bug#36903: 27.0.50; gnus registry vs. debbugs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> The conclusion is I don't know what to do. Users who have customized
> `gnus-summary-line-format' to draw info from the registry will see an
> error if they start Gnus, stop Gnus, then start debbugs-gnu. That's
> because stopping Gnus clears the registry, but starting debbugs-gnu
> doesn't re-load it (because it doesn't load the users gnus.el file), and
> the summary line format continues trying to access the registry object.

Can't you just make the erroring-out functions return "" or something if
they're called before the registry is loaded?  Or make them initialise
the registry if called when it's not loaded?

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