Re: Problem with Gnus

[Kevin Greiner]

Reiner Steib <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 20 2004, Kim F. Storm wrote:
>
> [ Changing the order of the questions...]
>> Q2:  What about legacy-gnus-agent.el ?
>>
>> Looking at the code in gnus-start.el, it seems to expect
>> a file named legacy-gnus-agent.el (also according to ChangeLog).
>>
>> Anybody else having seen this?
>
> Yes.  After adding `legacy-gnus-agent.el' (from the current Gnus
> trunk; see attachment) to emacs/lisp/gnus, it worked for me.
>
> Kevin has synched some agent-related bugfixes from the trunk to the
> v5-10 branch.  It seems he forgot to install `legacy-gnus-agent.el' in
> the v5-10 branch.
>
> In order to minimize the inconvenience, I think it's best if I "cvs
> add legacy-gnus-agent.el" in Emacs soon (instead of fixing it in
> Gnus/v5-10 and waiting for the semi-automatic syncing).  I have to
> leave now, but I can do it in a couple of hours unless someone has a
> better suggestion.

I've created the v5-10 branch for legacy-gnus-agent.el.  It's
identical to version that you added so all should be well.

>> When I do M-x gnus, it now asks me
>>
>>   Convert gnus from version '5.11' to '5.11' (n/y/?)
>>
>> Q1:  Is this to be expected?
>>
>> Both gnus-version and gnus-newsrc-file-version are "Gnus v5.11".
>
> Kevin, could you check for which versions a migration in
> `gnus-convert-old-newsrc' is necessary for users of Gnus v5.11?  (This
> version is the same as in the v5-10 branch; (gnus-continuum-version)
> gives 5.11 whereas No Gnus has 5.110003.)  A problem might be that the
> version numbers are not really one-dimensional anymore in the sense of
> features.

Strange.  I'll look into it tonight.

Kevin