Bugs item #1906368, was opened at 2008-03-03 17:20 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by porridge You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1906368&group_id=103 Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: command line scripts Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Closed Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Marcin Owsiany (porridge) Assigned to: Mark Sapiro (msapiro) Summary: newlist: preferred_language not put into available_languages Initial Comment: When I run newlist with -l pl, then preferred_language does get set to 'pl', but available_languages is set to just ['en']. This causes two problems for me: - editing the default language on the language properties page gets tricky (you need to apply the settings twice, going through a page in english). - the installation scripts logic in the debian package reads available_languages to find out which language message files to install. Not having the preferred language in the available list means I will have to jump through some extra tricky hoops to get it working properly. Also, the comment in the config file does say that the default language should be in the available languages list, so I guess some assumptions are made in other parts of the codebase, which will cause undesired behavior. I guess the best way to fix this is to create a proper mutator method which will contain some logic to also update the available_languages property if need be. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Comment By: Marcin Owsiany (porridge) Date: 2008-03-03 19:45

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1349753 Originator: YES Thanks for the patch and the quick response. This is really impressive! My problem with the debian installation scripts is somewhat complicated. What they do on install/upgrade, is first issue an interactive question for the list of languages to install, and then they automagically add to that list any languages that were not given, but are used by the existing mailing lists. This works fine for most users, but for me it would require some configuration preseeding, when building a machine with a pre-existing /var/lib/mailman (e.g. disaster recovery). Luckily, with your patch it should just do the right thing for me now. thanks again! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Mark Sapiro (msapiro) Date: 2008-03-03 18:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1123998 Originator: NO This is a bug in newlist fixed by the attached patch which will be in Mailman 2.1.10. The patch will add the selected language to available_languages if it is other than the server default language. As far as the Debian installation scripts logic is concerned, this is not something that the Mailman project has any control over, but I must not understand correctly in any case. It seems that you are saying that the package will not install any templates or message catalogs for languages that are not listed in available_languages of the existing lists, but this would result in a new installation containg support for only those languages listed as available for the packaged site list if that, so you must be saying something else. File Added: newlist.patch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1906368&group_id=103