[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#604522: mailman: Archiver splits messages on certain 'From'-initial lines; cf. GNU Mailman bug #620539.

[David Hilvert]

Package: mailman
Version: 1:2.1.11-11+lenny1
Severity: normal

Version of Mailman indicated in Debian is affected by the bug described in GNU
Mailman bug report #620539.  This bug report indicates that the problem may be
caused by a Debian patch.

Problem, as described, causes (at least) certain 'From'-initial lines to break
messages in the archiver, so that archived messages are not displayed
correctly.

As an example, the following two URLs are associated with a single message sent
to the mailing list; this message has been (incorrectly) split by the archiver.

http://ventricle.dyndns.org/pipermail/ale/2010-November/000709.html
http://ventricle.dyndns.org/pipermail/ale/2010-November/000710.html

The associated thread index is here, with the second part listed under the
subject 'No Subject'.

http://ventricle.dyndns.org/pipermail/ale/2010-November/thread.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.110           add and remove users and groups
ii  apache2                  2.2.9-10+lenny8 Apache HTTP Server metapackage
ii  apache2-mpm-worker [http 2.2.9-10+lenny8 Apache HTTP Server - high speed th
ii  cron                     3.0pl1-105      management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.24          Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4                    4.69-9          metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail 4.69-9          lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  libc6                    2.7-18lenny4    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  logrotate                3.7.1-5         Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-20          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  pwgen                    2.06-1          Automatic Password generation
ii  python                   2.5.2-3         An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support           0.8.4lenny2     automated rebuilding support for P
ii  ucf                      3.0016          Update Configuration File: preserv

mailman recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mailman suggests:
pn  listadmin                 <none>         (no description available)
ii  lynx                      2.8.7dev9-2.1  Text-mode WWW Browser (transitiona
ii  spamassassin              3.2.5-2+lenny2 Perl-based spam filter using text 

-- debconf information:
  mailman/gate_news: false
* mailman/site_languages: en
  mailman/queue_files_present: abort installation
* mailman/used_languages:
* mailman/create_site_list:
* mailman/default_server_language: en