[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#468569: no way to escape mailman/queue_files_present

[Marcin Owsiany]

Package: mailman
Version: 2.1.9-7

I am currently preparing an installation of mailman on our system. In
order to provide durability of the processed messages, we are going to
arrange for /var/lib/mailman to be located on a block-level replicated
filesystem.  Thus, if the box crashes, we will just mount the "safe"
filesystem on a fresh one and rebuild it (install packages and apply
configs).

However the current mailman's preinst makes it problematic, as it bombs
out if there are any queue files present. My guess is that it should be
safe to install the same version of the software as the one which
created the queue files? In that case it would really help if there was
a way to override this check in some way.

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