[Popcon-developers] Bug#850568: popularity-contest: popcon-largest-unused tries to read encrypted log

[celelibi@gmail.com (Celelibi)]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.64
Severity: normal

Dear maintainer,

I'm not sure when this happened, but it looks like the statistics
gathered by popularity-contest are not encrypted before sending them
online.

However, the tool popcon-largest-unused (provided by this package) try
to read this file as if it were not encrypted.

I may suggest that popcon-largest-unused reads from
/var/log/popularity-contest.new, which is the unencrypted last file.

Best regards,
Celelibi

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.10.11 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.59
ii  dpkg                   1.18.18

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron [cron-daemon]                         3.0pl1-128
ii  exim4                                      4.88-2
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.88-2
ii  gnupg                                      2.1.17-2

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
pn  anacron  <none>

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