Followup-For: Bug #291466 Package: mailman Version: 2.1.5-5.backports.org.3
mailman.preinst checks for any files under /var/lib/mailman/qfiles and aborts installation if any are found. Debconf message then advises to simply delete the qfiles if needs be. In many situations this is not a valid option (loss of mail). An alternative that should be documented is to first backup and remove the qfiles, perform the upgrade, then restore the backed up qfiles whilst mailman is NOT running, and then run /usr/lib/mailman/bin/update to ensure the qfiles are in latest format. After that mailman may safely be restarted. This worked for me anyway (upgrading backports version, but the fact it was a backport is irrelevant to this problem and suggested solution). -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux bowl 2.4.29 #1 SMP Wed Jan 19 17:44:40 GMT 2005 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB Versions of packages mailman depends on: ii apache 1.3.26-0woody6 Versatile, high-performance HTTP s ii apache [httpd] 1.3.26-0woody6 Versatile, high-performance HTTP s ii apache-ssl [httpd] 1.3.26.1+1.48-0woody3 Versatile, high-performance HTTP s ii cron 3.0pl1-72 management of regular background p ii debconf 1.2.35 Debian configuration management sy ii exim-tls [mail-tra 3.35-3woody3 Exim Mailer - with TLS (SSL) suppo ii libc6 2.2.5-11.8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii logrotate 3.5.9-8 Log rotation utility ii pwgen 2.01-3 Automatic Password generation ii python 2.1.3-3.2 An interactive object-oriented scr ii python2.2 2.2.1-4.7 An interactive object-oriented scr ii ucf 1.07 Update Configuration File: preserv -- - Athanasius = Athanasius(at)miggy.org / http://www.miggy.org/ Finger athan(at)fysh.org for PGP key "And it's me who is my enemy. Me who beats me up. Me who makes the monsters. Me who strips my confidence." Paula Cole - ME
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