[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#339059: mailman: Mailman/debconf forgets answer to language list question at install time

[Frederic Daniel Luc LEHOBEY]

Package: mailman
Version: 2.1.5-8sarge3
Followup-For: Bug #339059

Hi,

I am expriencing the very same bug with both the sarge and sid 
(1:2.1.8-2) versions of mailman.

I can reproduce it on sid with a purge / install cycle.

In the following, I have chosen only `fr' as language in the debconf 
question.

Paramétrage de mailman (2.1.5-8sarge3) ...
Looking for enabled languages (this may take some time) ... done.
Installing site language en ............................................ 
done.
Configuring mailman for domain poussiere ...
Mise à jour de la version 0x0 vers 0x20105f0
suppression des anciens fichiers sources
Site list for mailman (usually named mailman) missing
Please create it; until then, mailman will refuse to start

(and not `fr' as site language.)

As already stated earlier in this bug report a dpkg-reconfigure mailman 
works around it.

Thanks for your work on mailman,
Frédéric Lehobey

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: sparc (sparc64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-sparc64
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  apache [httpd]        1.3.33-6sarge3     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.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  logrotate             3.7-5              Log rotation utility
ii  pwgen                 2.03-1             Automatic Password generation
ii  python                2.3.5-2            An interactive high-level object-o
ii  sendmail-bin [mail-tr 8.13.4-3sarge3     powerful, efficient, and scalable 
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:
* mailman/create_site_list: