[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#614364: Bug#614364: mailman: show_qfiles does not work (for messages left by Lenny's mailman)

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Hi,

On Mon, February 21, 2011 15:12, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> While installing the latest security update, mailman complained about
> files in /var/lib/mailman/qfiles and suggested to use
> /var/lib/mailman/bin/show_qfiles to examine these files.
>
> However show_qfiles aborts with an error:
>
> almighty-bob:/var/lib/mailman# ./bin/show_qfiles qfiles/shunt/*.pck
> ====================>
> qfiles/shunt/1292597978.7239151+566547a3f5309c27ed7a2106d9f549766cd32fba.pck
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./bin/show_qfiles", line 95, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "./bin/show_qfiles", line 88, in main
>     sys.stdout.write(msg.as_string())
> AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'as_string'
>
> The message in question is not very old (17 Dec 2010), but I think it was
> still
> created with Lenny's version of mailman (we upgraded the host on that
> day).

I'm not sure that this is a bug. The upgrade process Lenny -> Squeeze will
have given the same debconf warning the securty update did, and it does
explain that the old queue files may not be compatible with the new
mailman version. If you chose 'continue regardless' in the upgrade, I
think this may be the expected behaviour.


Cheers,
Thijs