From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: 38381@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38381: 27.0.50; Bump Gnus version to 5.14, properly encode group names on disk
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 02:11:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a78jjvam.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877e3nxxz0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Mon, 25 Nov 2019 16:50:11 -0800")
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> Okay, but there is a whole upgrade mechanism in place that's
> specifically for upgrading the .newsrc.eld file to a new version, so
> this wouldn't be the first time it's happened.
It's only been used once, back in... what... 1996? (There's other
converters for agentey stuff, but that's not very impactful.) And if I
remember correctly, it wasn't backwards-incompatible... just
forwards-incompatible.
> That said, the current situation seems to be working fine; if we've got
> to keep it, we've got to keep it. I'd like to keep this bug report open,
> though.
If we're not going to do conversion like that, I don't see much point in
keeping the bug report open?
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2019-11-25 23:56 bug#38381: 27.0.50; Bump Gnus version to 5.14, properly encode group names on disk Eric Abrahamsen
2019-11-26 0:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-26 0:50 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-11-26 1:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-11-26 4:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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