Bug#930446: popularity-contest: unable to submit report, impossible to debug

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@debian.org>]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.67
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

on several of my hosts, popularity-contest logs

  unable to submit report to http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi.
  unable to submit report.

But it does not log why and there is no way that I could find to trigger
the sending from the command line with debug output enabled.

http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/pop is reachable from the host via curl. Also,
according to the documentation it should fall back to email, which it does not
do. It does not log why it does not do that.

Cheers,
Stefan

Relevant parts of /etc/popularity-contest.conf (without MY_HOSTID):

PARTICIPATE="yes"
USEHTTP="yes"
DAY="2"



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.71
ii  dpkg                   1.19.7

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron [cron-daemon]                         3.0pl1-133
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.92-7
ii  gnupg                                      2.2.12-1

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

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