bug#70030: 29.3; package.el confused by ELPA nongnu archive meta-data for `annotate` listing multiple maintainers

[Philip Kaludercic]

Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org> writes:

> I'm not sure if this a bug in package.el proper or rather an ELPA
> archive bug:
>
> When invoking `M-x describe-package annotate` to describe the `annotate`
> package from https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/annotate.html the function
> errors out with
>
>     describe-package-1: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, ("Bastian 
> Bechtold" . "bastibe.dev@mailbox.org")
>
> and its backtrace is basically
>
>     Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p 
> ("Bastian Bechtold" . "bastibe.dev@mailbox.org"))
>       package--print-email-button((("Bastian Bechtold" . 
> "bastibe.dev@mailbox.org") ("cage" . "cage-dev@twistfold.it")))
>       describe-package-1(annotate)
>       #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode -0xc22abc67090fa64>)()
>       help--window-setup("*Help*" #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 
> -0xc22abc67090fa64>))
>       describe-package(annotate)
>
> pointing to the function `package--print-email-button` specifically not
> being able to deal with the maintainer value

This sounds like a duplicate of bug#68288, that was resolved with
73cb931e5bab1b956f0569cd542468cfa7f4c9a7.  I cannot reproduce the bug on
master, either with annotate or with marginalia.

>
> In fact, the 'annotate' meta-data entry in
> `~/.emacs.d/elpa/archives/nongnu/archive-contents` looks like
>
>     (annotate .
>            [(2 2 1)
>             nil "annotate files without changing them" tar
>             ((:url . "https://github.com/bastibe/annotate.el";)
>              (:maintainer
>               ("Bastian Bechtold" . "bastibe.dev@mailbox.org")
>               ("cage" . "cage-dev@twistfold.it"))
>              (:commit . "a388c39231207f6234ca1af547dbd29995ee476f"))])
>
> as far as I could see, most package entries have rather a maintainer
> value such as
>
>     (:maintainer "Jordon Biondo" . "jordonbiondo@gmail.com")
>
> or sometimes without an email addr, such as
>
>     (:maintainer "Benjamin Beckwith")
>
> and in some cases even something weird like
>
>     (:maintainer "Andrea Orru <andreaorru1991@gmail.com>, Andrew Kelley" . 
> "superjoe30@gmail.com")
>
> which is surely not intended to be that way...
>
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>
> In GNU Emacs 29.3 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20,
>  cairo version 1.16.0) of 2024-03-25 built on bos03-amd64-034
> Repository revision: 73d7d08f3f07a68b198e5ba230a474ba019e6a8a
> Repository branch: master
> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12008000
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        Philip Kaludercic on peregrine