From d678095d890861001ffe3648a348f682d048bba4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Mach <daniel.mach@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:16:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix core.change_request_state_template() to always return a
 string

---
 osc/core.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/osc/core.py b/osc/core.py
index ba47e934..5005a977 100644
--- a/osc/core.py
+++ b/osc/core.py
@@ -4753,7 +4753,7 @@ def change_request_state_template(req, newstate):
         return ''
     action = req.actions[0]
     tmpl_name = '%srequest_%s_template' % (action.type, newstate)
-    tmpl = conf.config.get(tmpl_name, '')
+    tmpl = conf.config.get(tmpl_name, "") or ""
     tmpl = tmpl.replace('\\t', '\t').replace('\\n', '\n')
     data = {'reqid': req.reqid, 'type': action.type, 'who': req.creator}
     if req.actions[0].type == 'submit':