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bug#70030: 29.3; package.el confused by ELPA nongnu archive meta-data fo
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Philip Kaludercic |
Subject: |
bug#70030: 29.3; package.el confused by ELPA nongnu archive meta-data for `annotate` listing multiple maintainers |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Mar 2024 07:59:27 +0000 |
Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org> writes:
> 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 :-/
No problem, I'll close the bug then.
> However, what shall be done about entries with malformed :maintainer
> properties such as
>
> (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"))])
>
>
> 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
>
> ;; 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"))
That is not the responsibility of the package maintainers. Their header
is well-formed, I believe this was a bug with the elpa-admin.el script.
Either way, if I run the script locally, I get this entry in
archive-contents:
--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"))
(:commit . "663a89d263d4f26b996796d01b6a3b783449e0f5"))])
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
So the issue can be fixed upstream by releasing a new version of the
package.
--
Philip Kaludercic on peregrine