From: Federico Tedin <federicotedin@gmail.com>
To: Xu Chunyang <mail@xuchunyang.me>
Cc: 34147@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34147: 27.0.50; M-x describe-package groovy-mode breaks
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:08:11 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878syt96lg.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2munvtl2l.fsf@xuchunyang.me>
> By evaluating describe-package-1 to get detailed Backtrace (I didn't
> paste it since it is very long), it seems the error is caused by the
> "last" expression of describe-package-1:
>
> (insert readme-string)
>
> when readme-string is nil.
>
> I notice Melpa fails to provide the readme file, this URL is 404
>
> https://melpa.org/packages/groovy-mode-readme.txt
It looks like when a package doesn't provide a 'Commentary' field, the
xyz-readme.txt file isn't generated by MELPA (see
https://github.com/melpa/package-build/blob/master/package-build.el#L382).
Other packages without 'Commentary' (in no particular order):
- instapaper
- javap-mode
- tdd-status-mode-line
- jknav
- runtests
Using C-h P on these packages will trigger the same error. I guess we
could replace:
(insert readme-string)
with:
(when readme-string
(insert readme-string))
or:
(if readme-string
(insert readme-string)
(insert "This package does not provide a description."))
to cover cases where the xyz-readme.txt file for the package doesn't
exist.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-05 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-20 15:17 bug#34147: 27.0.50; M-x describe-package groovy-mode breaks Xu Chunyang
2019-02-05 23:08 ` Federico Tedin [this message]
2019-03-13 0:39 ` Federico Tedin
2019-03-22 4:10 ` Stefan Monnier
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