[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Pkg-mailman commit - rev 152 - branches/pkg-split/core/debian
Bernd S. Brentrup
bsb@haydn.debian.org
Sun, 23 May 2004 04:10:57 -0600
Author: bsb
Date: 2004-05-23 04:10:46 -0600 (Sun, 23 May 2004)
New Revision: 152
Modified:
branches/pkg-split/core/debian/TODO
Log:
Keep TODO up to date.
Modified: branches/pkg-split/core/debian/TODO
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--- branches/pkg-split/core/debian/TODO 2004-05-23 09:59:32 UTC (rev 151)
+++ branches/pkg-split/core/debian/TODO 2004-05-23 10:10:46 UTC (rev 152)
@@ -7,11 +7,14 @@
- Split into mailman, mailman-bin, mailman-doc, mailman-i18n,
mailman-en. Changed mind: let the main package be arch-indep and
depend on arch-dep mailman-bin containing the wrapper binaries.
-* Partially done in Rev 79
+* Mostly done in Rev 130
-* As of Rev 79, individual files in /var/lib/mailman are symlinks to
- files installed in /usr/share/mailman as opposed to the previous
- approach symlinking directories.
+* As of Rev 130, symlinking /usr/lib/mailman from /var/lib/mailman
+ has been completely dropped. AFAICT, the only reason for this
+ was getting compiled versions of Mailman/mm_cfg.py which happens
+ automatically done when starting the daemon as root. In case
+ /usr is mounted readonly, temporarily mounting it rw and running
+ dpkg-reconfigure mailman will do the job.
- mailman.postinst should be better at building a new mm_cfg.py from
an existing configuration, in particular at removing obsolete vars.
@@ -20,6 +23,7 @@
For a starting point on how to detect user modifications to
mm_cfg.py, see debian/snippets/user_cfg.py
+* Mostly done in Rev 151
- Rewrite qmail-to-mailman.py to read configuration from mm_cfg.py
like postfix-to-mailman.py does, getting it out of /etc/mailman and
@@ -49,6 +53,7 @@
- If not installed, admin pages dealing with multilingual support must
be replaced by a hint to install mailman-i18n first.
+* done in Rev 149
- Guarantee mailman master qrunner starts only when either mailman-en
or mailman-i18n is fully configured. To get this fully working, use