haj@posteo.de (Harald Jörg) writes:

> 1) M-x list-packages
> 2) select any package (in my case: eglot)
> 3) click "install"
>
> The popup "Install package eglot-1.7" has garbage characters before
> "eglot" and after "1.7".  Screenshot attached.

I'm unable to reproduce this under Debian/bullseye: