[Mailman-Users] Mailman not responding, configuration error?

[Brad Knowles]

At 5:32 PM -0700 2005-01-03, Dr. Jones wrote:

>  Not to disparage your comment about version numbers and dashes for
>  mailman, but....I ran dpkg -l mailman on my debian 3.0 system and
>  get the following:

	The current version of Mailman is 2.1.5.  Debian apparently uses 
dashes after the official version number, to indicate the version of 
their binary package.

>  Am I reading the output wrong? Help me understand what i read above,
>  the "2.1.5-4" part...

	What you're missing is that the version number has two parts -- 
one that is assigned by the Mailman project, and one assigned by 
Debian.

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