[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#893780: mailman3-suite: depends on incompatible version of python-django

[Bjoern Franke]

Package: mailman3-suite
Version: 0+20170523-9~bpo9+1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

Installing mailman3-suite

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

nothing further

   * What was the outcome of this action?

"TypeError: authenticate() takes exactly 0 arguments (3 given)" when
logging into postorious/hyperkitty

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

A sucessfull login,


Solution:

Installing python-django from backports fixes this issue, but
mailman3-suite pulls usually the stable and not the backports package.



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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mailman3-suite depends on:
ii  dbconfig-sqlite3          2.0.8
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.5.61
ii  init-system-helpers       1.48
ii  lsb-base                  9.20161125
ii  node-less                 1.6.3~dfsg-2
ii  python                    2.7.13-2
ii  python-django-hyperkitty  1.1.4-2~bpo9+2
ii  python-django-postorius   1.1.2-1~bpo9+1
ii  python-psycopg2           2.6.2-1
ii  python-whoosh             2.7.0-2
ii  python3-pymysql           0.7.10-1
ii  ruby-sass                 3.4.23-1
ii  ucf                       3.0036
ii  uwsgi                     2.0.14+20161117-3+deb9u1
ii  uwsgi-plugin-python       2.0.14+20161117-3+deb9u1

Versions of packages mailman3-suite recommends:
ii  nginx               1.10.3-1+deb9u1
ii  nginx-full [nginx]  1.10.3-1+deb9u1

Versions of packages mailman3-suite suggests:
pn  postgresql | default-mysql-server | virtual-mysql-server  <none>

-- debconf information:
  mailman3-suite/db/dbname: mailman3suite
  mailman3-suite/dbconfig-remove: true
  mailman3-suite/superuser-name: admin
  mailman3-suite/db/app-user: mailman3suite at localhost
  mailman3-suite/internal/reconfiguring: false
  mailman3-suite/restart-webserver: true
  mailman3-suite/remote/port:
  mailman3-suite/pgsql/authmethod-admin: ident
  mailman3-suite/pgsql/admin-user: postgres
  mailman3-suite/database-type:
  mailman3-suite/db/basepath: /var/lib/mailman3/web
  mailman3-suite/passwords-do-not-match:
  mailman3-suite/configure-webserver: none
  mailman3-suite/pgsql/no-empty-passwords:
  mailman3-suite/emailname: mail.ffnw.de
  mailman3-suite/pgsql/authmethod-user: password
* mailman3-suite/dbconfig-install: false
  mailman3-suite/dbconfig-upgrade: true
  mailman3-suite/pgsql/changeconf: false
  mailman3-suite/internal/skip-preseed: false
  mailman3-suite/mysql/admin-user:
  mailman3-suite/install-error: abort
  mailman3-suite/pgsql/manualconf:
  mailman3-suite/remote/newhost:
  mailman3-suite/remove-error: abort
  mailman3-suite/mysql/method: Unix socket
  mailman3-suite/upgrade-backup: true
  mailman3-suite/missing-db-package-error: abort
  mailman3-suite/superuser-mail: root at localhost
  mailman3-suite/pgsql/method: TCP/IP
  mailman3-suite/dbconfig-reinstall: false
  mailman3-suite/remote/host: localhost
  mailman3-suite/upgrade-error: abort
  mailman3-suite/purge: false