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

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Package: mailman
Version: 1:2.1.13-4.1
Severity: minor

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).

Regards,
Ansgar

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  apache2-mpm-itk [httpd] 2.2.16-6         multiuser MPM for Apache 2.2
ii  cron                    3.0pl1-116       process scheduling daemon
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.36.1         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  logrotate               3.7.8-6          Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  postfix [mail-transport 2.7.1-1          High-performance mail transport ag
ii  pwgen                   2.06-1+b1        Automatic Password generation
ii  python                  2.6.6-3+squeeze5 interactive high-level object-orie
ii  python-support          1.0.10           automated rebuilding support for P
ii  ucf                     3.0025+nmu1      Update Configuration File: preserv

mailman recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mailman suggests:
ii  listadmin                   2.40-4       command line mailman moderator que
ii  lynx                        2.8.8dev.5-1 Text-mode WWW Browser (transitiona
pn  spamassassin                <none>       (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/mailman/apache.conf changed [not included]

-- debconf information excluded