[Mailman-Users] Downgrade from Mailman 2.1.12 to 2.1.11

[Andrew Hodgson]

Mark Sapiro wrote:

>Andrew Hodgson wrote:
>
>I am currently on a Ubuntu 9.04 system and want to migrate to a new host which is running Debian Lenny.  Lenny has the Mailman 2.1.11 Debian package and the 9.04 host has 2.1.12.  Will there be any issue of downgrading the mailing list data files?

>In general, there could be, but this particular downgrade is safe. In
>fact, I think any downgrade from 2.1.x to 2.1.y is safe as long as
>12 >= x > y >= 5. There are other downgrades that will work too, but
>without actually looking at the datafile changes, I'm not sure which
>ones will or won't. Downgrade from 2.1.x to 2.0.y is definitely not
>safe.

Thanks; I staged this on a VM running on my own system before putting it live; it seems to be working ok now.

Andrew.