Bug#960617: popularity-contest: popcon fails to send data if USETOR=maybe and tor is not running
Dear all,
I received the following bug report (#960617) about the tor support in
popcon. What do you think should be done ?
Cheers,
Bill
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 08:22:11PM +0300, Michael Krylov wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.67
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I have noticed that my recent submissions to popularity contest database
> have failed. After some further investigation and running
>
> sudo bash -x /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest
>
> to see what is actually happening, I've noticed that it tries to use
> torify to send the submission:
>
> /usr/bin/torify /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload -u http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi -f /var/log/popularity-contest.new.gpg
>
> Although I have tor installed, I don't run it all the time, and only
> start it on demand.
>
> For now, as a workaround, I set USETOR="no".
>
> I suggest that this script would check the `service tor status` before
> actually using torify if USETOR="maybe" and fail if USERTOR="yes".
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 10.4
> APT prefers stable
> APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
>
> 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] 3.0pl1-134+deb10u1
> pn default-mta | mail-transport-agent <none>
> ii gnupg 2.2.12-1+deb10u1
>
> Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
> ii anacron 2.3-28
> ii tor 0.3.5.10-1
> ii torsocks 2.3.0-2
>
> -- debconf information:
> * popularity-contest/participate: true
> popularity-contest/submiturls:
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