Bug#403312: [Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#403312: mailman: Upgrade from 1:2.1.8-3/1:2.1.9-2 to 1:2.1.9-3 broken

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On upgrade from a version between 1:2.1.8-3 and 1:2.1.9-2 to
> 1:2.1.9-3, the private copy of the pythonlib module email is not
> symlinked in /var/lib/mailman; that's because dpkg will not replace a
> directory by a symlink; we need to do it by hand in the postinst. And
> undo it if the install gets aborted. What fun.


Thanks for the quick fix! This didn't surface with me because I had
indeed forgotten to test upgrade, only tested the new install which
worked just fine.


Thijs