[Mailman-Developers] Bug#57223: mailman: gate_news problems (fwd)

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GM" == Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@sztaki.hu> writes:

    GM> Hmm... I found what might cause this... this if from the
    GM> mailman list archives:
    GM> http://www.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/1999-October/002371.html

    GM> so does this mean that there was no workaround made for this
    GM> in mailman 1.1 ? Is there a patch somewhere perhaps ?

Since this is a bug that appears to be best fixed in Python's
nntplib.py, I will float the message to patches@python.org.  If nobody
objects I'll make the change for Python 1.6 and then back-copy the
file into Mailman 1.2.

The quick fix is to do the following:

- copy Python 1.5.2's nntplib.py into Mailman/pythonlib

- apply the patch

- Change all occurrances of "import nntplib" to
  "from Mailman.pythonlib import nntplib"

-Barry