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27.2; C-u M-x gnus-summary-sort-by-most-recent-number / -date not ordering threads as expected

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Message #29 received at 53755 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd <at> md5i.com>,
 Emilia Blåsten <emilia.blasten <at> iki.fi>, 53755 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#53755: 27.2; C-u M-x
 gnus-summary-sort-by-most-recent-number / -date not ordering threads as
 expected
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 01:03:50 +0100

Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Now that Michael has blessed us with a patch, I guess I could live with
> keeping it applied locally, but I really wonder how useful the current
> semantics of gnus-thread-sort-by-most-recent-date are… since… threads
> don't end up sorted by date 🙃

We could apply Michael's patch, but it needs a user option to switch
between the two behaviours, and for it to be generally useful, it needs
all those different sorting functions I mentioned in that other bug
report, I think...

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