bug#19583: nntp-open-server: wrong buffer for nnoo-change-server; breaks url-news

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> writes:

>       As of 88bc8332eb14 (2015-01-07 13:51:41 +0000), nntp-open-server
>       appears to call nnoo-change-server without switching to
>       nntp-server-buffer first, thus installing the local variables in
>       the whatever buffer current at the time it’s called.  One of
>       these variables is nntp-port-number, which means that when
>       open-protocol-stream is called in the proper buffer later, it
>       gets 0 for the port number to connect, and thus fails.
>
>       This affects url-retrieve-synchronously; consider, e. g.:

Since this hasn't worked in a year, this suggests that `url-news' isn't
used any more.  I suggest removing it.

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