GNU bug report logs - #31739
25.2; Cannot expire articles in virtual group

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jamie Forth <j.forth <at> gold.ac.uk>

Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 20:40:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, unreproducible

Found in version 25.2

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #56 received at 31739 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Jamie Forth <J.Forth <at> gold.ac.uk>
Cc: "31739 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <31739 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#31739: 25.2; Cannot expire articles in virtual group
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 18:24:42 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> I just wondered what the value of the variable was.  :-)  But this shows
> that you definitely have gnus-summary-expire-articles in
> gnus-summary-prepare-exit-hook, so that's not the reason the articles
> aren't expired.
>
> Reading the code, gnus-summary-prepare-exit-hook is called before the
> marks are cleared, so at that point the expirable list should still
> exist, which makes the bug you're seeing even more incomprehensible...

I seemed to have dropped the ball on this one -- this was two years ago.

Jamie, do you still see these problems in recent Emacs versions?

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