Neither my fix for #969 nor the followup by entrez dealt with this:
if you were in one shop and dug the wall it shared with another shop,
sometimes the shopkeeper for the room your were in would teleport to
you and demand payment--or attack if you lacked funds--other times the
one from the far room would do so. For the latter, if you maneuvered
to the gap in the wall (possibly declining to die if angry shopkeeper
managed to kill you) you would get "this shop is deserted" (which is
accurate) but if you subsequently died there, you could get "Welcome
to so-and-so's shop" when the shopkeeper who abandoned her shop was
returned to occupancy after one of them took possession of invent.
And the welcome message might come from the shop that hadn't been
deserted and that you had never left. (Perhaps always from that one;
I'm not sure.)
Possibly the shopkeeper for the room you're in should get priority
when demanding payment for repairs so that the other one won't
abandon the far shop, but I didn't attempt to tackle that. This
just suppresses room entry messages when returning the shopkeeper to
her shop if the game is ending.
Not fixed, but amusing: in one of the tests, the 'far' shopkeeper
who had teleported into the near shop to demand payment for the dug
wall picked up an item from the near shop (in the case I noticed, a
hardware store shk picked up a food ration; just an ordinary item
owned by the stop) while pursuing me to the wall gap. One shk was
stealing from the other. :-)
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