bug#44793: 28.0.50; EBDB ebdb-mua-update-records now not working in gnus-summary-mode

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>>> M-x ebdb-mua-update-recors now says it is not supported in
>>> gnus-summary-mode.
>>> ebdb version 0.6.21 (upated today)
>>>
>>>
>>> In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin20.1.0, NS
>>> appkit-2022.10 Version 11.0.1 (Build 20B29))
>>>  of 2020-11-22 built on mb2.local
>>> Repository revision: fb9326b45c769f83b619278eae41f680577d1b05
>>> Repository branch: master
>>> Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.2022
>>> System Description:  macOS 11.0.1
>>
>> This is still fairly mysterious, though. If restarting Emacs doesn't
>> help, can you eval this manually and see if it works?
>>
>> (cl-defmethod ebdb-mua-message-header ((header string)
>>                                 &context (major-mode gnus-summary-mode))
>>   "Return value of HEADER for current Gnus message."
>>   (set-buffer gnus-article-buffer)
>>   (gnus-fetch-original-field header))
>
> Restarting emacs fixed it. :-| Not sure what happened.

I get the sense that generic methods aren't 100% compatible with hot
reloading, not sure why.