* Athanasius
| mailman.preinst checks for any files under /var/lib/mailman/qfiles and
| aborts installation if any are found. Debconf message then advises to
| simply delete the qfiles if needs be. In many situations this is not a
| valid option (loss of mail).
Which is why it also suggests to let the queue run finish.
| An alternative that should be documented is to first backup and remove
| the qfiles, perform the upgrade, then restore the backed up qfiles
| whilst mailman is NOT running, and then run /usr/lib/mailman/bin/update
| to ensure the qfiles are in latest format. After that mailman may
| safely be restarted.
update doesn't always manage to handle the queue files, it seems, so
it will break in some cases. (I don't think it handles queue files at
all, just lists.) This is the reason for the preinst refusal to
install.
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