Jesper Dybdal wrote: > >I think you've diagnosed the problem. There is a pythonlib directory, >but it is empty.
Note that the Debian/Ubuntu Mailman package deletes mailman/pythonlib/ Mark Sapiro replied to a posting Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:48:30 -0800: >Some additional information: > >This is mailman 2.1.8-2ubuntu2. > >The reference to the 'bug fix' is at ><http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/m/mailman/mailman_2.1.8-2ubuntu2/changelog> >in which is found > > * Make sure we don't ship /var/lib/mailman/pythonlib, should make that > go away on installations which already have it (closes: #242740). > >(I couldn't find a description of #242740). > >The above change seems to have been made some time ago, so perhaps the >issue is caused by some more recent change to the Ubuntu Python email >library. And Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com> replied Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:08:51 -0500 >That looks to be from the Debian Mailman package, which Ubuntu uses as >it's base. See the long trail here: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=242740 > >The short summary for the bug is "bad installation when >/var/lib/mailman/pythonlib is a symlink." > >(I've never found the Debian bugs page very easy to follow. :) I do not know how the original poster (OP) is building and installing Mailman. This removal of pythonlib is one of the reasons I decided to build my own Mailman package for Ubuntu from the SourceForge source. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 222, Room D209 Internet: bsfin...@anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
