GNU bug report logs - #37926
[PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods

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Packages: gnus, emacs;

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

Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 20:10:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #22 received at 37926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: dick.r.chiang <at> gmail.com
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 37926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 23:55:11 -0400

> That was a long patch, and I'm not sure I understand what it's doing.  Won't
> this basically break everybody's .newsrc.eld files?

I wasn't aware .newsrc.eld recorded a primary/secondary distinction.  If you
meant dot.emacs or dot.gnus, then the patch was intended to be
backwards-compatible with separately specifying gnus-select-method and
gnus-secondary-select-methods.
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