[Mailman-Developers] Patch for making digest_arch a bit less stupid

[Tollef Fog Heen]

*  (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.

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Tollef Fog Heen
Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.