Backporting mlmmj for oldstable Debian 12 bookworm on amd64
Hello everyone,
I am happy to see that there has been quite a bit of development on mlmmj recently after the project was dormant for a couple of years.
As mlmmj is a mailing list manager it obviously mostly runs on mailservers. Mail servers usually have quite a long service life because of the large software stack and a lot of people are still running Debian 11 and Debian 12. But the mlmmj version in Debian bookworm is about 10 years old at this point, although Debian 13 only came out about seven months ago.
I've talked to the package maintainer - Chris Knadle - and with his instructions built a deb package for Debian 12 on amd64 with the newest version packaged for Debian (1.6.0).
If anyone wants to test it, I've made it available on:
https://ind.me/debian/bookworm/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.6.0/
Known issue when upgrading is that $confaddr$ stops resolving and needs to be updated to the new $confirmaddr$ in text/confirm for existing mailing lists.
Looking into maybe backporting it as I know quite a few people that would benefit from this. If anyone needs other architectures, I can probably arrange that. Feel free to comment.
Cheers,
Jona Müller
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Hello everyone,
I am happy to see that there has been quite a bit of development on mlmmj recently after the project was dormant for a couple of years.
As mlmmj is a mailing list manager it obviously mostly runs on mailservers. Mail servers usually have quite a long service life because of the large software stack and a lot of people are still running Debian 11 and Debian 12. But the mlmmj version in Debian bookworm is about 10 years old at this point, although Debian 13 only came out about seven months ago.
I've talked to the package maintainer - Chris Knadle - and with his instructions built a deb package for Debian 12 on amd64 with the newest version packaged for Debian (1.6.0).
If anyone wants to test it, I've made it available on:
https://ind.me/debian/bookworm/mlmmj/mlmmj_1.6.0/Known issue when upgrading is that $confaddr$ stops resolving and needs to be updated to the new $confirmaddr$ in text/confirm for existing mailing lists.
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Looking into maybe backporting it as I know quite a few people that would benefit from this. If anyone needs other architectures, I can probably arrange that. Feel free to comment.
Cheers,
Jona Müller
Chris has also graciously accepted various patches offered to the PHP utilities in the mlmmj contrib directory.
If anyone's interested in those, I can make them available. They fix compatibility issues with contemporary versions of PHP.
- Ron