Re: Backporting mlmmj for oldstable Debian 12 bookworm on amd64

On 3/25/26 12:04 PM, Jona Müller wrote:
> 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


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