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Feature Request: Add option to docheckgroups to prevent removal of newsgroups descriptions
When using docheckgroups, there does not exist an option to keep newsgroups descriptions for groups it think should be removed. In my configuration I am overriding the defaults and not processing rmgroup via controlchan.
When running docheckgroups I would like to keep the newsgroups descriptions updated without removing descriptions. Maybe an additional flag that when passed will update/add any descriptions but not remove?
I can add a -k flag to docheckgroups that does what you ask for (keeping descriptions).
I'm wondering though whether it should not be a global parameter in inn.conf, like keepdescriptions: true/false (being false by default). The advantage would be that the behaviour would then be consistent between docheckgroups, cleannewsgroups (a contrib script) and when control articles are processed (control/modules/checkgroups.pl and rmgroup.pl). A user may want to keep old descriptions during automatical checkgroups and rmgroup processing too.
As a side note, if you currently want docheckgroups to keep old descriptions, you could add them to a file named localgroups in pathetc, and it will keep them.
