Tim Landscheidt writes: > With Emacs 26.1, M-x gnus-read-ephemeral-bug-group RET > foobar RET gives "gnus-list-of-unread-articles: Group > nndoc+ephemeral:bug#0 couldn’t be activated", while leaving > a temporary file with the contents: > > | > | Error > | > | An error occurred. > | Error was: No bug number > | > > behind in /tmp. > > This also happens with gnus-read-ephemeral-emacs-bug-group > and gnus-read-ephemeral-debian-bug-group. The attached patch fixes this for Emacs 27. It also improves the reading and handling of multiple string/numeric bug IDs, which is currently quite brittle, and extends some of the relevant documentation. WDYT? > For GNU bugs, fixing this might be made easier by updating > debbugs.gnu.org as it currently returns 200 OK for non-ex- > isting bugs: > > | [tim@passepartout ~]$ curl -is 'https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=foobar;mboxmaint=yes;mboxstat=yes' | head -1 > | HTTP/1.1 200 OK > | [tim@passepartout ~]$ > > while bugs.debian.org gives a status code that can be used > for diagnostics: > > | [tim@passepartout ~]$ curl -is 'https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=595256;mboxmaint=yes;mboxstat=yes' | head -1 > | HTTP/1.1 200 OK > | [tim@passepartout ~]$ curl -is 'https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=4711;mboxmaint=yes;mboxstat=yes' | head -1 > | HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found > | [tim@passepartout ~]$ I think the attached patch is as good as gnus-read-ephemeral-bug-group can do for now, without fixing several known deficiencies of the url.el library and debbugs.gnu.org instance (each of which deserves its own bug ticket if it doesn't already have one). Thanks, -- Basil