Package: sympa Severity: important
The sympa package in Debian uses the wrong value for EXPLDIR in Constants.pm; per sympa documentation about virtual hosts, this directory must be the list_data subdirectory of the sympa data directory, see http://www.sympa.org/manual/virtual-hosts For the Debian configured package, this would mean /var/lib/sympa/list_data Instead, the Constants.pm file shipped with all versions of the sympa package I could check contains the line use constant EXPLDIR => '/var/lib/sympa'; This is a significant deviation from the architecture of the file system used in sympa upstream, and has two major negative effects: - it renders the official documentation useless: I spent several hours tracking down this issue, and I am sure any other user willing to exploit sympa's virtual hosts facility will have a similar headache; - it has potential dangerous consequences: the /var/lib/sympa/list_data must only contain virtual host domains, and the sympa code iterates on the files therein; /var/lib/sympa contains a lot of other data unrelated to virtual hosts I would suggest checking carefully where this erroneous configuration comes from (looking at the sources of the modified Debian sympa I could not find where list_data disappears) -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
