On 28 Jun 2003 12:44:44 -0400 Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> wrote:

On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 12:12, J C Lawrence wrote:

Something's wrong with the Mailman installation. I'm suspecting that the email package didn't get installed correctly and Message.py is using the email.Header module from whatever version of Python you're using. Look under /var/lib/mailman/pythonlib to see if email 2.5.x is installed.

I've seen this before and it always comes down to some Python rpm/package not being installed....

Excellent analysis Barry -- accurate and revealing.

Short version of the results:

The 2.1.2-2 Mailman package in /testing is broken in that it uses the floor operator, and yet the Python2.1 package shipped in /testing don't -- which means that the python2.1-email package in /testing fails to install properly due to you use of the floor // operator in _compat22.py.

Solution: upgrade python2.1 to /unstable and make sure that the python2.1-email package is installed.

Hopefully the Debian mailman maintainer will read this (I'll CC this to him later if he doesn't ack me here).

I hope to have time to spin 2.1.3 tomorrow.

It would help me if we could squeeze the Return-Path fix in there. TMDA requires a Return-Path header and the work-arounds for the Mailman/TMDA integration are ungraceful. I won't have time today, and likely not tomorrow either alas. If you could delay a bit I can likely do it in the early days of this week.

BTW I may finally be able to buy you some of those beers I owe you. I'm on a consulting gig in Groton CT these days (a long and dismal story). Where are you again?

-- J C Lawrence
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