[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#384016: mailman: digests not being sent

[Simon Bonnick]

Package: mailman
Version: 1:2.1.8-2
Severity: important

Digest sending is generating an email like this:

Subject: Cron <list at ns0> [ -x /usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests ] && /usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 94, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 86, in main
    mlist.send_digest_now()
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Digester.py", line 60, in send_digest_now
    ToDigest.send_digests(self, mboxfp)
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 142, in send_digests
    send_i18n_digests(mlist, mboxfp)
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 324, in send_i18n_digests
    msg = scrubber(mlist, msg)
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 393, in process replace_payload_by_text(msg,
    sep.join(text), charset)
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/Scrubber.py", line 175, in replace_payload_by_text
    msg.set_payload(text, charset)
  File "email/Message.py", line 218, in set_payload
  File "email/Message.py", line 242, in set_charset
TypeError: us-ascii


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.97        Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache2                      2.0.55-4.1  next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd]  2.0.55-4.1  traditional model for Apache2
ii  cron                         3.0pl1-97   management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.3       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  logrotate                    3.7.1-3     Log rotation utility
ii  pwgen                        2.05-1      Automatic Password generation
ii  python                       2.4.3-11    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  sendmail-bin [mail-transport 8.13.7-2    powerful, efficient, and scalable 
ii  ucf                          2.0014      Update Configuration File: preserv

mailman recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  mailman/update_passwords:
* mailman/site_languages: en
* mailman/used_languages: en
* mailman/create_site_list:
* mailman/queue_files_present:
* mailman/default_server_language: en
  mailman/gate_news: false
  mailman/update_aliases: