[Mailman-Users] No hitches

Barry Finkel b19141 at britaine.ctd.anl.gov
Wed Apr 11 18:34:16 CEST 2007 

Paul Tomblin <ptomblin at xcski.com> wrote:

>Debian just marked Debian 4.0 (etch) as stable, so I upgrade my Debian 
>3.1 (sarge) colo box to Debian 4.0.  Along the way, it upgraded Mailman 
>from 2.1.5 to 2.1.9.  Just wanted to let anybody else contemplating such 
>an upgrade that it went without a hitch.  The stage where it says 
>"Updating old qfiles" takes rather a long time, but it eventually 
>finishes.  Mail continues to flow, the web interface works, the archives 
>work.

>From my experience with Ubuntu/Debian distributions, just because it
is labelled 2.1.9 does not mean that the distribution was built from
the SourceForge 2.1.9 source tree.  As I could not guarantee that the
Ubuntu/Debian package was the real 2.1.9 source, I built a package
from the 2.1.9 source tree.

I tried a build on dapper using a 2.1.9 edgy-backport distribution.
This was supposedly a 2.1.9 source tree.  I saw these patch files:

     debian/patches/00_stolen_from_HEAD.patch
     debian/patches/01_defaults.debian.patch
     debian/patches/07_snooze.patch
     debian/patches/10_wrapper_uid.patch
     debian/patches/11_handle_propfind.patch
     debian/patches/15_mailmanctl_daemonize.patch
     debian/patches/16_update_debian.patch
     debian/patches/20_qmail_to_mailman.debian.patch
     debian/patches/21_newlist_help.patch
     debian/patches/30_pipermail_threads.patch
     debian/patches/32_MIME_fixup.patch
     debian/patches/51_nocompile.pyc.patch
     debian/patches/52_check_perms_lstat.patch
     debian/patches/53_disable_addons.patch
     debian/patches/56_fix_de_broken_links.patch
     debian/patches/58_fix_es_translation.patch
     debian/patches/59_fix_missing_language_crash.patch
     debian/patches/61_fix_ru_siteowner.patch
     debian/patches/62_new_list_bad_pending_requests.patch
     debian/patches/63_update_default_server_language.patch
     debian/patches/64_correct_html_nesting.patch
     debian/patches/65_handle_templates_directories.patch
     debian/patches/66_donot_let_cache_html_pages.patch
     debian/patches/67_update_handle_old_versions.patch
     debian/patches/70_invalid_utf8_dos.patch
     debian/patches/71_date_overflows.patch
     debian/patches/72_fblast_add_shebang.patch
     debian/patches/74_admin_non-ascii_emails.patch
     debian/patches/77_header_folding_in_attachments.patch
     debian/patches/78_DeprecationWarning.patch
     debian/patches/79_archiver_slash.patch
     debian/patches/80_fix_string_search.patch
     debian/patches/99_js_templates.patch

I stopped building the process when I discovered that the patch
process had changed from dapper to edgy, and I was not sure how
to handle the changes in dapper.  And for most of the patches, there
was no cross-reference to a Debian patch number, so I could not
tell the reason for the patch without close examination of the source
code.  I did not do this because I have learned from this mailman-users
list that complete help is not available here for non-standard source
modifications.

I did a build, using the Debian mailman_2.1.5-9ubuntu4.1 distribution
and using the SourceForge 2.1.9 source tree.  I saw these patches:

     debian/patches/00_stolen_from_HEAD.dpatch
     debian/patches/01_defaults.debian.dpatch
     debian/patches/02_CAN-2004-1177_driver_css.dpatch
     debian/patches/03_CAN-2004-1143.dpatch
     debian/patches/04_CAN-2005-0202.dpatch
     debian/patches/05_config_list_member_options.dpatch
     debian/patches/07_snooze.dpatch
     debian/patches/10_wrapper_uid.dpatch
     debian/patches/11_handle_propfind.dpatch
     debian/patches/12_savannah_wrapper.dpatch
     debian/patches/15_mailmanctl_daemonize.dpatch
     debian/patches/16_update_debian.dpatch
     debian/patches/20_qmail_to_mailman.debian.dpatch
     debian/patches/21_newlist_help.dpatch
     debian/patches/23_fix_urls.dpatch
     debian/patches/30_pipermail_threads.dpatch
     debian/patches/31_buggy_queuefiles.dpatch
     debian/patches/32_MIME_fixup.dpatch
     debian/patches/50_README.EXIM.paths.dpatch
     debian/patches/50_README.POSTFIX.dpatch
     debian/patches/51_nocompile.pyc.dpatch
     debian/patches/52_check_perms_lstat.dpatch
     debian/patches/53_disable_addons.dpatch
     debian/patches/56_fix_de_broken_links.dpatch
     debian/patches/57_fix_missing_da_template.dpatch
     debian/patches/58_fix_translations.dpatch
     debian/patches/59_fix_missing_language_crash.dpatch
     debian/patches/60_french_archtocentry.dpatch
     debian/patches/61_fix_ru_siteowner.dpatch
     debian/patches/62_new_list_bad_pending_requests.dpatch
     debian/patches/63_update_default_server_language.dpatch
     debian/patches/64_correct_html_nesting.dpatch
     debian/patches/65_donot_add_empty_cc.dpatch
     debian/patches/65_handle_templates_directories.dpatch
     debian/patches/66_donot_let_cache_html_pages.dpatch
     debian/patches/67_update_handle_old_versions.dpatch
     debian/patches/68_python24_bouncehandler_datetime.dpatch
     debian/patches/68_translation_update_nl.dpatch
     debian/patches/70_invalid_utf8_dos.dpatch
     debian/patches/71_invalid_date_dos.dpatch
     debian/patches/72_mime_None_payload.dpatch
     debian/patches/99_js_templates.dpatch
     debian/patches/XX_po-debconf_hack.dpatch
     debian/patches/handle-from-in-non-ascii.dpatch
     debian/patches/security-CVE-2006-2941.dpatch
     debian/patches/security-CVE-2006-3636-XSS.dpatch
     debian/patches/security-error_log.dpatch

Of the three three security patches added to the 2.1.5 source, two
matched the SourceForge patches and one did not match - the patch
was placed in a different source file.  Out of all of these patches,
the only one I kept was 

     01_defaults.debian

that changes Defaults.py.in in three places:

     -IMAGE_LOGOS = '/icons/'
     +IMAGE_LOGOS = '/doc/mailman/images/'

     -DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/'
     +DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/cgi-bin/mailman/'

     -PIDFILE = os.path.join(DATA_DIR, 'master-qrunner.pid')
     +PIDFILE = "/var/run/mailman/mailman.pid"

I kept this patch because I wanted the install to place the resulting
files in the directories where Debian/Ubuntu expected them.
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Barry S. Finkel
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