[Mailman-Users] Get newer version of Mailman for Debian 6?

[Bruce Harrison]

I'd be interested as well.

Bruce Harrison
UT Martin

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From: Mailman-Users [mailto:mailman-users-bounces+harrison=utm.edu at python.org] On Behalf Of Terry Earley
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 11:40 AM
To: mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Get newer version of Mailman for Debian 6?

Barry,

> It took me a while to determine what to do, but after I had built and 
> tested the package, I had no problems building packages for subsequent 
> Mailman releases.  IIRC, the last Mailman for which I built a package 
> was 2.1.14.  I do not know if any changes since then would require 
> changes to the package-build process.  I have details on what I did, 
> if anyone is interested.
>

Our Ubuntu server will need to take an upgrade from 2.1.14 to 2.1.18-1, so your instructions on building Debian packages will be very helpful to us at least. Thanks in advance.

Terry Earley
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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Barry S. Finkel <bsfinkel at att.net> wrote:

> On 5/14/2014 2:40 PM, Sascha Rissel wrote:
>
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I am running a vServer on Debian6.
>> Via "apt-get install mailman" I installed and set up Mailman 2.1.13, 
>> which is running fine with 5 mailing lists on my server.
>>
>> Motivated by all those discussions about Yahoo's DMARC on this list, 
>> I wondered whether I can upgrade my Mailman installation to a newer version.
>>
>> I tried "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" but I did not receive 
>> a newer version of Mailman.
>>
>> Unfortunately I don't consider myself as good enough in Linux usage, 
>> to be able to build Mailman binaries from scratch on my own. Indeed I 
>> tried, but already upon executing "configure" (Step 3 in Mailman's 
>> installation
>> guide<http://list.org/mailman-install/node7.html>)
>> I got a python warning
>>
>>> Distutils is not available or is incomplete
>>>
>> which seems to tell me I should install another Python environment.
>>
>> So I came to the point when I decided that compiling Mailman on my 
>> own is too complicated for me, because in the end I definitely want a 
>> bug-free installation of Mailman.
>>
>> Is there maybe an easier way to get a more recent version of Mailman 
>> for my server?
>>
>> In advance, thanks for your help!
>> Sascha.
>>
>
> When I was running a Mailman server on an Ubuntu box, I was forced to 
> install via a package.  But I did some research on the Debian/Ubuntu 
> package to see what was in it.  There were many patches that were 
> undocumented, and there was one patch that deleted a library that, in 
> some cases, is required.  So, I decided to build my own package from 
> the SourceForge source.  That way, I would know EXACTLY what the 
> source was, and I could get support from this discussion list.
>
> It took me a while to determine what to do, but after I had built and 
> tested the package, I had no problems building packages for subsequent 
> Mailman releases.  IIRC, the last Mailman for which I built a package 
> was 2.1.14.  I do not know if any changes since then would require 
> changes to the package-build process.  I have details on what I did, 
> if anyone is interested.
>
> --Barry Finkel
>
>
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