[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#603904: Bug#603904: Bug#603904: Bug#603904: Fresh installation of mailman has wrong permissions, causes archiving to fail

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2012, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:

> Indeed this entire bug stems from the conflict that there is between the
> need of Mailman to write to that directory (as list), and for Mailman (as
> www-data) to be able to read it.

How about we add a second group and patch upstream sources
to use that group in check_perms for the archive related
things, and add the list user and possibly the www-data
user to that automatically? (Ouch. More work. And upstream
isn’t going to like us poking around in mailman2 either.)

bye,
//mirabilos
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