Package: mailman Version: 1:2.1.9-5 Followup-For: Bug #391700 As a followup to my previous message, on closer inspection, it turns out that my error is subtly different from the error in the initial bug report. It may be that this stuff should get split off into its own report.
We recently moved our mailing lists from an old server running sarge to a new server running etch. We migrated the lists by simply copying all the data in /var/lib/mailman/ over. Most of our lists are internal, but we noticed that a few of our lists stopped getting their pipermail archives updated at various times after the migration. These lists were specifically those which often receive foreign-language spam. Some extra searching about the problem turned up what seems to be a very relevant bug filed upstream [1]. In the discussion are pointers to a couple discussions on the mailman mailing lists about this bug. This message [2] is particularly interesting, because it speculates that "if you upgrade in the middle of a month, you get this problem in the database." [1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1246004&group_id=103&atid=100103 [2] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2006-February/018588.html These things pose a very interesting problem for sarge -> etch upgrades, and it should be addressed somehow. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages mailman depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii apache2 2.2.3-3.2 Next generation, scalable, extenda ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd] 2.2.3-3.2 Traditional model for Apache HTTPD ii cron 3.0pl1-100 management of regular background p ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii exim4 4.63-17 metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tr 4.63-17 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility ii lsb-base 3.1-22 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii pwgen 2.05-1 Automatic Password generation ii python 2.4.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-support 0.5.6 automated rebuilding support for p ii ucf 2.0018.1 Update Configuration File: preserv mailman recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * mailman/queue_files_present: * mailman/default_server_language: en (English) * mailman/gate_news: false * mailman/site_languages: en (English) * mailman/used_languages: en * mailman/create_site_list: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
