[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#412142: Upgrade from sarge to etch makes pipermail archives stop working

[EspeonEefi]

On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 14:16 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 06:16:54PM -0500, EspeonEefi wrote:
> 
> > We recently moved our mailing lists from an old server running sarge
> > to a new server running etch. We migrated the lists by simply
> > copying all the data in /var/lib/mailman/ over.
> 
> > We ended up regenerating the archives of the broken lists with a
> > /var/lib/mailman/bin/arch --wipe <listname>.
> 
> Well, if you could get me a copy of the /var/lib/mailman/ data of a
> list where the problem was showing up _before_ the arch --wipe, it
> would help me test a tentative fix.

I'm sending over a tar of
the /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/<listname>/ folder from before the
arch --wipe (under separate cover). Is this all you need, or are there
other mailman files you'd like a copy of?

Note how in the archive index by thread for February 2007 ends on the
11th. The date index also ends on the 11th except for one message from
the 17th, which is the day that this snapshot of the archives was taken.
We speculate that in the date archive, it just repeatedly overwrote the
last message link with the newest message to arrive, whereas the thread
update simply failed completely.

-- eefi