[Mailman-Users] Ubuntu release of Mailman
Barry Warsaw
barry at list.org
Fri May 11 21:37:20 CEST 2012
On May 11, 2012, at 02:15 PM, Lindsay Haisley wrote:
>I just installed, and just as promptly un-installed mailman on Ubuntu
>server 10.04.4 LTS. The offered pacakge version of mailman for this
>release, which I used, is 2.1.13-1.
>
>I have a few questions which perhaps someone could answer, if anyone
>knows the thinking behind Canonical's (and the package maintainer's)
>motives/reasons for what was done.
Unfortunately I can't provide any insight into the rationale, since (perhaps
ironically ;) I don't participate in the maintenance of the Mailman package.
I would just like to point out a few things that might be useful:
- Canonical, or for that matter Ubuntu, isn't responsible for this change,
since it comes straight from Debian. AFAICT, we carry no Ubuntu-specific
deltas to the Debian package. I.e. it's a straight sync from Debian in
Precise (12.04 LTS). AFAICT, Lucid (10.04.4 LTS) carries a couple of
additional security updates, but this doesn't seem like the kind of change
that would be made in a security update.
- Probably the best way to get authoritative answers is to contact the Debian
Mailman packaging team:
pkg-mailman-hackers at lists.alioth.debian.org
I don't know whether anyone from that team is on this list, or
mailman-developers.
Cheers,
-Barry
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