bug#4048: 23.1; erc-server-reconnect-attempts does not work

[Vivek Dasmohapatra]

Tags: patch

Does this patch make the problem go away? It seems to work here.

The problem was that erc-mode was killing all local variables, even when
the mode was already erc-mode : The patch makes it preserve the
reconnection count in that case, which seems to have the desired effect
without adversely affecting anything else.

[ Stomping on the route didn't work for me as the existing connection was
  grandfathered in by the kernel: Installing a local ircd and shutting it
  down behind the client's back worked nicely though. ]

0001-Preserve-the-reconnection-count-when-reinitialising-.patch
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