[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#504695: mailman: README.Exim4.Debian has wrong group and router settings listed

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:32:07PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:40:32PM +0900, Kris Popendorf wrote:

>> The MAILMAN_GROUP line in the README.Exim4.Debian docs suggest a
>> wrong group line (the files it needs to read are gid list, not
>> daemon).

> Actually, because of a patch in the Debian package compared to
> upstream, the MAILMAN_GROUP (which originally is supposed to be the
> gid under which mailman has to run, nothing to do with any file it has
> to read) doesn't matter, as long as it is < 1000 (or < 500, I don't
> remember exactly). But yeah, "list" is more right than daemon in
> nitpicking-kind-of-way. Yes. (We already had that mentioned in another
> bug somewhere...)

OK, I checked the details:

 1) The debian-specific patch allows any group < 100

 2) Actually, as the comment right before the setting says, the
    original intention of that is to match what is passed as group to
    --with-mail-gid at configure-time. And in Debian, that is
    daemon. So the more-correct-in-nitpicking-kind-of-way is daemon,
    not list. But both will work just as well, it will make no
    functional difference.

    It is what group mailman expects the MTA to execute it (mailman)
    under.

>> --- old/README.Exim4.Debian	2008-11-06 19:27:56.739443959 +0900
>> +++ fixed/README.Exim4.Debian	2008-11-06 19:28:42.291445556 +0900
>> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
>>  # User and group for Mailman, should match your --with-mail-gid
>>  # switch to Mailman's configure script.
>>  MAILMAN_USER=list
>> -MAILMAN_GROUP=daemon
>> +MAILMAN_GROUP=list
>>  ----------------------  END EXIM4 MAIN    ----------------------------

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Lionel