[ mailman-Bugs-1906368 ] newlist: preferred_language not put into available_languages

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Bugs item #1906368, was opened at 2008-03-03 08:20
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Category: command line scripts
Group: 2.1 (stable)
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Marcin Owsiany (porridge)
>Assigned to: Mark Sapiro (msapiro)
Summary: newlist: preferred_language not put into available_languages

Initial Comment:
When I run newlist with -l pl, then preferred_language does get set to 'pl', but available_languages is set to just ['en'].

This causes two problems for me:
 - editing the default language on the language properties page gets tricky (you need to apply the settings twice, going through a page in english).
 - the installation scripts logic in the debian package reads available_languages to find out which language message files to install. Not having the preferred language in the available list means I will have to jump through some extra tricky hoops to get it working properly.

Also, the comment in the config file does say that the default language should be in the available languages list, so I guess some assumptions are made in other parts of the codebase, which will cause undesired behavior.

I guess the best way to fix this is to create a proper mutator method which will contain some logic to also update the available_languages property if need be.


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>Comment By: Mark Sapiro (msapiro)
Date: 2008-03-03 09:48

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This is a bug in newlist fixed by the attached patch which will be in
Mailman 2.1.10.

The patch will add the selected language to available_languages if it is
other than the server default language.

As far as the Debian installation scripts logic is concerned, this is not
something that the Mailman project has any control over, but I must not
understand correctly in any case. It seems that you are saying that the
package will not install any templates or message catalogs for languages
that are not listed in available_languages of the existing lists, but this
would result in a new installation containg support for only those
languages listed as available for the packaged site list if that, so you
must be saying something else.
File Added: newlist.patch

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