[Bug 858697] Re: daily cron script complains about packages not being installed

[Janne Snabb]

There is an easy workaround. I am adding it here for the benefit of
others who are bothered by this:

# dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest

And select "No".

(There is no point in submitting this data when nobody bothered to
update this package for precise. Feels like nobody appreciates users
submitting this data. Sorry about whining.)

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Title:
  daily cron script complains about packages not being installed

Status in “popularity-contest” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “popularity-contest” source package in Precise:
  Triaged
Status in “popularity-contest” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  1)installed as  Xubuntu Oneiric Beta 1 amd64. Up to date.
  2) 1.53ubuntu1
  3) I expect that my daily cron does not have problems 
  4) Happened this:
  /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
  Package `bcompare' is not installed.
  Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
  and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
  Package `skype' is not installed.
  Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
  and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

  I have them both installed in i386 architecture if that helps.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: popularity-contest 1.53ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Sep 25 09:53:54 2011
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: popularity-contest
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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