[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#398771: installing mailman with python 2.3 causes loop condition during python upgrade

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

severity 398771 serious
thanks

This bug, in my opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release with
etch. It breaks upgrades from sarge to etch, if I understand well.

There is probably verbiage in the policy / RC policy to support that,
but I'm too lazy to dig it out.

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 04:44:09PM +0300, Alex Kuklin wrote:

> Configuring python (2.4.4-1) ...
> running python rtupdate hooks for python2.4...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/py_compile.py", line 115, in compile
>     f = open(file, 'U')
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py'
> error running python rtupdate hook python-support

That file usually is a symlink to /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py, a
configuration file. I'm not terribly convinced it should be compiled
at all, actually. It is a bug for it to be compiled unless it is
*automatically* read from source when the source is newer than the
compiled version. Any python expert could tell me whether it is the
case?

Alex, you did have the file /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py, right?

-- 
Lionel