[Popcon-developers] Bug#659782: does not cope with multiarch packages being installed

[pkern@debian.org (Philipp Kern)]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.53
Severity: important
User: multiarch-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: multiarch

I just received the following mail from anacron:

/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
Package `libc6-i686' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `mksh' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

Those are multiarch packages I have installed:

$ dpkg -l | grep libc6-i686
ii  libc6-i686:i386  2.13-26  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 optimized]

Interestingly mksh:i386 is reduced to mksh in `dpkg -l':

ii  mksh  40.4-2  MirBSD Korn Shell

However `dpkg -l mksh' gives this:

un  mksh  <none>  (no description available)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.41
ii  dpkg                   1.16.2~wipmultiarch

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                                       3.0pl1-120
ii  exim4                                      4.77-1
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.77-1+b1

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii  anacron  2.3-14

-- debconf information:
  popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true