        --restricted
        --verbose
        --version
        --wordexp
Shell options:
        -irsD or -c command or -O shopt_option          (invocation
only)
        -abefhkmnptuvxBCHP or -o option
</CONTENTS>

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.67     Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.13.11.1  package maintenance system for Deb

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-92  management of regular background p
pn  mime-construct                <none>     (no description available)
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.2.8-4    A high-performance mail transport 

-- debconf information:
  popularity-contest/hostid-failed:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
  popularity-contest/use-http: true