Re: [Bug, Debian(?)] "g" goes not refresh nnimap groups!

[Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com>]

* Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
> Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com> writes:

> Does anyone know what the motivation for the patch was?  If we revert
> the patch, we might re-introduce an old bug...  Of course, if there is
> agreement to revert the patch, I think all committers could do it.

In my private mail exchange with Lars I asked him what actually the
difference between the old and new code is. I hope Lars doesn't mind
that I'm going to publish his answer here:

,----[ Lars in a private mail ]
| Finding out whether two select methods are "equal" is actually kinda
| tricky in Gnus since I was way too sloppy back when I started doing
| that stuff.  So the functions are complicated, and there a lot that
| might go wrong...
`----

I would also be happy if there is any person who can disprove my opinion
that the new code introduces a bug. Isn't really anyone out there using
Debian Sid with a recent Gnus + standard Debian Emacs package and reads
mail via Courier IMAP?

As mentioned many times before this bug _only_ shows up on Debian Sid
(tested on two different W2k machines) and can be removed by undoing
Lars' changes (I have successfully tested this!). I can hardly believe
that I'm the only one world-wide who discovered this... :-)

Regards,
Marcus
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