[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#365258: mailman (2.1.5-8sarge2): wrong config --with-mail-gid

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:55:18PM +0200, Oliver Rompcik wrote:
> Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 09:59:27PM +0200, Oliver Rompcik wrote:

>>> There's a wrong config option in debian/rules:
>>> mailman is configured --with-mail-gid=daemon though it runs under
>>> gid list, therefore it should be configured --with-mail-gid=list

>> And what horrible practical consequences does this "wrongness" have?

> Because the owner of the aliases.db is `list', Postfix will execute 
> Mailman's wrapper program as uid and gid list.

You may think I'm repeating myself, but what horrible practical
consequences does this have? What doesn't work that should work? What
file gets the wrong content or metadata?

-- 
Lionel