March 3, 2026
9:08 p.m.
So I went to submit a bug report to Debian about the fact that the mailman3-web page drags in nginx for no reason. Turns out that the bug had been reported in 2021 and nobody who worked on it who understood mailman understood apache and nobody who worked on it who understood apache understood mailman[1]. So I submitted an update.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1002795
[1] Literally, one of the developers said Thanks, I admit initially I had no plan on supporting apache2 as I don't use it. Jonas did that part and therefore I did not follow at all.
Paul Tomblin