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 for telling us about this problem. I will ask the authors of the tor patch. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
