"Gerrat Rickert" <grickert@coldstorage.com> wrote:

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?

I have not included the initial part of this thread, as my reply is "generic". I have looked at Debian/Ubuntu packaging, and there are a large number of patches included in any Debian/Ubuntu Mailman package. There are fewer for 2.1.12 than for previous releases.

A 2.1.9 package has 43 patches. A 2.1.5 package has 47 patches. When I was building my own Ubuntu package from the SourceForge source, I looked at each one of these patches. Most were undocumented; there was no reference to a Debian/Ubuntu bug number. The only one I kept was one that placed files in the "proper" directories for Ubuntu. When I looked at three security patches, I found that two matched the SourceForge code, but one differed.

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