/etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py is currently not considered a conffile of mailman.
That is the reason it is overwritten on an update instead of getting the usual
"you had differences do you want the maintainers content, Y/N/show diff".
But currently:
# cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/mailman.conffiles
/etc/cron.d/mailman
/etc/init.d/mailman
/etc/logrotate.d/mailman
/etc/mailman/apache.conf
OTOH this doesn't seem a normal file - there is some special handling for
language.
This is doen via debconf - so when you first installed you were asked what the
default should be and this is generated into this file.
92 if [ -e /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py ]; then
93 db_get mailman/default_server_language || true
94 if [ -n "$RET" ]; then
95 default_server_language="$(echo $RET | sed -r 's/
\([^\)]*\)//g')"
96 sed -e
s/DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE.*=.*\'..\'/DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE\ =\
\'${default_server_language}\'
97 mv -f ${mm_etc}/mm_cfg.py.$$ ${mm_etc}/mm_cfg.py
98 fi
99 fi
That code seems odd to me, but I'm not a debconf expert anyway.
SO in general this file seems to be handled "special" in the postinst.
I see it will
1. do the check above to set language from debconf
2. place the file if it does not exist (cp from
/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py.dist)
IMHO that should be before above check
3. if mm_defaults is still in the file configure it
While I think #2 and #1 would need some fixes (separate issue IMHO) I wonder
where your problem might come from.
Maybe just that you need to set the debconf.
What does:
$ debconf-show mailman
show you for mailman/site_languages?
If it is not zh_TW you might set it with:
$ echo "set mailman/default_server_language zh_TW" | debconf-communicate
After that does an install still clobber it for you?
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Status: New => Incomplete
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