>>>>> "MvL" =3D=3D Martin v L=F6wis <martin@v.loewis.de> writes:
MvL> No need is real. The specific requirement comes from
MvL> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D96111
MvL> where a user complains that mailman writes into /usr (writing
MvL> actually failed, but a Secure Linux kernel detected the
MvL> problem, and the user wants to silence the warning,
MvL> implementing some policy).
MvL> It turns out that this is Python trying to write .pyc
MvL> files. It would be desirable to turn pyc generation
MvL> completely off for mailman. This could be done best through
MvL> actually modifying the mailman source code. Setting an
MvL> environment variable is less convenient, as you then have to
MvL> find all places where mailman scripts are invoked, or have to
MvL> wrap all mailman scripts.
That particular bug is because the debian package isn't/wasn't
complete. In a from-source installation of Mailman, we do indeed run
compileall.py on all the Python files. From skimming the debian bug
report, it looks like they fixed their post-install script to do the
same.
-Barry
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