Developers of Sympa

[Petr Prazak <address@concealed>]

Hello Sympa developers,

  I'm switching to Sympa from Majordomo, and I wanted to convert the
  list archives to Sympa.

  I have created a simple script to convert the Mj archive files to
  the Sympa rfc934 log files.

  Then I wanted to recreate the web archives and I found a few problems
  with the Sympa scripts.

  1. The arc2webarc.pl script is missing few lines so it fails
  everytime, I assume it is quite old and the Sympa internals
  have changed since then. The attached patch will fix it.

  2. The archived.pl runs the mhonarc via system function.
  (Un)fortunately, I have lists, which have non-letter characters in
  its names, like 'motobike-cz'. The mhonarc fails silently when the
  rebuilding of the archive for such a list. Therefore the list
  parameter must be escaped by apostrophes. I have also added a simple
  logging if the command fails. The patch is attached.

  3. The submodules are referring to the hash $main::options, so all
  main modules should define the hash %options to keep Perl happy.



Best regards,
 Petr Prazak

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