[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#443069: mailman: senddigests cron job: "TypeError: iso-8859-1"

[Julian Mehnle]

Joost van Baal wrote:
> FWIW, I've recently manually done:
>
>  ln -s /usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib /var/lib/mailman/pythonlib
>
> after such a Mailman upgrade.  It solved the shown errors from
> senddigests.
>
> Apparently, the postinst script fails to execute this under some
> circumstances.

Not only that, but on my system /var/lib/mailman/pythonlib is a (empty) 
directory owned by the package "mailman"!  Kind of difficult to place a 
symlink there when there's already a real directory of the same name.

However if I remove the empty dir and replace it with a symlink as you 
said, then it works:

| io:/usr/lib/mailman/cron> python
| Python 2.4.4 (#2, Aug 16 2007, 02:03:40)
| [GCC 4.1.3 20070812 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-15)] on linux2
| Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
| >>> import paths
| >>> import email
| >>> email.__version__
| '2.5.8'
| >>>

Thanks.  So I guess this issue boils down to the mailman package needing to 
install a symlink rather than a directory as /var/lib/mailman/pythonlib.
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