[Pkg-mailman-hackers] [Ssls-dev] mailman-ssls packaging and massive bugfixing work

[Joost van Baal]

Hi,

Op Mon 31 Jan 2011 om 03:54:56 +0100 schreef Thorsten Glaser:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> 
> > if you want to build a separate binary package
> > that includes the ssls patch you're welcome to do so.
> 
> I’ve been thinking about it, but that creates more burden
> on us because we cannot simply apply the patch from the
> mailman-ssls project (which needs to be the first in that
> case), change the entire packaging and build system, etc.
> 
> What do you think of the following solution (also, what
> would the mailman-ssls developers say to it)?
> 
> I apply all the patches I had (that are reasonable) to the
> Debian mailman package (and will maintain them for a fore-
> seeable future)

Do these patches fix actual bugs?  (The first mail in this thread seems to
indicate so.)  If so, why not reporting these bugs to e.g. the Debian BTS and
attach the patches to the bugreports?  If you're somewhat less overworked than
the Debian mailman hackers team, it's likely worthwhile ;-)

> , but revert the part of mailman-ssls that
> changes global defaults (such as archival). Instead, I’ll
> write a document detailing how to “secure” the installation
> for use with a Secure List Server.

Such a document, along with a less intrusive mailman-ssls patch, and optionally
a ready-to-install patched mailman .deb, is likely very useful for some
audience.  So: yes please go ahead.

Bye,

Joost

PS: an even more useful thing to do would be to port the patch to mailman 3.x.
This is likely the only way to get the patch ever accepted by the mailman
developers.

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