[Mailman-Users] bin/upgrade has been broken since 2.1.5 (orpossibly longer)

[Barry Finkel]

Knut Auvor Grythe <knut at auvor.no> wrote, in part,

>This week, when attempting to upgrade further to Ubuntu Hardy, with
>Mailman 2.1.9, the upgrade script crashed as soon as it reached one of
>these lists, without releasing the lock. The attached patch is what I
>used to be able to upgrade cleanly from the previously corrupted data.

Are you installing from source or using the Debian/Ubuntu package?
If the latter, remember that there are a number of Debian/Ubuntu
patches applied to the source.  When I looked at the patches, I
was not sure what many of them did, and I was not sure of the code
base upon which these patches were built.  IIRC, one patch referred
to 2.1.4 code.  That is why I built my own package from the SourceForge
source; my management would not let me install the source without a
package.
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