bug in ELPA archive-contents archive--write-pkg-file

bug in ELPA archive-contents archive--write-pkg-file

[Stephen Leake]

In an ELPA package, if I have a "Keywords:" line in my main file with
multiple keywords, the generated -pkg.el file has invalid syntax:


(define-package "ada-mode" "5.0" "major-mode for editing Ada sources" '((wisi "1.0")) :url "http://stephe-leake.org/emacs/ada-mode/emacs-ada-mode.html" :keywords ("languages" "ada"))

After installing this package, attempting to load it gives : 

Invalid function: "languages"

The elisp that produces this is in elpa/admin/archive-contents.el
archive--write-pkg-file, which uses prin1-to-string on the results of
(archive--alist-to-plist extras).

Apparently prin1-to-string should be adding ' on a literal list?

I don't know how to fix this, so the only work-around I have is to
delete the "Keywords:" line.


Do we report bugs like this on debbugs? If so, what package and/or other
tags should be used?

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-- Stephe

Re: bug in ELPA archive-contents archive--write-pkg-file

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Stephen Leake
<stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote:
> In an ELPA package, if I have a "Keywords:" line in my main file with
> multiple keywords, the generated -pkg.el file has invalid syntax:

I think this is bug#16222: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16222

Re: bug in ELPA archive-contents archive--write-pkg-file

[Stephen Leake]

Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Stephen Leake
> <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote:
>> In an ELPA package, if I have a "Keywords:" line in my main file with
>> multiple keywords, the generated -pkg.el file has invalid syntax:
>
> I think this is bug#16222: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16222

Yes, that's it.

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-- Stephe