Subject: Re: bug#35383: 27.0.50; Complete process of decoding Gnus group names

From: Katsumi Yamaoka <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 08:19:04 +0900

Ouch!  `gnus-newsrc-alist' in the .newsrc.eld file turned into a
list of just group names, i.e.:

(setq gnus-newsrc-alist '("nnml:foo" "nnml:bar" "nnml:baz"...))

Ok, I have a backup.  Not investigated it yet sorry, but I guess
this is due to the recent changes in the scratch/gnus-decoded
branch.

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:01:39 -0400, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> branch: scratch/gnus-decoded
> commit 2e2ed9f8f2b018e681379d0b4d333038dcc29ebb
> Author: Eric Abrahamsen <[email-masked]>
> Commit: Eric Abrahamsen <[email-masked]>

>     Fix/extension to previous commit

>     * lisp/gnus/gnus-start.el (gnus-read-newsrc-el-file): The same
>       decoding needs to be done for group names in gnus-topic-alist.
>       (gnus-gnus-to-quick-newsrc-format): Fix bogus temporary setting of
>       variables; a simply let binding is sufficient.

On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 23:47:59 -0400, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> branch: scratch/gnus-decoded
> commit f1c980a979f23676253c71c07a78e4546ee57800
> Author: Eric Abrahamsen <[email-masked]>
> Commit: Eric Abrahamsen <[email-masked]>

>     Preserve group name encoding in newsrc.eld files

>     * lisp/gnus/gnus-start.el (gnus-gnus-to-quick-newsrc-format): Preserve
>       Gnus' earlier odd encoding of group names. Don't change any file
>       formats until it's time to release a new Gnus version.