[Popcon-developers] Bug#622322: popularity-contest: popcon tries to access dpkg internal files and fails with multiarch: same packageso

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

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 08:05:56AM +0200, Rapha?l Hertzog wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.52
> Severity: important
> 
> I get errors from cron because of popcon:
> /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
> popcon: file /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2.list is missing
> 
> 
> That file doesn't exist, it's really /var/lib/dpkg/info/liblouis2:i386.list
> due to the multiarch-enabled dpkg that I'm running.
> 
> You should not access those files, the proper interface is dpkg-query -L <pkg>.

Hello Rapha?l,

This is not possible: forking dpkg for all installed packages would be way to slow and 
resource intensive. We need a better option.

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

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