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27.0.50; Error in gnus-group-describe-all-groups

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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>, 35233 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35233: 27.0.50; Error in gnus-group-describe-all-groups
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 10:57:03 -0700

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> writes:

> The recent move to hash-tables[1] introduced the following regression:
>
> 0. HOME=$(mktemp -d) emacs -Q
> 1. (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.gwene.org")) C-j
> 2. M-x gnus RET s M-d
>    Wrong number of arguments: #<subr sort>, 1
>
> Passing string-lessp to sort further leads to the following:
>
> 3. Steps 0-2 as above.
>    Wrong type argument: vectorp, #s(hash-table ...)
>
> Replacing (intern group gnus-description-hashtb) with just group, and
> repeating steps 0-2 as above, reveals that
> gnus-group-describe-all-groups inserts the group name twice, rather than
> the group name followed by its description.  This regression predates
> the move to hash-tables[2].
>
> [1: c1b63af445]: Change Gnus hash tables into real hash tables
>   2019-03-22 10:23:30 -0700
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=c1b63af4458e92bad33da0def2b15c206656e2fa
>
> [2: 3982245371]: Sort groups before inserting them into the group buffer
>   2016-02-13 18:45:11 +1100
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=3982245371c0b8e17b4d96d16ed4b1d87c0ffc25
>
> Patch fixing these to follow.

Ugh, thank you for catching those very stupid mistakes!

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