From: "Jakub Ječmínek via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: "Björn Bidar" <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>
Cc: 60078@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#60078: 30.0.50; Gnus: Can't remove groups of select methods that don't exist anymore
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 23:01:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875xygrtmt.fsf@kubajecminek.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875yedvblv.fsf@thaodan.de>
Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> writes:
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. Add select method
> 2. Have a group either created before or in Gnus
> 3. Launch Gnus
> 4. Quit Gnus
> 5. Remove select method
> 6. Relaunch Gnus
> 7. execute gnus-group-check-bogus-groups or try to delete a group in
> Gnus
>
> Result:
> gnus-group-expunge-group: nil does not support expunging
> gnus-get-function: Trying to require a method that doesn’t exist [2
> times]
>
> Expected result:
> Groups gone, diagnostic message if needed.
>
> Either Gnus doesn't find bogus groups for no longer existing select
> methods or can't delete them.
Hello Björn, thanks for the bug report. I believe that the "correct" way
to deal with such groups is simply to kill them (C-k in *Group* buffer).
The documenatation says the following about the bogus group:
A group that exists in the ‘.newsrc’ file, but isn’t known to the server
(i.e., it isn’t in the active file), is a _bogus group_. This means
that the group probably doesn’t exist (any more).
So basically if you remove the select method corresponding to a
particular group then Gnus is not able to check for bogus groups.
--
Kuba Ječmínek (http://kubajecminek.cz)
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2022-12-14 22:55 bug#60078: 30.0.50; Gnus: Can't remove groups of select methods that don't exist anymore Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-22 23:01 ` Jakub Ječmínek via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2024-02-23 3:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2024-02-23 9:22 ` Jakub Ječmínek via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-02-23 16:12 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2024-04-01 21:10 ` Jakub Ječmínek via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-11 3:38 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2024-05-12 22:08 ` Jakub Ječmínek via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-14 0:55 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2024-05-14 20:42 ` Jakub Ječmínek via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-16 17:02 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2024-05-16 19:53 ` Jakub Ječmínek via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-17 2:55 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2024-05-17 20:48 ` Jakub Ječmínek via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-21 22:48 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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