[Bug 1822672] [NEW] popularity-contest is probably broken

[Marc D.]

Public bug reported:

I was curious how statistics are submitted by popularity-contest, so I
checked:

marc at ellen:~$ sudo bash -x /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest 
[…]
+ for URL in $SUBMITURLS
+ setsid /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload -u https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi -f /var/log/popularity-contest.new -C
+ logger -t popularity-contest 'unable to submit report to https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi.'
[…]

When run manually, the error is:

marc at ellen:~$ /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload -u https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi -f /var/log/popularity-contest.new -C -d
Unable to parse url
Expected 'PeerHost' at /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload line 75.

The URL https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi is set in /usr/share
/popularity-contest/default.conf

I noticed that /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload contains
hardcoded sequences of "http:", so I tried to manually run popcon-upload
with "-u http://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi". Turns out, it
works:

marc at ellen:~$ /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload -u
http://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi -f /var/log/popularity-
contest.new -C -d

I suppose this is globally broken since the URL was changed to https,
but the script was not updated to support https.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: popularity-contest 1.67ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-8.9-generic 5.0.1
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu23
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Mon Apr  1 21:10:33 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-20 (1166 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: popularity-contest
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: popularity-contest (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug disco

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Title:
  popularity-contest is probably broken

Status in popularity-contest package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I was curious how statistics are submitted by popularity-contest, so I
  checked:

  marc at ellen:~$ sudo bash -x /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest 
  […]
  + for URL in $SUBMITURLS
  + setsid /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload -u https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi -f /var/log/popularity-contest.new -C
  + logger -t popularity-contest 'unable to submit report to https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi.'
  […]

  When run manually, the error is:

  marc at ellen:~$ /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload -u https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi -f /var/log/popularity-contest.new -C -d
  Unable to parse url
  Expected 'PeerHost' at /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload line 75.

  The URL https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi is set in
  /usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf

  I noticed that /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload contains
  hardcoded sequences of "http:", so I tried to manually run popcon-
  upload with "-u http://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi". Turns
  out, it works:

  marc at ellen:~$ /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload -u
  http://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi -f /var/log/popularity-
  contest.new -C -d

  I suppose this is globally broken since the URL was changed to https,
  but the script was not updated to support https.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
  Package: popularity-contest 1.67ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-8.9-generic 5.0.1
  Uname: Linux 5.0.0-8-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu23
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: LXQt
  Date: Mon Apr  1 21:10:33 2019
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-20 (1166 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: popularity-contest
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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