daily emails to root with unnecessary warning messages

[jimav]

/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest generates many messages to be emailed to root every day.

It looks like it is trying to get information about packages whether or not they are installed? If so it should suppress the error/warning messages for missing packages (assuming they are really not anything which needs human attention).

Alternatively, if there really are missing packages which should be there, then there must be some missing dependencies somewhere.

--------------- mail from Anacron jog 'cron.daily' -------------------------

/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
Package `gtk2-engines-oxygen' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `ia32-libs-multiarch' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `libgail-common' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `libmikmod2' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `libqt4-scripttools' is not installed.
Package `libqt4-test' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `libsdl-image1.2' is not installed.
Package `libsdl-mixer1.2' is not installed.
Package `libsdl-net1.2' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `libssl0.9.8' is not installed.
Package `libstdc++5' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `nspluginviewer' 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.
Package `skype-bin' is not installed.
Package `sni-qt' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
Package `wine1.4-i386' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: popularity-contest 1.53ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Sep 8 18:20:36 2012
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: popularity-contest
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-08-10 (29 days ago)

[Logan Rosen (logan)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 858697, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.