Re: backporting bugfixes to the v5-10 branch

[Andreas Seltenreich <andreas+ding@gate450.dyndns.org>]

Andreas Seltenreich writes:

> Reiner Steib writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 12 2006, Andreas Seltenreich wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not sure what to do with the change to gnus-find-method-for-group:
>>>
>>> 	* gnus.el (gnus-find-method-for-group): On killed/unknown groups, try
>>> 	looking up the method using GROUP's prefix before inventing a new one.
>>> 	It is used on killed/unknown groups in various places where returning
>>> 	an all-new method isn't expected by the caller.
>>>
>>> While I can reproduce all of the bugs listed in
>>> <news:87fyhttsum.fsf@gate450.dyndns.org> on a stable Gnus, 
>>
>> ... and the fix as well, I guess?
>
> Ack, I was unable to trigger the bugs anymore on v5-10 with the fix
> merged in.
[...]
> Btw, testing with the agent enabled revealed two places where
> g-f-m-f-g is called on groups after their prefix has been stripped,
> causing the native method to be returned.  I don't think this is
> intentional, is it?
>
> [backtraces]

While I'm very confident that the change to g-f-m-f-g won't cause any
regressions, I do not /know/ that it won't.  Especially with respect
to the agent.  With Emacs pretest approaching, I'm still reluctant to
commit it to v5-10, and unless someone raises a more knowledgeable
opinion, I'll leave it on the trunk.

regards,
andreas