Bug#398771: installing mailman with python 2.3 causes loop condition during python upgrade

2006-11-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
clone 398771 -1 reassign -1 python-support 0.5.5 retitle -1 python-support should warn and not fail when some files can't be byte-compiled thanks On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: This bug, in my opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release with etch. It breaks upgrades from

Bug#398771: installing mailman with python 2.3 causes loop condition during python upgrade

2006-11-23 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:42:10PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: That file usually is a symlink to /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py, a configuration file. I'm not terribly convinced it should be compiled at all, actually. Alex, you did have the file

Bug#398771: installing mailman with python 2.3 causes loop condition during python upgrade

2006-11-23 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:22:35PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:42:10PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: That file usually is a symlink to /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py, a configuration file. I'm not terribly convinced it

Bug#398771: installing mailman with python 2.3 causes loop condition during python upgrade

2006-11-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: I just checked, it is not a conffile. ... and not shipped by the package, but created by the postinst. Which means this also breaks _new_ installs as far as I understand it because if: - mailman gets unpacked _before_ - python2.4 gets

Bug#398771: installing mailman with python 2.3 causes loop condition during python upgrade

2006-11-23 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 03:55:15PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: I just checked, it is not a conffile. ... and not shipped by the package, but created by the postinst. Which means this also breaks _new_ installs as far as I understand it

Bug#398771: installing mailman with python 2.3 causes loop condition during python upgrade

2006-11-23 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 09:41:15PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 03:55:15PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: I just checked, it is not a conffile. ... and not shipped by the package, but created by the postinst. Which

Bug#398771: installing mailman with python 2.3 causes loop condition during python upgrade

2006-11-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: Ah, I think I have it. We can remove the symlink in pre-rtupdate and put it back in post-rtupdate. That takes care of python version updates. Now, for new installs... Python will guaranteed be configured before us, so indeed creating the symlink

Bug#398771: installing mailman with python 2.3 causes loop condition during python upgrade

2006-11-16 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
severity 398771 serious thanks This bug, in my opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release with etch. It breaks upgrades from sarge to etch, if I understand well. There is probably verbiage in the policy / RC policy to support that, but I'm too lazy to dig it out. On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at

Bug#398771: installing mailman with python 2.3 causes loop condition during python upgrade

2006-11-15 Thread Alex Kuklin
Package: mailman Version: 1:2.1.9-2 Severity: important Configuring python (2.4.4-1) ... running python rtupdate hooks for python2.4... Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/sbin/update-python-modules, line 268, in ? bytecompile_privatedir(basedir) File