From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/63577 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Seltenreich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: backporting bugfixes to the v5-10 branch Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:24:49 +0200 Message-ID: <878xlh6xmm.fsf@gate450.dyndns.org> References: <87wtajwzjk.fsf@gate450.dyndns.org> <87wta86vzr.fsf@gate450.dyndns.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156231894 5416 80.91.229.2 (22 Aug 2006 07:31:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:31:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m12104@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Aug 22 09:31:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFQjC-0007W3-0x for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:31:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1GFQil-00024y-00; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:30:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1GFQd9-00024s-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:24:59 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.227.211]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GFQd8-0004ev-Ag for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:24:59 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de ([129.13.185.217] ident=Debian-exim) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1GFQd2-0001Fb-00 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:24:52 +0200 Original-Received: from rzstud2.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de (exim@rzstud2.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de [193.196.41.38]) by smtp1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtp (Exim 4.50 #1) id 1GFQd1-0005vI-1W; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:24:51 +0200 Original-Received: from uwi7 by rzstud2.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GFQd0-0001HL-Kd for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:24:50 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: $:F<87a[gD1?#R6S3j21cr1&C&7bd63GHC.tSdskUb}hhwG(ci*=D5kJ<_N+p9q(7-,PnG. Et.Yh (Andreas Seltenreich's message of "Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:12:40 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:63577 Archived-At: 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 >>> 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