GNU bug report logs - #46533
27.1.91; (gnus-agent-expire) leaves the last article per group

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi>

Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 13:46:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.1.91

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 46533 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi>
Cc: 46533 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46533: 27.1.91; (gnus-agent-expire) leaves the last article
 per group
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 13:23:17 +0100

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi> writes:

> There is one file with access time ("ls -ltu") 2021-02-05. It should
> have been removed already but it is the last article in its group so it
> remains.

I haven't tried to debug this, but this does sound familiar.  I seem to
vaguely remember that the Agent has to been the highest-numbered article
for accounting reasons?  So expiry doesn't touch the newest article.

I may be totally misremembering, though.

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