On May 11, 2012, at 02:15 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote: >I just installed, and just as promptly un-installed mailman on Ubuntu >server 10.04.4 LTS. The offered pacakge version of mailman for this >release, which I used, is 2.1.13-1. > >I have a few questions which perhaps someone could answer, if anyone >knows the thinking behind Canonical's (and the package maintainer's) >motives/reasons for what was done.
Unfortunately I can't provide any insight into the rationale, since (perhaps ironically ;) I don't participate in the maintenance of the Mailman package. I would just like to point out a few things that might be useful: - Canonical, or for that matter Ubuntu, isn't responsible for this change, since it comes straight from Debian. AFAICT, we carry no Ubuntu-specific deltas to the Debian package. I.e. it's a straight sync from Debian in Precise (12.04 LTS). AFAICT, Lucid (10.04.4 LTS) carries a couple of additional security updates, but this doesn't seem like the kind of change that would be made in a security update. - Probably the best way to get authoritative answers is to contact the Debian Mailman packaging team: pkg-mailman-hack...@lists.alioth.debian.org I don't know whether anyone from that team is on this list, or mailman-developers. Cheers, -Barry ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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
