Pierre-Elliott Bécue <becue@crans.org> wrote:
Hi Pierre,
Before requesting for sponsorship, and packaging officially the other components of mailman3, I'd like some "testers" for the core package I built, in order to be sure that it works, and that I will not introduce some stupid caveats on the packaging of the other components.
.deb can be found here: http://peb.pimeys.fr/mailman/mailman3-core/ git repo can be found there: https://gitlab.pimeys.fr/PEB/mailman3-core and there: https://github.com/P-EB/mailman3-core
Any volunteer welcome! Please, I need your help, I cannot review my work alone! :)
I just tried to have a look in a stretch docker image.
There are three .deb files on your webserver
mailman3-core_3.0.0-1_all.deb mailman3-core_3.0.0-3_all.deb mailman3-core_3.0.0-3_amd64.deb
It is not immediately obvious which one to test, since -1 has actually a newer timestamp.
Mailman Core 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 have been released in the meantime
it does not work on stretch/sid because it is not compatible with Python 3.5, see https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/issues/181
it does not install on Jessie (even with jessie-backports because of missing dependencies) (just a note because of not working on stretch either)
The systemd unit won't work because the parameter for the configuration file is '-C', not '-c'
installing python3.4 and changing the shebang in /usr/bin/mailman leads to the following error
root@4ca9477a166c:~# /usr/bin/mailman -C /etc/mailman3/mailman.cfg start Starting Mailman's master runner /usr/bin/python3.4: can't open file '/var/lib/mailman/bin/master': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
The files are installed in /var/lib/mailman3/bin, but bin_dir in /etc/mailman3/mailman.cfg points to /var/lib/mailman/bin ... both directories are wrong from my POV, it should probably be /usr/lib/mailman3 or something like that
Fixing this up leads to
root@4ca9477a166c:~# /usr/bin/mailman -C /etc/mailman3/mailman.cfg start Starting Mailman's master runner Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/lib/mailman3/bin/master", line 9, in <module> load_entry_point('mailman==3.0.0', 'console_scripts', 'master')() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mailman/bin/master.py", line 536, in main with open(config.PID_FILE, 'w') as fp: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/run/mailman3/master.pid'
because the directory does not exist. Since you are shipping a systemd unit only you should probably ship a .tmpfile as well.
I now have a running daemon. I haven't done anything with Mailman3 so far, so I need to read up on that first.
Bernhard