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:
