[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#502263: mailman: policy violation (9.1.1): writes to /usr when config changes

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

On Tue, February 10, 2009 20:20, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> Too late for lenny now, but it would be worth testing if installing a
> dangling symlink /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.pyc ->
> /var/cache/mailman/mm_cfg.pyc
> in the package would lead to python create and update the file there (as
> opposed to remove the symlink and create the file there).

> As you said in your other message, fixing that in python is even more
> groovy,

This, perhaps a bit dated, message from the Python team suggests that not
creating .pyc files at all may be an avenue to pursue:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2005/12/msg00016.html


Thijs