[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Mailman 2 removal - transitional package

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Hi Andrew,

On Wed, April 29, 2020 16:24, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> I agree with the proposed changes in the circumstances but I am used to
> Mailman2 and Mailman3 configuration changes.  Are we expecting any upgrade
> magic to happen between transitioning to the new packages (I don't believe
> this is a good idea myself), and if not, what would happen on a distro
> version upgrade for someone currently running Mailman2?

I think users are expected to follow the migration procedure to Mailman 3
as published by the upstream project - we'll not invent anything ourselves
here.

The mailman2 package would be removed (or its contents at least) but your
lists and archives remain on disk.

I don't yet dare to say if that is enough to perform the migration after
upgrading to bullseye, that will need to be verified. However, any
scenario that requires MM 2 code to run is not feasible for bullseye since
that will not contain Python 2 at all. One other scenario is that people
need to perform the migration while still running buster.


Cheers,
Thijs