GNU bug report logs - #37590
[PATCH]: gnus-group-set-info setdr exception

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: dick <dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 19:06:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 37590 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
To: dick <dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 37590 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37590: 27.0.50; gnus-group-set-info setcdr exception
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:53:16 -0700

dick <dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com> writes:

> From 92862ab4d7e9f8400229add13a6e16e437d6dbd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: dickmao <none>
> Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 14:22:26 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] Avoid setcdr exception when gnus-newsrc-alist is empty

Yeah, this is something we've been looking at in #36903. In the case of
debbugs-gnu, Gnus isn't actually started up at all, and
gnus-newsrc-alist hasn't been initialized. I think it would be better
just to skip that clause altogether when gnus-newsrc-alist is nil,
rather than setting it like this.
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