[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#733475: mailmanctl dies silently, messages delayed until intervention

[Sven Strickroth]

Package: mailman
Version: 1:2.1.18-2
Followup-For: Bug #733475

Dear Maintainer,

I'm experiencing a very similar issue, but I think I have a reproducible way.
Whenever a python or libc update is installed and needrestart in my case
tries to restart mailman it dies and is not restarted until I manually
restart it. This happened several times for me causing lots of trouble.

I'm not sure whether this is this issue or  a very similar bug, but I hope it
helps to trace this down and fix it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  apache2 [httpd]        2.4.10-10+deb8u5
ii  cron                   3.0pl1-127+deb8u1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.56
ii  libc6                  2.19-18+deb8u5
ii  logrotate              3.8.7-1+b1
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii  python-dnspython       1.12.0-1
pn  python:any             <none>
ii  ucf                    3.0030

Versions of packages mailman recommends:
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]  2.11.3-1

Versions of packages mailman suggests:
pn  listadmin     <none>
ii  lynx          2.8.9dev1-2+deb8u1
ii  spamassassin  3.4.1-3~bpo8+1

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