[Bug 1822672] Re: popularity-contest is broken due to a bad merge with debian

[Brian Murray]

If I recall correctly this was discussed at a Foundations team meeting
in September of 2019 where we decided not to prioritize fixing it
because it has been broken since 18.04 LTS and as far as we know nothing
is consuming the popcon data.

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Title:
  popularity-contest is broken due to a bad merge with debian

Status in popularity-contest package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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