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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: emacs18@gmail.com
Cc: 8469@debbugs.gnu.org, Jason Rohwedder <jro@codegrinder.com>
Subject: bug#8469: 24.0.50; package.el cannot handle long package names
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:47:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hb9kvohb.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qtmzknxvqw0.fsf@gmail.com> (emacs's message of "Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:38:07 -0700")

emacs18@gmail.com, Richard Kim <emacs18@gmail.com> writes:

> package.el was recently changed to make use of tabulated-list.el.
> This seems to be causing problems when a package name is too long.
> The threshold seems to be some length between 15 and 19 characters.
>
> To see the problem, start emacs with -q option, then execute the
> following code:
>
>     (require 'package)
>     (custom-set-variables
>      '(package-archives '(("tromey" . "http://tromey.com/elpa/"))))
>     (package-list-packages)
>
> This results in the stack trace shown below where the problem is with
> a package named "compilation-recenter-end" which has 24 characters long.

I think this was fixed in Leo's 2011-04-10 change; at least, I can't
reproduce this with latest trunk.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-26 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-10 19:38 bug#8469: 24.0.50; package.el cannot handle long package names emacs18
2011-04-25 18:34 ` bug#8469: me too Jason Rohwedder
2011-04-26 18:47 ` Chong Yidong [this message]

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