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Bug#363016: marked as done (release-notes: [sarge] Upgrade path for Mailman needs documenting)

Your message dated Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:32:14 +0200
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and subject line Bug#363016: release-notes: [sarge] Upgrade path for Mailman needs documenting
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Package: release-notes
Severity: normal

The woody -> sarge upgrade path of mailman is a complete mess, and not
documented well enough during the upgrade itself. Please say something
about it in the release notes. Here's a possible text:

Issue 1: Administrator must update aliases

 When using "MTA='Manual'", the administrator must update the aliases
 needed for the lists manually. Run /var/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases to
 see the new aliases you need.

 Until you do that, some features will stop working and mails will go
 out with an invalid Return-Path.

Issue 2: List passwords broken

 List admin and moderator passwords are broken by this upgrade. Use
 /var/lib/mailman/bin/change_pw to have new ones automatically
 generated and emailed to the admins and moderators.

Issue 3: What to do when the queue is not empty

 The instructions given when the queue is not empty at upgrade time are
 incomplete and confusing. Better ones can be found at
 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mailman-hackers/2006-April/000692.html
 . (People reading this in another language than English are informed
 that a translated version of this message is included in newer versions
 of the package: Go to
 http://packages.debian.org/testing/source/mailman, download the three
 files linked to in the "Download mailman" section, run "dpkg-source -x
 mailman_VERSION.dsc". The message is in the files
 mailman-VERSION/debian/po/LANGUAGE.po.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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I'm very sorry that we never got around to documenting this issue. As 
Sarge is about to be replaced with Etch, I'm closing this request.

Cheers,
FJP

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