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bug#38381: 27.0.50; Bump Gnus version to 5.14, properly encode group nam
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Eric Abrahamsen |
Subject: |
bug#38381: 27.0.50; Bump Gnus version to 5.14, properly encode group names on disk |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Nov 2019 20:26:40 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Okay, but there is a whole upgrade mechanism in place that's
>> specifically for upgrading the .newsrc.eld file to a new version, so
>> this wouldn't be the first time it's happened.
>
> It's only been used once, back in... what... 1996? (There's other
> converters for agentey stuff, but that's not very impactful.) And if I
> remember correctly, it wasn't backwards-incompatible... just
> forwards-incompatible.
>
>> That said, the current situation seems to be working fine; if we've got
>> to keep it, we've got to keep it. I'd like to keep this bug report open,
>> though.
>
> If we're not going to do conversion like that, I don't see much point in
> keeping the bug report open?
One can hope...
Never mind.