GNU bug report logs - #40280
gnus-cloud doesn't do anything useful

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Packages: gnus, emacs;

Reported by: David Edmondson <dme <at> dme.org>

Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 17:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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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From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
To: David Edmondson <dme <at> dme.org>
Cc: 40280 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40280: gnus-cloud doesn't do anything useful
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 12:21:42 +0200

Hello,

> Looking at how `newer' is calculated, it compares the group timestamp
> from the gnus-cloud message with the current time. It's not clear to me
> how that test is ever going to return `nil', unless I have a version of
> emacs running somewhere in the future that updates gnus-cloud.

I share the same conclusions on 26.3, the downloaded message is always
older than current time, and nothing happens.

The patch you are proposing fixes gnus cloud update for me.

Thanks,

Mathieu
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