[Popcon-developers] Bug#437118: Report broken package database to use

[alain@parkautomat.net (Alain Schroeder)]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.42
Severity: wishlist

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There are currently 158 reports missing popularity-contest as a package.
These installation also tend to have very old versions of
popularity-contest. 18 of these actually report no files at all - just a
header and a footer. This is surely because of a broken package
database.

popcon should check if itself is reported and report to the user if not,
as missing entries for packages might affect security updates! Of course
passing this test does not necessarily mean that the database is not
corrupt.

Bye,
  Alain

--- System information. ---
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.18-4-powerpc

Debian Release: 4.0
  500 unstable        ftp2.de.debian.org 
  500 testing         ftp2.de.debian.org 
  500 stable          security.debian.org 
  500 stable          ftp2.de.debian.org 

--- Package information. ---
Depends          (Version) | Installed
==========================-+-===========
debconf          (>= 0.5)  | 1.5.11
 OR debconf-2.0            | 
dpkg             (>= 1.10) | 1.13.25