Subject: Re: bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods

From: Deus Max <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 16:52:19 +0200

On Sat, Nov 02 2019, [email-masked] wrote:

> One, to reiterate, the patch at hand is a useability improvement, protecting new users from
> the byzantine distinction of primary/secondary, and preserving the distinction
> internally for backwards compatibility.  Some have argued keeping the internal
> distinction makes the patch unworthy of the risk, to which I am sympathetic.
>
You agree it is a usability improvement and that the current behaviour is
a byzantine distinction.
Sometimes to move forward, you have to break continuity.
Especially with byzantine practises, old OSes, etc., etc.

> Two, with mild effort, I could fully eliminate the distinction without user
> guidance or manually rewriting newsrcs.  Such a change exacerbates risk.

Which is probably not mild. As you will discover from the many-many bugs
that follow.