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bug#70030: 29.3; package.el confused by ELPA nongnu archive meta-data fo
From: |
Herbert Valerio Riedel |
Subject: |
bug#70030: 29.3; package.el confused by ELPA nongnu archive meta-data for `annotate` listing multiple maintainers |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:21:10 +0100 |
Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> 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")
...
> 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.
Oh, sorry for the noise then... I should have tried harder to find a
preexisting bug report about this :-/
However, what shall be done about entries with malformed :maintainer
properties such as
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(gnuplot .
[(0 8 1)
((emacs
(25 1)))
"Major-mode and interactive frontend for gnuplot" tar
((:url . "https://github.com/emacs-gnuplot/gnuplot")
(:keywords "data" "gnuplot" "plotting")
(:maintainer "Maxime Tréca <maxime@gmail.com>, Daniel Mendler" .
"mail@daniel-mendler.de")
(:authors
("Jon Oddie, Bruce Ravel, Phil Type"))
(:commit . "663a89d263d4f26b996796d01b6a3b783449e0f5"))])
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
is this considered an package bug to be dealt with by the upstream
maintainer or rather a bug in the ELPA archive index creation step (and
whom shall I contact for that?) which apparently extracted the
information from
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/emacs-gnuplot/gnuplot/0.8.1/gnuplot.el
which states
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;; Author: Jon Oddie, Bruce Ravel, Phil Type
;; Maintainer: Maxime Tréca <maxime@gmail.com>, Daniel Mendler
<mail@daniel-mendler.de>
;; Created: 1998
;; Version: 0.8.1
;; Keywords: data gnuplot plotting
;; URL: https://github.com/emacs-gnuplot/gnuplot
;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "25.1"))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---