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

[Witold Jarnicki]

A way to fix this is to change line 161 of /usr/sbin/popularity-contest

Old version:
open PACKAGES, "dpkg-query --show --showformat='\${status} \${package}\\n'|";

New version:
open PACKAGES, "dpkg-query --show --showformat='\${status} \${packagespec}\\n'|";

I don't know if that's the proper approach, but it seems to be working.

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Title:
  daily cron script complains about packages not being installed

Status in “popularity-contest” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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