[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#982935: Bug#982935: Postorius & Hyperkitty -- broken Javascript (Bootstrap)? - disfunctional drop-down menus

[jonas]

Hey PEB,

Plesse don't upload yet. I've a few other fixes pending and would like to do some further testing before hands but won't make it before start of next week. Or I'll do another upload shortly after.

Cheers
 jonas


Am 3. März 2021 21:30:30 MEZ schrieb "Pierre-Elliott Bécue" <peb at debian.org>:
>Le vendredi 26 février 2021 à 13:06:12+0100, Wolfgang Walkowiak a écrit :
>> 
>> Packages: python3-django-postorius, python3-django-hyperkitty
>> Version: 1.3.4-1
>> 
>> Dear Debian maintainers for the packages postorius and hyperkitty,
>> dear Jonas, dear Matt,
>> 
>> we experienced similar issues with non-functional drop down menus
>> in mailman3-web after installing mailman3-full (version 3.3.3.1)
>> which includes the two packages mentioned above.
>> 
>> The hints in Jonas' response have been very useful.  Thank you!
>> However, this only fixed the issue for postorius, but not for hyperkitty. As
>> soon as we klicked on the archive link, the drop-down menus didn't function
>> any longer.
>> 
>> After we have replaced a couple more bootstrap related symlinks in
>> python3-django-hyperkitty with the js-files from the master branch
>> on gitlab and recollected and recompressed all static items, and
>> restarted mailman3-web it worked.  See our full recipe for obtaining
>> a mailman3-web interface with working drop-down menus below.
>> 
>> We would appreciate if the replacement of the bootstrap-related
>> javascript files in the postorius and hyperkitty packages by symlinks
>> to generic instances on the system could be reconsidered for the
>> next revision of these two Debian packages.
>> 
>> Thank you very much for maintaining these Debian packages,
>> 
>> w.w.
>> 
>> 
>> ----------
>> Details on our recipe (work-around) to fix the drop-down menus:
>> (For other users hitting the same issue.)
>> 
>> Replace the the symbolic links in python3-django-postorius from
>> upstream master following suggestion on bug report 982935 above:
>> 
>> # cd /usr/share/python3-django-postorius/static/postorius/libs/bootstrap/js
>> # mv bootstrap.min.js bootstrap.min.js.org
>> # wget https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/raw/master/src/postorius/static/postorius/libs/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.min.js
>> # cd /usr/share/python3-django-postorius/static/postorius/libs/jquery
>> # mv jquery-1.11.3.min.js jquery-1.11.3.min.js.org
>> # wget https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/raw/master/src/postorius/static/postorius/libs/jquery/jquery-1.11.3.min.js
>> # cd /usr/share/python3-django-postorius/static/postorius/libs/html5shiv
>> # mv html5shiv.js html5shiv.js.org
>> # mv html5shiv.min.js html5shiv.min.js.org
>> # wget https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/raw/master/src/postorius/static/postorius/libs/html5shiv/html5shiv.js
>> # wget https://gitlab.com/mailman/postorius/-/raw/master/src/postorius/static/postorius/libs/html5shiv/html5shiv.min.js
>> 
>> Replace the bootstrap.js and bootstrap.min.js links from the upstream master:
>> 
>> # cd /usr/share/python3-django-hyperkitty/static/hyperkitty/libs/bootstrap/javascripts
>> # mv bootstrap.js bootstrap.js.org
>> # mv bootstrap.min.js bootstrap.min.js.org
>> # wget https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty/-/raw/master/hyperkitty/static/hyperkitty/libs/bootstrap/javascripts/bootstrap.min.js
>> # wget https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty/-/raw/master/hyperkitty/static/hyperkitty/libs/bootstrap/javascripts/bootstrap.js
>> 
>> Afterwards, using the wrapper script defined below, run:
>> 
>> # mailman-web collectstatic --no-input -v 1 --clear
>> # mailman-web compress -v 1
>> # systemctl restart mailman3-web
>> 
>> Wrapper script /usr/local/sbin/mailman-web :
>> #!/bin/sh
>> su -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/share/mailman3-web/manage.py $*" www-data
>> 
>> (Would be useful if a script like this were included in the mailman3-web
>> packages as the mailman3 documentation often refers to it instead of to
>> the lenghty /usr/share/mailman3-web/manage.py etc.)
>
>Hi,
>
>There is a plan to keep using Debian's versions of the JS libs here.
>Bundled libs are a hell to sort out.
>
>Regarding the bug, it's due to the fact that now, hyperkitty and
>postorius are depending on bootstrap4 while we relink to bootstrap 3.
>
>I've made a patch that I'll upload soon for both packages.
>
>Sorry for the inconvenience.
>