Package: mailman Version: 1:2.1.11-11+lenny1 Severity: normal I expected that /var/lock does not need to retain any data over reboots, so I use tmpfs for it. But FHS doesn't seem to require this like it does for /var/cache/, so this is merely a convenience bug.
Upgrading to the recent security update failed since lock files couldn't be create in /var/lock/mailman since that directory didn't exist. Creating it solved the issue. So I suggest that the maintainer scripts (and maybe also the init.d script) check for its existence and if it doesn't exist yet, create it. Haven't yet tested if this still happens in Squeeze, Wheezy or Sid, too. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.8 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mailman depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii apache2 2.2.9-10+lenny9 Apache HTTP Server metapackage ii apache2-mpm-prefork [htt 2.2.9-10+lenny9 Apache HTTP Server - traditional n ii cron 3.0pl1-105 management of regular background p ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-18lenny7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii logrotate 3.7.1-5 Log rotation utility ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii postfix [mail-transport- 2.5.5-1.1 High-performance mail transport ag ii pwgen 2.06-1 Automatic Password generation ii python 2.5.2-3 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-support 0.8.4lenny2 automated rebuilding support for P ii ucf 3.0016 Update Configuration File: preserv mailman recommends no packages. Versions of packages mailman suggests: pn listadmin <none> (no description available) ii lynx 2.8.7dev9-2.1 Text-mode WWW Browser (transitiona pn spamassassin <none> (no description available) -- debconf information: mailman/gate_news: false mailman/site_languages: it, fr, de, en mailman/queue_files_present: abort installation * mailman/used_languages: de en fr it mailman/default_server_language: en mailman/create_site_list: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
