[Mailman-Developers] Re: Tracebacks from Mailman v2.1 in Debian/Testing

[Ross Boylan]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:44:44PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 12:12, J C Lawrence wrote:
> > Barry,
> > 
> > Using the Debian 2.1.2-2 package I get the floowing tracebacks on
> > attempted subscribes:
> > 
> >   File "/var/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in run_main
> >     main()
> >   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 96, in main
> >     process_form(mlist, doc, cgidata, language)
> >   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 176, in process_form
> >     mlist.AddMember(userdesc, remote)
> >   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 831, in AddMember
> >     text=text, lang=lang)
> >   File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Message.py", line 206, in __init__
> >     errors='replace')
> >   TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'errors'
> 
> 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 can confirm that email is not installed properly.  My debian/testing
installation (apt-get upgrade) failed with

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/mailman/bin/list_lists", line 47, in ?
    from Mailman import MailList
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 39, in ?
    import email.Iterators
ImportError: No module named email.Iterators

I thought this was because I've been messing around with mailman
locally, but it seems not.

I filed a Debian bug about the installation problem, though I haven't
got a confirmation back.

> 
> I've seen this before and it always comes down to some Python
> rpm/package not being installed, usually a -devel one that contains the
> distutils package.  For this and other reasons, I'm going to try to
> rework the way the email and codecs packages are bundled in Mailman
> 2.1.3.  I want them (at the very least the email package) to be included
> as source files, not as tgz's that need to be distutils installed.  I
> hope to have time to spin 2.1.3 tomorrow.
> 
> -Barry
> 
> 
> 
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