[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#369171: mailman: can't activate spamassassin plugin

[Bernhard Kuemel]

Package: mailman
Version: 2.1.8-1
Severity: normal


/usr/share/doc/mailman/README.Debian.gz suggests to add

GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(1, 'SpamAssassin')

to mm_cfg.py to activate the spamassassin plugin. On my system this
breaks mailman:

s:/etc/mailman# /etc/init.d/mailman start
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/list_lists", line 46, in ?
    from Mailman import mm_cfg
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py", line 20, in ?
    GLOBAL_PIPELINE.insert(1, 'SpamAssassin')
NameError: name 'GLOBAL_PIPELINE' is not defined
Site list for mailman (usually named mailman) missing
Please create it; until then, mailman will refuse to start
						

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.85       Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache [httpd]                1.3.34-2   versatile, high-performance HTTP s
ii  apache-ssl [httpd]            1.3.34-2   versatile, high-performance HTTP s
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd]   2.0.55-4   traditional model for Apache2
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-93  management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.72     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim [mail-transport-agent]   3.36-18    An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  logrotate                     3.7.1-2    Log rotation utility
ii  pwgen                         2.05-1     Automatic Password generation
ii  python                        2.3.5-5    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  ucf                           2.007      Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages mailman recommends:
ii  base-passwd                   3.5.11     Debian base system master password

-- debconf information:
  mailman/update_passwords:
* mailman/site_languages: cs, de, en, es, et, fi, fr, hu, it, lt, nl, no, pl, pt, pt_BR, ru, sv
* mailman/used_languages: cs de en es et fi fr hu it lt nl no pl pt pt_BR ru sv
* mailman/create_site_list:
* mailman/queue_files_present:
* mailman/default_server_language: en
* mailman/gate_news: false
  mailman/update_aliases: