Re: More fun with nnweb

["David Z. Maze" <dmaze@MIT.EDU>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
LMI> "David Z. Maze" <dmaze@MIT.EDU> writes:
 DZM> The other problem is if I try to create a persistent group (C-u G w
 DZM> ...).  This works fine, but each time I check for new articles ('g')
 DZM> it returns duplicates of every article.  (That is, the first time, I
 DZM> have 19 articles, the second, 19 new out of 38, the third, 19 out of
 DZM> 57, etc.)
LMI> 
LMI> Ah, yes, I've seen that before, but I thought I had fixed that.  The
LMI> problem was that nnweb wasn't able to create a consistent mapping
LMI> between articles and Gnus article numbers.  Do the debbugs provide
LMI> something that identifies the articles uniquely?

The bug number is unique, and I should correctly parse it out of the
initial list-of-bugs page.  This seems suggest that I would want to
use it instead of (cdr active) as the number parameter to
make-full-mail-header, yes?  Is there better documentation than C-h f
for this function and how it's relevant to things?

(It looks like the way I do things now is to parse out the URL and bug 
name from the list-of-bugs page, and then, if the URL isn't already in 
nnweb-hashtb, I do
	    (push
	     (list
	      (incf (cdr active))
	      (make-full-mail-header
	       (cdr active) subject from nil nil nil 0 0 url))
	     map)
This looks like it should guarantee that each "article" has a unique
number, but if the same thing is encountered more than once with
different URLs, it winds up in the list multiple times.)

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