I have looked at this a bit more deeply, and while all I said in comment 2 is correct, there is another issue. Essentially all the issues reported by check_perms are innocuous and just reflect differences between "the Debian way" and standard GNU Mailman, these "fixes"
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private bad group (has: www-data, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman.mbox bad group (has: www-data, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman bad group (has: www-data, expected list) (fixing) /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman/index.html bad group (has: www-data, expected list) (fixing) will break public archive access. This is because the standard recommended ownership and mode for /var/lib/mailman/archives/private would be drwxrws--- www-data list but the Debian way is drwxrws--- list www-data While this might work, check_perms will change it to drwxrws--- list list which won't allow the web server to access public archives. See the Warning at <http://www.list.org/mailman-install/node9.html> for more detail. The bottom line is the standard check_perms should not be run against the Debian/Ubuntu package. Debian should either drop check_perms from the package or fix it to follow the Debian way. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to mailman in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1266288 Title: cannot install permissions correctly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mailman/+bug/1266288/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
