[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#426744: Cronjob senddigests reports ValueError: timestamp out of range for platform time_t

[Bernie Hoeneisen]

Package: mailman
Version: 1:2.1.9-7
Severity: normal


Hi!

Every day I get a mail from cron daemon about a cronjob that has a problem:

  Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 12:00:04 +0200
  From: Cron Daemon <root at domain.tld>
  To: list at hdomain.tld
  Subject: Cron <list at bernie> [ -x /usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests ] && /usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests
  
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 94, in ?
      main()
    File "/usr/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests", line 86, in main
      mlist.send_digest_now()
    File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Digester.py", line 60, in send_digest_now
      ToDigest.send_digests(self, mboxfp)
    File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Handlers/ToDigest.py", line 112, in send_digests
      timetup = time.localtime(mlist.digest_last_sent_at)
  ValueError: timestamp out of range for platform time_t

Any idea how to avoid this?
(appart from filtering the email or make the cronjob less chatty...:-) )

cheers,
 Bernie

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.102        Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache [httpd]              1.3.34-4.1   versatile, high-performance HTTP s
ii  cron                        3.0pl1-100   management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.11       Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4                       4.63-17      metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-heavy [mail-tr 4.63-17      exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  logrotate                   3.7.1-3      Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-23.1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  pwgen                       2.05-1       Automatic Password generation
ii  python                      2.4.4-2      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support              0.5.6        automated rebuilding support for p
ii  ucf                         2.0020       Update Configuration File: preserv

mailman recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* mailman/site_languages: de, en
* mailman/used_languages: de en
* mailman/create_site_list:
* mailman/queue_files_present:
* mailman/default_server_language: en
* mailman/gate_news: false