Date of XEmacs' Gnus (5.10.7) package (was: [Bug: 21.4.18] gnus 5.10.7 not rendering Latin-1 headers)

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc>]

On Mon, Jan 30 2006, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>>>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>
>     Reiner> On Sun, Jan 29 2006, Steve Youngs wrote:
>
>> (package-get-info 'gnus 'date)
>>  => 2005-11-15
>>
>> That would come pretty close. :-)
>
>     Reiner> Could you suggest a way to check the date of the package
>     Reiner> without XEmacs?  Maybe an URL to the package ChangeLog or
>     Reiner> similar?
>
> In general, using XEmacs is the right way, because that will tell you
> what the bug reporter has installed.  If you want to check what's
> current, all of that information is in the package-index,
>
> ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.gpg

(progn (url-insert-file-contents
	"ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.gpg")
       (re-search-forward "^(gnus"))

... fine:

,----
| (package-get-update-base-entry (quote
| (gnus
|   (standards-version 1.1
|    version "1.89"
|    author-version "5.10.7"
|    date "2006-01-04"
|    build-date "2006-01-04"
`----

On Tue, Jan 31 2006, Mike Kupfer wrote:

(Mike, your article has a bogus References header:

,----
| Message-ID: <200601302324.k0UNOLos019384@athyra.sfbay.sun.com>
| References: <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
| [...]
| In-Reply-To: Message from Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>    of "Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:40:15 +0100." <v9y80yu08g.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> 
| X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 18)
`----

MH-E bug?)

> If you've got the mail generated by report-xemacs-bug, it has the
> version information for all the installed packages.  In this case, it's
>
> (gnus ver: 1.87 upstream: 5.10.7)
>
> You could then track this back with the package ChangeLog.

(url-insert-file-contents "http://cvs.xemacs.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/gnus/ChangeLog?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain")

Good.

> 2005-11-15  Norbert Koch  <viteno@xemacs.org>
>
> 	* Makefile (VERSION): XEmacs package 1.87 released.
>
> 2005-11-15  Steve Youngs  <steve@sxemacs.org>
>
> 	* Sync with upstream stable branch.
> 	Please see the ChangeLog.upstream files for details.
[...]
> Does that help?

Yes, I hope so.  Thanks guys.

Bye, Reiner.
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