[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#365881: mailman: newlist creates incorrect link to admin/info pages

[Kevin Coyner]

Package: mailman
Version: 2.1.5-8sarge2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch


When invoking 'newlist', an email is generated that is sent to the list owner.
An incorrect link to the admin webpage is included in that email.  Example:

http://lists.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/mailmanadmin/myNewList

It should read:

http://lists.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/myNewList

Note the addition of the slash between mailman and admin.

This link (and a couple others) are generated from the variable
DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN in /etc/mm_cfg.py.  

During mailman installation the postinst script copies
/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py.dist to /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py.

/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py.dist needs to be changed as follows:

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< DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/cgi-bin/mailman'
---
> DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/cgi-bin/mailman/'

Simply add the slash to the end of the line.

Kevin



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  apache [httpd]        1.3.33-6sarge1     versatile, high-performance HTTP s
ii  cron                  3.0pl1-86          management of regular background p
ii  debconf               1.4.30.13          Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  logrotate             3.7-5              Log rotation utility
ii  postfix [mail-transpo 2.1.5-9            A high-performance mail transport 
ii  pwgen                 2.03-1             Automatic Password generation
ii  python                2.3.5-2            An interactive high-level object-o
ii  ucf                   1.17               Update Configuration File: preserv

-- debconf information:
* mailman/queue_files_present:
  mailman/default_server_language: en
  mailman/gate_news: false
* mailman/site_languages: en
* mailman/used_languages: en
* mailman/create_site_list:
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< DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/cgi-bin/mailman'
---
> DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/cgi-bin/mailman/'