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00873: Restore not possible if draft exists

Description: Restoring an older version of a page is not possible if a draft version of that page exists.

Details:

• ?action=diff of a (non-draft) page offers "restore" links to bring back older versions
• this mechanism uses ?action=edit to review the version to be restored
• if $EnableDrafts=1 is set, ?action=edit always redirects to an existing draft version (EditDraft handler)
• so an old version of a page cannot be restored unless an existing draft is deleted

This behaviour is unexpected.

• If it's considered as a feature, the "restore" link should be inactive and labelled somehow like "restore impossible - publish or delete existing draft first".
• I think it should be possible to restore old version without touching an existing draft.

Checked with both current 2.1 and 2.2beta versions.