[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#384016: Problems with digests

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

tags 384016 +pending
thanks

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:30:44AM +0200, Hans-Juergen Beie wrote:
> This is a hint of one of the mailman developers (Tokio Kikuchi) on the
> mailman-users at python.org list:

>>> The email-3.0.x in Python 2.4 is not suitable for mailman.
>>> Mailman 2.1.8(or 9) works best with the email-2.5.7(or 8) which is
>>> the bug fix version of Python 2.3 library.

I see. Indeed, the Debian package of Mailman disables the included
email package and uses the one from Python instead. I'm not sure why
precisely. I've switched it to using the Mailman fork of the email
package again.

>> I see. How can I fix that?

> I suspect the debian people have omitted the mailman-2.5.x package
> from their ports.

> In the mean time, you can extract email-2.5.x from our official
> distribution

It is in the Debian Mailman source package, just disabled in the
Makefile.

-- 
Lionel