GNU bug report logs - #36433
gnus-read-ephemeral-bug-group does not handle errors, leaving temporary files behind

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Packages: gnus, emacs;

Reported by: Tim Landscheidt <tim <at> tim-landscheidt.de>

Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 12:58:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 5.13

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tim Landscheidt <tim <at> tim-landscheidt.de>
To: submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys)
Subject: gnus-read-ephemeral-bug-group does not handle errors,
 leaving temporary files behind
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 12:57:47 +0000

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:

| <HTML>
| <HEAD><TITLE>Error</TITLE></HEAD>
| <BODY>
| An error occurred.
| Error was: No bug number
| </BODY></HTML>

behind in /tmp.

This also happens with gnus-read-ephemeral-emacs-bug-group
and gnus-read-ephemeral-debian-bug-group.

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 <at> passepartout ~]$ curl -is 'https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=foobar;mboxmaint=yes;mboxstat=yes' | head -1
| HTTP/1.1 200 OK
| [tim <at> passepartout ~]$

while bugs.debian.org gives a status code that can be used
for diagnostics:

| [tim <at> 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 <at> 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 <at> passepartout ~]$
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