Bug#991908: popcon-upload: fails with https SUBMITURLS: Unable to parse url (unable to submit report)

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 01:42:03AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.71
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: tg@mirbsd.de
> 
> When SUBMITURLS has an https URL (or one not with http:// anyway,
> see /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload line 38 for why,
> submission fails; syslog has…
> 
> Aug  5 01:37:53 DESKTOP-PN6OO9E popularity-contest: unable to submit report to https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi.
> 
> (this is on a standard WSL system, but the bug is present in stock
> Debian popcon-upload) and using popcon-upload’s -d option:
> 
> + setsid /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload -d -u https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi -f /var/log/popularity-contest.new -C
> Unable to parse url
> 
> This is probably more relevant to certain derivatives, but it will
> impact #989082 negatively as well.
> 
> For completeness in case derivatives’ users stumble upon this:
> 
> tglase@DESKTOP-PN6OO9E:~ $ tail -1 /etc/popularity-contest.conf
> SUBMITURLS=http://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi
> 
> This makes it succeed as that submit host seems to accept http.

Hello Thorsten,
For reasons explained in #989082, submitting via https is not supported.
PGP encryption is safer and more robust on popcon time scale.

Also, Ubuntu has stopped reporting to popcon.ubuntu.com.

Cheers,
Bill.