[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#538817: Bug#538817: mailman incorrectly remembers old setting

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

On moandei 27 July 2009, Olaf Zaplinski wrote:
> I used to have mailman running at list1.foo.bar. After some time, I purged
> mailman. About half a year later I reinstalled mailman and configured it at
> list2.bar.foo.
>
> When I open my browser on http://list2.bar.foo/mailman/admin/mailman and
> klick on "General options", the URL changes to
> http://list1.foo.bar/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/mailman/general
>
> So when running dpkg -P mailman, not all config files are deleted.
>
> Which ones are these?

These are list-specific and stored under /var/lib/mailman/lists. We do not 
delete all existing mailinglists upon purge. Whether or not to delete 
such 'databases' which are not really configuration but more userdata upon 
purge is not really decided on within Debian.

How to change the URL for existing lists is detailed in the following FAQ 
entry:
http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030616

cheers,
Thijs
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