GNU bug report logs - #36903
27.0.50; gnus registry vs. debbugs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 07:13:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #65 received at 36903 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: 36903 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36903: 27.0.50; gnus registry vs. debbugs
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:24:21 +0200
Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> I can do that for in-tree code, and my own packages, but who knows what
> else is out there that might try something similar.

Well, we can't control out-of-tree code, but Gnus should (in general) be
able to generate a summary buffer without Gnus having been started -- I
mean, that's a design goal.

> But it's probably a better solution than anything else I can think of.
> I'd be inclined to just have them return an empty string. Another
> possibility would be to have the formatting code wrap the user-function
> funcall in `ignore-errors' and return an empty string there.

That doesn't sound very friendly when trying to debug errors...

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