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(mh-insert-letter): If a message number isn't given, throw an error rather than using a potentially incorrect message number (closes SF #1473729). In addition, use the cur message if mh-sent-from-msg is nil (when sending a message, in contrast to replying). Move conversion of int to string into interactive stanza so body can assume variables are of proper type.

#! /bin/bash

if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
    echo "usage: $0 <old version number> <new version number>" >&2
    exit 1
fi

if [ ! -f INSTALL -o ! -f configure -o ! -d lib-src ]; then
    echo "this script should be run in the emacs root directory" >&2
    exit 2
fi

OLD=$1
NEW=$2
outfile=emacs-$NEW.announce
oldtag=EMACS_PRETEST_$(echo $OLD|tr . _)
newtag=EMACS_PRETEST_$(echo $NEW|tr . _)

if [ -f $outfile ]; then
    echo "$outfile exists"
    echo -n "interrupt to abort, ENTER to overwrite "; read answer
fi

echo -n "tag name for OLD emacs version $OLD [$oldtag]: "; read answer
if [ "$answer" ]; then oldtag=$answer; fi

echo -n "tag name for NEW emacs version $NEW [$newtag]: "; read answer
if [ "$answer" ]; then newtag=$answer; fi

exec > $outfile

cat <<EOF

There is a new pretest available in

  <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-$NEW.tar.gz>
  <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/leim-$NEW.tar.gz>

Please report results from compiling and running the pretest to
<[e-mail]>.  Your feedback is necessary for us
to know on which platforms the pretest has been tried.
Please say whether you built with LEIM or not.

If you have the tars from the previous pretest, and you have the
\`xdelta' utility, you can instead download the much smaller

  <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-$OLD-$NEW.xdelta>
  <ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/leim-$OLD-$NEW.xdelta>

You can use a command like

  $ xdelta patch XDELTA PREVIOUS-TAR CURRENT-TAR

to generate the new tar from the old one, where XDELTA is the xdelta
file you downloaded, PREVIOUS-TAR is the tar file from the previous
pretest, and CURRENT-TAR is the name of the tar file you downloaded.

Information about xdelta can be found on the GNU ftp site, in
/non-gnu/xdelta.README.

Changes since $OLD

EOF

make-changelog-diff $oldtag $newtag

echo " announcement created in $outfile" >&2

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