On Oct 20, 2010, at 01:53 PM, Adam McGreggor wrote: >>It appears that 'official' Mailman packages for lenny are a wee bit >>behind upstream. >> >>I believe others on this list use the Umbungo packages on lenny >>(Debian 5), without too many difficulties. YMMV. >> >>(I don't really have the time to take on debian package maint, at the >>moment.)
Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> replied: >Sadly, I do not either, but I am willing to help anyone who steps >forward to do so. > >-Barry As I have posted before, I looked at the Debian packaging for Mailman, and I found there are lots of patches (most undocumented as to what they do). There was one patch that removed a library that may be needed. And one security of three I researched had different code in Debian/Ubuntu than in SourceForge. I assume that the Debian/Ubuntu patch that differed fixed the security problem, but I can not be sure. After following the discussions on mailman-users where users were running non-SourceForge code, I decided that I had to take the SourceForge code and build a Mailman package. It took me a while to discover exactly what to do, but once I did it (IIRC for 2.1.9), I have had no trouble building packages for 10 through 14. I can send my steps to anyone who wants them. My Mailman machines are still Ubuntu/dapper, but I assume that my steps would work unchanged on any later release of Debian/Ubuntu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 240, Room 5.B.8 Internet: [email protected] Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
