[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Template files installed by mailman3 package are empty for some languages

[Pierre-Elliott Bécue]

Hello,

Elias Rudberg <elias at dfri.se> wrote on 10/10/2026 at 14:47:09+0200:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using the mailman3 Debian package and recently it happened that Swedish
> language was selected by an admin, which had the effect that emails sent by
> mailman to users (for example the "Your confirmation is needed to join..."
> emails) had an empty email body.
>
> This seems to be because the template files installed in
> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/templates/ are empty for some languages,
> including Swedish.
>
> For example this file is empty:
>
> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/templates/sv/list:user:action:subscribe.txt
>
> The corresponding English language file is not empty:
>
> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/templates/en/list:user:action:subscribe.txt
>
> The upstream git repo seems to have the file, it looks fine there:
>
> https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/blob/master/src/mailman/templates/sv/list:user:action:subscribe.txt
>
> But why is it not in the debian package?

The Debian package is from upstream release 3.3.10, where the file was empty:

https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/blob/v3.3.10/src/mailman/templates/sv/list:user:action:subscribe.txt?ref_type=tags

At some point we will release a new upstream version.

Bests,

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PEB
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