[Popcon-developers] Bug#87619: popularity-contest should use alternate method if /usr is mounted readonly

[ballombe@debian.org (Bill Allombert)]

On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 04:59:56PM +0200, Manolo D?az wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.64
> Followup-For: Bug #87619
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I think there are other circumstances under which popcon provides
> unreliable "Vote" values:
>         /usr is mounted relatime

relatime is fine, since atime are still updated one time by day.

>         A program that checks the system integrity, such as debsums

> In that case, is it worth to have popularity-contest installed or
> should I deinstall it?

Well the 'inst' field is still correct, so this is still useful.

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

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