This thread began in June at <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2009-June/066410.html> and continued at <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2009-June/066415.html>
Gerrat Rickert wrote:
I have (a little) more info about this now, Mark (another list that this type of thing is happening on).
This was a posting on the twisted-python mailing list (on which I had the indentation issue):
I was reminded of this thread when I came across what appears to be the
same bug on the Tahoe list:
http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-July/thread.html
Notice multiple posts in threads they don't look like they belong to, as well as many threads which have nonsensical levels of indentation.
I'm not sure if anyone ever answered your question about twisted- python's mailman installation being "stock" or not. If not, then I think I can confirm that it is. There is also no configuration that would alter this behavior, as far as I know. We've probably set a few options via the admin interface, but I don't think any of those should affect this behavior.
Jean-Paul
The twisted python mailing list is running on: "unmodified mailman 1:2.1.9-9ubuntu1 install", and the Tahoe list is using: "2.1.9-4ubuntu1"
Could this be an ubuntu-specific issue?
Ubuntu is based on Debian.
I have just confirmed by testing that this problem is caused by the Debian Mailman patch "30_pipermail_threads.patch".
This patch can be found by following the links from <http://patch-tracking.debian.net/package/mailman> (I don't want to give a more specific URL because the URLs below this level are unstable).
Thus, the problem potentially exists in all Debian/Ubuntu Mailman packages. The patch attempts to fix Debian bug #167758 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=167758>, and it may do that, but it clearly breaks this.
I'll try to report this to Debian.
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