bug#64543: [PATCH] package-report-bug: don't fail on custom groups defined by eval

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

sbaugh@catern.com writes:

Thanks,

> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@catern.com>
> Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2023 12:59:50 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] package-report-bug: don't fail on custom groups defined by
>  eval
>
> Previously we just assumed that the car of an element of
> custom-current-group-alist was a filename.  But actually it can be nil
> if a custom group was defined by just evaling Lisp.

Where is this behaviour documented?  I couldn't reproduce it with a
simple experiment.

> * lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el (package-report-bug): Don't fail when a
> custom group was defined by eval.
> ---
>  lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
> index 3e6acd9b388..f67e99e04b5 100644
> --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
> +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
> @@ -4642,6 +4642,7 @@ package-report-bug
>                     (boundp (car ent))
>                     (not (eq (custom--standard-value (car ent))
>                              (default-toplevel-value (car ent))))
> +                   (car group)

If you are checking for (car group), when do this in the loop instead
of wrapping the entire `dolist'?

>                     (file-in-directory-p (car group) (package-desc-dir desc)))
>            (push (car ent) vars))))
>      (dlet ((reporter-prompt-for-summary-p t))