bug#62812: [PATCH] Re: bug#62812: 29.0.60; Persistent article cache not working properly

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net>
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:07:51 +0530
> 
> James Thomas wrote:
> 
> > Turned out to be a trivial fix:
> >
> > diff --git a/lisp/gnus/nnmail.el b/lisp/gnus/nnmail.el
> > index e8f157392d4..904b564409a 100644
> > --- a/lisp/gnus/nnmail.el
> > +++ b/lisp/gnus/nnmail.el
> > @@ -667,7 +667,9 @@ nnmail-parse-active
> >               (cond ((symbolp group)
> >                      (symbol-name group))
> >                     ((numberp group)
> > -                    (number-to-string group))))
> > +                    (number-to-string group))
> > +                        ((stringp group)
> > +                    group)))
> >         (if (and (numberp (setq max (read buffer)))
> >                  (numberp (setq min (read buffer))))
> >             (push (list group (cons min max))
> 
> And it'll merely make it the same as this already-existing code
> elsewhere:
> 
> diff -u --label ./lisp/gnus/gnus-start.el --label \#\<buffer\ gnus-start.el\> 
> ./lisp/gnus/gnus-start.el /tmp/buffer-content-IYvzRp
> --- ./lisp/gnus/gnus-start.el
> +++ #<buffer gnus-start.el>
> @@ -2149,8 +2149,6 @@
>                                            (number-to-string group))
>                                           ((symbolp group)
>                                            (symbol-name group))
> -                                         ((stringp group)
> -                                          group)))))
>                    (numberp (setq max (read cur)))
>                    (numberp (setq min (read cur)))
>                    (null (progn
> 
> --

Eric, Andrew: any comments?