bug#33005: 27.0.50; Data loss with Gnus registry

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On 10/18/19 11:18 AM, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> 1. Put a breakpoint or edebug or otherwise slow the function down, and
>> after the data directory has been copied to /tmp, make sure that it
>> belongs to your user and you have the right permissions?
>
> That's the case.
>
>> 2. Try this version of gnus-mock-start and see if it works:
>
> I did something different.  Seems that so-long is to blame:

Well it seems pretty odd that a package meant for handling single-line
files would prevent us from editing a file at all. I don't even see why
so-long would even be kicking in, here -- the newsrc.eld template isn't
one long line!

I guess I can do the inhibit-read-only thing, but if I've got to
anticipate something like this happening, it's hard to guess what else I
might need to defend against...