[Popcon-developers] Bug#610860: popularity-contest: abnormal termination while a package is uninstalled

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

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 02:03:50PM +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.49
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> Hi,
> 
> popcon failed with the error below while I've been purging another package:
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
> readline() on closed filehandle FILES at /usr/sbin/popularity-contest line 104.

Hello Serafeim,
As far as I understand, this is a warning, not an anormal termination.
Yes, we could check the return value of open, but it this instance I 
feel that the warning is legitimate.
For example, if the user set up a cron job that automatically update their system,
it can alert them that there is a conflict.

Please note that this bug was also reported as #555790. I am still not quite sure
how to address it.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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