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

[Lazarus Long]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 04:57:37PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
 > > send a patch to the python-patches list. In the mean time you can apply the
 > > patch mentioned in that posting, to your own copy of nntplib, as long as you
 > > dont use nntplib in server mode anywhere (Not very likely, that last part)
 > 
 > That is for the reporter of the problem... But I need to make a fix in the
 > mailman .deb package for debian potato before potato is released... :)

Following up to what I've received here so far on this thread (some of
which I appear to have missed, judging by quoted portions) I am running
current standard versions of most of the involved packages here on a
Debian system, including INN2 as the NNTP daemon, so I imagine standard
commands are supported.

In case specifics are useful to anyone, here is a list which I hope
covers all potentially-involved packages based upon Debian package
dependency information.  I'll include those I suspect are irrelevant,
in case I am wrong, in the interest of completeness.

||/ Name                        Version                     Description
+++-===========================-===========================-======================================================================
ii  task-news-server            2.2.2.2000.01.31-1          USENET News Server
ii  inn2                        2.2.2.2000.01.31-1          News transport system `InterNetNews' by the ISC and Rich Salz
ii  libc6                       2.1.2-13                    GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
ii  libgdbmg1                   1.7.3-26.2                  GNU dbm database routines (runtime version). [libc6 version]
ii  cron                        3.0pl1-55                   management of regular background processing
ii  postfix-tls                 0.0.19991231pl02+0.51-1     A mail transport agent with RFC2487 encryption
ii  time                        1.7-8                       The GNU time command.
ii  inn2-inews                  2.2.2.2000.01.31-1          NNTP client news injector, from InterNetNews (INN)
ii  grep                        2.4-2                       GNU grep, egrep and fgrep.
ii  perl-5.005                  5.005.03-5.3                Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Language.
ii  python-base                 1.5.2-6                     An interactive object-oriented scripting language.
ii  libncurses4                 4.2-8                       Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  libreadlineg2               2.1-17                      GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libraries. [libc6]
ii  mailman                     1.1-2                       Powerful, web based list processor
ii  logrotate                   3.2-11                      Log rotation utility
ii  apache                      1.3.9-10                    Versatile, high-performance HTTP server
ii  apache-ssl                  1.3.9.10+1.37-1             Versatile, high-performance HTTP server with SSL support

The original Debian bug report contained a similar list, but I would
imagine it was not included on this list, since there was question of
which NNTP commands were supported by the daemon in question.

BTW, mangling python-base to prevent server mode connections will
not be an option for me, nor would I imagine it to be acceptable for
Debian-as-a-whole, although I don't speak for the Debian project in
any way.

Thanks in advance for your collective efforts, on behalf of all of the
systems likely to be encountering this problem in the future (which
should include most that install mailman on a Debian box.)

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