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Subject: Re: gnus-xmas-format in ~/.newsrc.eld
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 20:06:07 +0200
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On Wed, Apr 23 2003, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
>
>> When a user wants to switch back to Gnus 5.8.8 (e.g. to see if some
>> bug has been introduced in Oort), displaying articles fails, because
>> `gnus-xmas-format' isn't bound.
>
> Downgrading does not work well, so maybe instead of adding workarounds
> for some of the problems, 

Yes, it's a workaround.  But why should we make downgrading harder
than is necessary?

> we should add a version check in .newsrc.eld explaining that the
> user is on their own?

This would make sense.

> One thing that will break after downgrade + upgrade are flags.  Any
> flag changes made using the old gnus version will be lost.  

Are you talking about the marks files (nnml, nnfolder, ...?)?  It
worked for me in nndoc and nntp groups.  I didn't try other back ends.

> Given the changes to agent/cache/etc, I think there are more
> problems.

Is there an entry in GNUS-NEWS for this?  (I couldn't find any.)

Bye, Reiner.
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