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Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#68660: 29.2; ELPA: Wrong type argument w. multiple maintainers in package-menu-mode Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 06:57:39 -0800 Message-ID: <87o7dcm718.fsf__35417.8748837271$1706021964$gmane$org@neverwas.me> References: <877ck14dt4.fsf@neverwas.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34390"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cc: emacs-erc@gnu.org, 68660@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 23 15:59:16 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rSIF9-0008h5-7j for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:59:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rSIEs-0007ti-Rz; Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:58:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rSIEs-0007tW-04 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:58:58 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1rSIEr-0007gY-O0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:58:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1rSIEw-0000sN-0g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:59:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "J.P." 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Hit the _erc_ button: >> >> => describe-package-1: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, >> ("Amin Bandali" . "bandali@gnu.org") > > I believe this is already fixed in `master`. > Luckily, this bug does not affect `package-install`. Hm, I'm starting to suspect this perceived "breakage" may in fact be intentional (i.e., a "schema evolution"), at least on the /devel endpoint, given it seems to be reflected in the disparity between ;; /devel/archive-contents (:maintainer ("Bob Weiner" . "rsw@gnu.org") ("Mats Lidell" . "matsl@gnu.org")) and ;; /packages/archive-contents (:maintainer "Bob Weiner , Mats Lidell" . "matsl@gnu.org") And likewise for ./foo-pkg.el in ;; /devel/foo-42.0.tar (define-package ... :maintainer '(("Bob Weiner" . "rsw@gnu.org") ("Mats Lidell" . "matsl@gnu.org"))) vs. ;; /packages/foo-42.0.tar (define-package ... :maintainer '("Bob Weiner , Mats Lidell" . "matsl@gnu.org")) Assuming this isn't a red herring, will this perceived dichotomy hold going forward? That is, can we count on releases at the /packages endpoint being of the improper-list variety and not the alist variety for the foreseeable future? If so, then I guess this bug is much ado about nothing and can be closed, since ERC 5.6+ will be installable on 27+ in the manner recommended in our docs. Thanks, J.P.