Steps to reproduce:
Emacs -Q
M-: (package-initialize)
M-: (describe-package 'auctex)
These give an error with the following backtrace:
#+begin_src elisp
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp "
auctex-devel@gnu.org")
describe-package-1(auctex)
#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x14658afd66b6c08d>)()
help--window-setup("*Help*" #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x14658afd66b6c08d>))
describe-package(auctex)
(progn (describe-package 'auctex))
eval((progn (describe-package 'auctex)) t)
elisp--eval-last-sexp(t)
#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0x1866e58ce5d2>)()
eval-last-sexp(t)
eval-print-last-sexp(nil)
funcall-interactively(eval-print-last-sexp nil)
command-execute(eval-print-last-sexp)
#+end_src
I'm not familiar enough with how Emacs packaging works to know if this is an issue with auctex, my setup or something else, but I noticed that auctex is the only entry in my package-alist with ":maintainer nil". The error comes from the following block of code, which is called with "maintainers" equal to "(nil . "
auctex-devel@gnu.org")":
#+begin_src elisp
(dolist (maintainer maintainers)
(when (bolp)tain
(insert (make-string 13 ?\s)))
(package--print-email-button maintainer))
#+end_src
The following simpler code produces the same error:
#+begin_src elisp
(dolist (maintainer '(nil . "
auctex-devel@gnu.org")))
#+end_src
Any suggestions welcome. I also tried this with the latest devel version and encountered the same error -- I guess it's an issue with how the package is listed, which is maybe something to do with elpa?
Thanks, best,
Paul
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Emacs : GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin23.3.0, NS appkit-2487.40 Version 14.3.1 (Build 23D60))
of 2024-04-02
Package: 14.0.3.2024-03-17
current state:
==============
(setq
AUCTeX-date "2024-03-17"
window-system 'ns
LaTeX-version "2e"
TeX-style-path '("/usr/local/var/auctex"
"/Users/au710211/.emacs.d/elpa/auctex-14.0.4/style"
"/Users/au710211/.emacs.d/auctex/auto"
"/Users/au710211/.emacs.d/auctex/style" "auto" "style")
TeX-auto-save nil
TeX-parse-self nil
TeX-master t
TeX-command-list '(("TeX"
"%(PDF)%(tex) %(file-line-error) %`%(extraopts) %S%(PDFout)%(mode)%' %(output-dir) %t"
TeX-run-TeX nil (plain-TeX-mode AmSTeX-mode Texinfo-mode) :help
"Run plain TeX")
("LaTeX" "%`%l%(mode)%' %T" TeX-run-TeX nil (LaTeX-mode docTeX-mode)
:help "Run LaTeX")
("Makeinfo" "makeinfo %(extraopts) %(o-dir) %t" TeX-run-compile nil
(Texinfo-mode) :help "Run Makeinfo with Info output")
("Makeinfo HTML" "makeinfo %(extraopts) %(o-dir) --html %t"
TeX-run-compile nil (Texinfo-mode) :help
"Run Makeinfo with HTML output")
("AmSTeX"
"amstex %(PDFout) %`%(extraopts) %S%(mode)%' %(output-dir) %t"
TeX-run-TeX nil (AmSTeX-mode) :help "Run AMSTeX")
("ConTeXt" "%(cntxcom) --once --texutil %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t"
TeX-run-TeX nil (ConTeXt-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt once")
("ConTeXt Full" "%(cntxcom) %(extraopts) %(execopts)%t" TeX-run-TeX nil
(ConTeXt-mode) :help "Run ConTeXt until completion")
("BibTeX" "bibtex %(O?aux)" TeX-run-BibTeX nil
(plain-TeX-mode LaTeX-mode docTeX-mode AmSTeX-mode Texinfo-mode
ConTeXt-mode)
:help "Run BibTeX")
("Biber" "biber %(output-dir) %s" TeX-run-Biber nil
(plain-TeX-mode LaTeX-mode docTeX-mode AmSTeX-mode Texinfo-mode) :help
"Run Biber")
("Texindex" "texindex %s.??" TeX-run-command nil (Texinfo-mode) :help
"Run Texindex")
("Texi2dvi" "%(PDF)texi2dvi %t" TeX-run-command nil (Texinfo-mode)
:help "Run Texi2dvi or Texi2pdf")
("View" "%V" TeX-run-discard-or-function t t :help "Run Viewer")
("Print" "%p" TeX-run-command t t :help "Print the file")
("Queue" "%q" TeX-run-background nil t :help "View the printer queue"
:visible TeX-queue-command)
("File" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-dvips t
(plain-TeX-mode LaTeX-mode docTeX-mode AmSTeX-mode Texinfo-mode) :help
"Generate PostScript file")
("Dvips" "%(o?)dvips %d -o %f " TeX-run-dvips nil
(plain-TeX-mode LaTeX-mode docTeX-mode AmSTeX-mode Texinfo-mode) :help
"Convert DVI file to PostScript")
("Dvipdfmx" "dvipdfmx -o %(O?pdf) %d" TeX-run-dvipdfmx nil
(plain-TeX-mode LaTeX-mode docTeX-mode AmSTeX-mode Texinfo-mode) :help
"Convert DVI file to PDF with dvipdfmx")
("Ps2pdf" "ps2pdf %f %(O?pdf)" TeX-run-ps2pdf nil
(plain-TeX-mode LaTeX-mode docTeX-mode AmSTeX-mode Texinfo-mode) :help
"Convert PostScript file to PDF")
("Glossaries" "makeglossaries %(d-dir) %s" TeX-run-command nil
(plain-TeX-mode LaTeX-mode docTeX-mode AmSTeX-mode Texinfo-mode) :help
"Run makeglossaries to create glossary file")
("Index" "makeindex %(O?idx)" TeX-run-index nil
(plain-TeX-mode LaTeX-mode docTeX-mode AmSTeX-mode Texinfo-mode) :help
"Run makeindex to create index file")
("upMendex" "upmendex %(O?idx)" TeX-run-index t
(plain-TeX-mode LaTeX-mode docTeX-mode AmSTeX-mode Texinfo-mode) :help
"Run upmendex to create index file")
("Xindy" "texindy %s" TeX-run-command nil
(plain-TeX-mode LaTeX-mode docTeX-mode AmSTeX-mode Texinfo-mode) :help
"Run xindy to create index file")
("Check" "lacheck %s" TeX-run-compile nil (LaTeX-mode) :help
"Check LaTeX file for correctness")
("ChkTeX" "chktex -v6 %s" TeX-run-compile nil (LaTeX-mode) :help
"Check LaTeX file for common mistakes")
("Spell" "(TeX-ispell-document \"\")" TeX-run-function nil t :help
"Spell-check the document")
("Clean" "TeX-clean" TeX-run-function nil t :help
"Delete generated intermediate files")
("Clean All" "(TeX-clean t)" TeX-run-function nil t :help
"Delete generated intermediate and output files")
("Other" "" TeX-run-command t t :help "Run an arbitrary command"))
)