[Mailman-Developers] Patch for making digest_arch a bit less stupid

Barry A. Warsaw barry@digicool.com
Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:03:24 -0500


>>>>> "TFH" == Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no> writes:

    TFH> I don't use it, but I have a bug report about "mailman
    TFH> archiver not handling years like '100'".

    TFH> And the patch needs a fix :/

    |  --- bin/digest_arch~	Tue Mar 21 07:26:18 2000
    |  +++ bin/digest_arch	Sat Mar 24 01:14:51 2001
    |  @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
    |       last_dow = days_of_week.index(dow)

    |       if len(year) == 2:
    | -	year = '19' + year
    | +	year = 1900 + int(year) # some MUAs are stupid

    TFH> If this isn't used at all any more, I'll just close the bug
    TFH> report, and you can ignore this patch.

I've applied the patch, but not tested it, since digest_arch is
deprecated.  You can go ahead and close the debian bug.  Other than
this, Mailman 2.x's archiver should handle dates < 100 "properly".

Thanks,
-Barry