Package: gnats-user
Version: 4.1.0-0
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

When choosing a database in the Emacs interface (e.g. C-u M-x send-pr), an
error is reported when it gets up to asking you for the port number.  The
error complains about (stringp 1579) and is caused by passing an integer
(1579) to read-from-minibuffer, which expects a string.

The attached patch simply puts quotes around the default port number.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (800, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-11-amd64-k8
Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gnats-user depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.4.57     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.14.1     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  exim4                         4.52-1     metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.52-1     lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-5    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

gnats-user recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded

*** gnats.el-port_number.patch
diff -c -L /sudo::/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnats/gnats.el~ -L 
/sudo::/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnats/gnats.el /tmp/tramp.3233frk 
/tmp/tramp.3233s1q
*** /sudo::/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnats/gnats.el~
--- /sudo::/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gnats/gnats.el
***************
*** 1626,1632 ****
         (string-to-number
          (read-from-minibuffer "Port: " (if gnats-port
                                             (format "%d" gnats-port)
!                                          1529)))
         (read-from-minibuffer "User: " (or gnats-user (user-login-name)))))
    (setq gnats-database database
        gnats-server host
--- 1626,1632 ----
         (string-to-number
          (read-from-minibuffer "Port: " (if gnats-port
                                             (format "%d" gnats-port)
!                                          "1529")))
         (read-from-minibuffer "User: " (or gnats-user (user-login-name)))))
    (setq gnats-database database
        gnats-server host

Diff finished.  Tue Aug 30 21:56:29 2005


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