[Mailman-Developers] Subscribers suddenly "disappear"

[Max Lanfranconi]

Woohooo!

Applied your patch and the bug is gone !

So far, so good.

Thanks Mark !


Much, much appreciated.

Max

Mark Sapiro wrote:
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> Mark Sapiro wrote:
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> | What I suggest for the moment is to just delete lines 594-603 of
> | Mailman/MailList.py which includes the following 4 lines and the
> | preceding comment.
> |
> |>>             mtime = os.path.getmtime(dbfile)
> |>>             if mtime <= self.__timestamp:
> |>>                 # File is not newer
> |>>                 return None, None
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>
> Ooops!. That won't quite do it. you can't just remove the
>
> ~             mtime = os.path.getmtime(dbfile)
>
> line as mtime is referenced later and will be undefined. A patch is
> attached which has been applied and tested. I ran the test script twice
> with this patch installed with no lost subscribers. It isn't the final
> patch which should remove __timestamp completely and won't remove all
> the comment, but it will do as a workaround.
>
> - --
> Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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