GNU bug report logs - #35513
(setq gnus-thread-sort-functions '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number)) seems not to work always.

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: Uwe Brauer <oub.oub.oub <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 22:01:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: confirmed, wontfix

Found in version 5.13

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 35513 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub.oub.oub <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35513 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35513: (setq gnus-thread-sort-functions
 '(gnus-thread-sort-by-number)) seems not to work always.
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 14:22:12 +0200

Uwe Brauer <oub.oub.oub <at> gmail.com> writes:

> (setq gnus-thread-ignore-subject nil)

[...]

> Now I reply to  89536, change the subject but leave the reference
> intact, that results in   89540, placed *before* 89538, which is not
> correct. 

Yes -- the sorting is done before splitting threads up based on the
gnus-thread-ignore-subject, which seems like a bug.

Fixing this rather obscure problem would require traversing the thread
structure once more, which I'm not sure is worth it...

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