[Pkg-mailman-hackers] mailman-ssls packaging and massive bugfixing work

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Hi Thorsten,

On Thu, December 16, 2010 15:43, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> I’ve worked a while on the latest Mailman from Debian sid (with
> security fixes and everything) and the latest mailman-ssls patch
> to beat them into shape together, for example, translations, bug
> fixes with Inline PGP, encoding/charset fixes, etc. I’ve also
> converted this Mailman package to UTF-8 and applied a workaround
> for M*zilla-based browsers from Launchpad, since our boss insists
> on that. Finally I added code to emit a gpg.conf, SHA-2 signatures
> are “in” after all.

Thanks for your mail. I know of the ssls-patch. Your comments/fixes for
that I'll leave up to ssls upstream.

> Addressing the Mailman packagers in Debian (because they might
> want to pick the one or other patch, even if not the ssls part,
> although I can imagine making two binary packages); the ssls
> developer list, hopefully everyone gets this; Tonnerre who has
> first shown me the mailman-ssls patch. My boss knows I’m pub-
> lishing this. Also, feel free to bounce parts of it around.

As you may have notices the pkg-mailman-hackers list is a quiet affair.
I've been using a semi-policy for Debian patches to only patch important
bugs and let everything else be handled by upstream. This is motivated by
the fact that there's hardly anyone working on Mailman packaging in
Debian, adn there's quite some legacy in the current packaging, so I'd
rather not add more maintenance overhead if we can barely keep up with
what we have.

That said, you're wholeheartedly invited to become a committer on the
pkg-mailman project, and if you want to build a separate binary package
that includes the ssls patch you're welcome to do so. I would just like to
stress again the fact that there's not much maintenance power right now so
if you add such a thing I would hope that you would maintain it too.

Let me know your username if I should add you to the project.


Cheers,
Thijs