* (Barry A. Warsaw) | >>>>> "TFH" == Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no> writes: | | TFH> I am applying the following patch to the debian package of | TFH> mailman unless somebody screams loudly. It will close debian | TFH> bug #59359 ( http://www.debian.org/59359 ). | | Tollef, do you have a working URL for that? It comes up "not found" | for me. s/www/bugs/ sorry - a bit late in the evening. | | --- bin/digest_arch~ Tue Mar 21 07:26:18 2000 | | +++ bin/digest_arch Sat Mar 24 01:14:51 2001 | | @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ | | last_dow = days_of_week.index(dow) | | | if len(year) == 2: | | - year = '19' + year | | + year = 1900 + year # some MUAs are stupid | | I'd like to know what it fixes, but you should be aware that | bin/digest_arch is quite unmaintained. If you find it useful and that | patch makes sense, I'll integrate it with the current CVS tree. I've | never personally made any substantive change to that file. I don't use it, but I have a bug report about "mailman archiver not handling years like '100'". And the patch needs a fix :/ --- bin/digest_arch~ Tue Mar 21 07:26:18 2000 +++ bin/digest_arch Sat Mar 24 01:14:51 2001 @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ last_dow = days_of_week.index(dow) if len(year) == 2: - year = '19' + year + year = 1900 + int(year) # some MUAs are stupid and the line outfile.write("From %s %s %s %s %s %s\n" % (From, dow, mon, day, time, year)) needs to be changed to outfile.write("From %s %s %s %s %s %4d\n" % (From, dow, mon, day, time, year)) . If this isn't used at all any more, I'll just close the bug report, and you can ignore this patch. -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.