[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#268117: mailman upgrade problems... error message is not clear

[Mourad De Clerck]

This bug seems to be ignored for quite a while now. I get the same
message on upgrade from 2.1.5-10 to 2.1.6-1:

> Old queue files present
>
> The directory /var/lib/mailman/qfiles contains files.  It needs to be
> empty for the upgrade work properly.  Please either flush the queue
> (by way of mailmanctl start, then stopping it and redoing the upgrade
> when it is finished) or remove those files.  Note that removing the
> files will lose some emails sent to lists.

These instructions plain don't work... combinations of
/etc/init.d/mailman start|stop or
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start|stop

do not seem to make the upgrade proceed normally afterwards. It would be
good if the postinst scripts would take account of this eventuality, or
at least provide the right set of instructions to be able to continue
without losing mail.

thanks,

-- Mourad DC