tags 22311 + patch
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Tao Fang <fangtao0901@gmail.com> writes:

>   There is a misused function read-from-string in package.el L1485:
>
>   1472	(defun package--download-one-archive (archive file &optional async)

>   1485	      (when (listp (read-from-string content))

> (listp (read-from-string content)) will always return t, if archive-contents file download
> finished with malformed content (e.g. error message return from proxy
> server), it will be parsed and saved by mistake.
>
> Simply replace (read-from-string) with (read) would resolve this, I think.

Right, seems it's a regression in 25.1.  So I think the patch below
should go to emacs-26.