Re: mailman vs. py-dns

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 07:41:10PM +0200, oskar%fessel.org@localhost wrote:
> i just ran across a problem updating packages when pkg_rolling-replace hit py-dns.
> py-dns is required for building mailman - which still is in production despite the use of py27, since there is no clean upgrade path.
> Nevertheless, recent updates make mailman in pkgsrc unbuildable, unless you have an old version of py27-dns on your system.
> How can we proceed?

There's nothing to do.  mailman depends on py-dns1 which contains a
version of py-dns that supports python 2.7.

If you see a problem, it's due to pkg_rolling-replace or your pkgsrc
not being completely up-to-date.
 Thomas