* gnus.el (gnus-agent-covered-methods): Documented use of
named servers, not methods, to identity agentized groups.
Users may now change their server configurations without having
the server become "unagentized".
(gnus-agent-covered-methods): Removed from gnus-variable-list to
avoid storing two copies of gnus-agent-covered-methods, one in
.newsrc.eld and the other in agent/lib/servers.
(gnus-server-to-method): Do not cache server for the nil method.
(gnus-method-to-server): New function. Associate named server
with all, even foreign, methods.
(gnus-agent-method-p, gnus-agent-method-p-cache): Incorporated
simple last-response cache to offset performance lose of having to
always convert methods to named servers.
* gnus-agent.el (gnus-agent-expire-days): Removed obsolete
documentation.
(gnus-agentize, gnus-agent-add-server, gnus-agent-remove-server):
Modified to support new definition of gnus-agent-covered-method.
(gnus-agent-read-servers): Rewritten to convert old method data
into server names.
(gnus-agent-read-servers-validate)
(gnus-agent-read-servers-validate-native): New functions.
(gnus-agent-write-servers): No longer use gnus-method-simplify as
it failed to simplify foreign methods.
(gnus-agent-close-connections, gnus-agent-synchronize-flags)
(gnus-agent-possibly-synchronize-flags, gnus-agent-fetch-session)
(gnus-agent-regenerate): Uses new gnus-agent-covered-methods
function as gnus-agent-covered-methods variable no longer provides
methods.
(gnus-agent-covered-methods): New function
(gnus-agent-expire-group, gnus-agent-expire): Final message will,
if gnus-verbose is greater than 4, report statistics of NOV
entries and files deleted as well as total bytes recovered.
(gnus-agent-expire-done-message): New function
(gnus-agent-unread-articles): Bug fix. No longer drops last
unread article onto read list.
(gnus-agent-regenerate-group): Changed prompt to use typical
style.
(gnus-agent-group-covered-p): Rewrote to internally use
gnus-agent-method-p.
* gnus-int.el (gnus-start-news-server): Partially convert old
gnus-agent-covered-methods to new format so that gnus-open-server
functions correctly.
* gnus-srvr.el (gnus-server-insert-server-line): Replaced
gnus-agent-covered-methods with gnus-agent-method-p.
* gnus-start.el (gnus-clear-system): Added
gnus-agent-covered-methods to compensate for removing it from
gnus-variable-list.
(gnus-setup-news): Complete conversion of old
gnus-agent-covered-methods to new format so that secondary and
foreign servers can be correctly opened.