bug#36903: 27.0.50; gnus registry vs. debbugs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> I can do that for in-tree code, and my own packages, but who knows what
> else is out there that might try something similar.

Well, we can't control out-of-tree code, but Gnus should (in general) be
able to generate a summary buffer without Gnus having been started -- I
mean, that's a design goal.

> But it's probably a better solution than anything else I can think of.
> I'd be inclined to just have them return an empty string. Another
> possibility would be to have the formatting code wrap the user-function
> funcall in `ignore-errors' and return an empty string there.

That doesn't sound very friendly when trying to debug errors...

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