[Pkg-mailman-hackers] mailman: fix for 412142 gives unicodify_archives traceback

[Paul Wise]

Hi all,

The other day due to hardware issues, we migrated lists.indymedia.org
data from mailman 2.1.7 to 2.1.9. I ran the postinst manually since we
installed etch instead of sarge. Unfortunately, the unicodify_archives
script gave a traceback:

# /var/lib/mailman/bin/withlist --all -q -r unicodify_archives
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/withlist", line 297, in ?
    main()
  File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/withlist", line 272, in main
    r = [do_list(listname, args, func) for listname in Utils.list_names()]
  File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/withlist", line 201, in do_list
    return func(m, *args)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/unicodify_archives.py", line 60, in unicodify_archives
    h.database.mapKeys(unicodify_fst, archive, hdr)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 341, in mapKeys
    self.__openIndices(archive)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 251, in __openIndices
    t = DumbBTree(os.path.join(arcdir, archive + '-' + i))
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 65, in __init__
    self.load()
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 179, in load
    self.__sort(dirty=1)
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/HyperDatabase.py", line 73, in __sort
    self.sorted.sort()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe1 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

After that I modified the script to print the list, archive period and
header when tracebacks are encountered in unicodify_archives on line 60:

Error: list imc-hungary archive 2006-February hdr subject
Error: list imc-hungary archive 2006-February hdr author
Error: list imc-france-lille archive 2007-April hdr subject
Error: list imc-france-lille archive 2007-April hdr author
Error: list cmi-brasil-contato archive 2006-February hdr subject
Error: list cmi-brasil-contato archive 2006-February hdr author
Error: list bcn-trad archive 2005-December hdr subject
Error: list bcn-trad archive 2005-December hdr author

I can provide the archive/database for the three public lists -
cmi-brasil-contato has private archives. Please let me know which files
are needed. We will be able to use --wipe and therefore ignore this, but
it might be nice to fix this case for etch, if there is time left.

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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