Bug#960617: popularity-contest: popcon fails to send data if USETOR=maybe and tor is not running

[Ben Wiederhake <BenWiederhake.GitHub@gmx.de>]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.70
Followup-For: Bug #960617

Dear Maintainer,

I also ran into this issue.

For some reason, setting USETOR="no" in /etc/popularity-contest.conf does not
do the trick for me. (It still fails.)

My "temporary workaround" is now to uninstall tor. (Let's hope I don't need it
for a while.)

Cheers,
Ben



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.74
ii  dpkg                   1.19.7

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron [cron-daemon]                         3.0pl1-136
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.94-6
ii  gnupg                                      2.2.20-1

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii  anacron   2.3-29
pn  tor       <none>
pn  torsocks  <none>

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