Debian Bug report logs - #991908
popcon-upload: fails with https SUBMITURLS: Unable to parse url (unable to submit report)

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: popcon-upload: fails with https SUBMITURLS: Unable to parse url (unable to submit report)

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2021 01:42:03 +0200

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.71
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: tg@mirbsd.de

When SUBMITURLS has an https URL (or one not with http:// anyway,
see /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload line 38 for why,
submission fails; syslog has…

Aug  5 01:37:53 DESKTOP-PN6OO9E popularity-contest: unable to submit report to https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi.

(this is on a standard WSL system, but the bug is present in stock
Debian popcon-upload) and using popcon-upload’s -d option:

+ setsid /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload -d -u https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi -f /var/log/popularity-contest.new -C
Unable to parse url

This is probably more relevant to certain derivatives, but it will
impact #989082 negatively as well.

For completeness in case derivatives’ users stumble upon this:

tglase@DESKTOP-PN6OO9E:~ $ tail -1 /etc/popularity-contest.conf
SUBMITURLS=http://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi

This makes it succeed as that submit host seems to accept http.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
  APT prefers testing-security
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.77
ii  dpkg                   1.20.9

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron [cron-daemon]              3.0pl1-137
ii  gpg                             2.2.27-2
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]  3.5.6-1+b1

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii  anacron   2.3-30
pn  tor       <none>
pn  torsocks  <none>

-- debconf information:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
  popularity-contest/submiturls:

Message #10 received at 991908@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>

To: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>, 991908@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#991908: popcon-upload: fails with https SUBMITURLS: Unable to parse url (unable to submit report)

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2021 22:44:27 +0200

On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 01:42:03AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.71
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: tg@mirbsd.de
> 
> When SUBMITURLS has an https URL (or one not with http:// anyway,
> see /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload line 38 for why,
> submission fails; syslog has…
> 
> Aug  5 01:37:53 DESKTOP-PN6OO9E popularity-contest: unable to submit report to https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi.
> 
> (this is on a standard WSL system, but the bug is present in stock
> Debian popcon-upload) and using popcon-upload’s -d option:
> 
> + setsid /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload -d -u https://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi -f /var/log/popularity-contest.new -C
> Unable to parse url
> 
> This is probably more relevant to certain derivatives, but it will
> impact #989082 negatively as well.
> 
> For completeness in case derivatives’ users stumble upon this:
> 
> tglase@DESKTOP-PN6OO9E:~ $ tail -1 /etc/popularity-contest.conf
> SUBMITURLS=http://popcon.ubuntu.com/popcon-submit.cgi
> 
> This makes it succeed as that submit host seems to accept http.

Hello Thorsten,
For reasons explained in #989082, submitting via https is not supported.
PGP encryption is safer and more robust on popcon time scale.

Also, Ubuntu has stopped reporting to popcon.ubuntu.com.

Cheers,
Bill.

Message #15 received at 991908-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 991908-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#991908: fixed in popularity-contest 1.72

Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 18:35:16 +0000

Source: popularity-contest
Source-Version: 1.72
Done: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
popularity-contest, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 991908@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> (supplier of updated popularity-contest package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:02:22 +0200
Source: popularity-contest
Architecture: source
Version: 1.72
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Popularity Contest Developers <debian-popcon@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
Closes: 989082 990574 991908
Changes:
 popularity-contest (1.72) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Please note when reading stats that Bullseye was released with 1.71.
   * debian/postrm:
     - Also remove /var/lib/popularity-contest on purge.
       Closes: #990574.  Thanks Christoph Anton Mitterer.
   * debian/FAQ: Document why GPG encrypted submissions are preferable
     over using https.  Closes: #989082, #991908. Thanks Manolo Díaz.
   * debian/control:
     - Updated Standards-Version from 4.5.0 to 4.6.0.  No change needed.
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