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14.0.3.2024-03-17; can't "describe-package 'auctex"

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From: Paul Nelson <ultrono <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-auctex <at> gnu.org
Subject: 14.0.3.2024-03-17; can't "describe-package 'auctex"
Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 18:24:25 +0200

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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 <at> 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 <at> 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 <at> 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

---

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"))
 )

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Message #8 received at 70961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Nelson <ultrono <at> gmail.com>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 70961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#70961: 14.0.3.2024-03-17; can't "describe-package 'auctex"
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 11:17:50 +0200

Paul Nelson <ultrono <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 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 <at> 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

Thanks, confirmed.  I wonder why we get this.  AFAICT, AUCTeX is
following the ELPA rules[1, 2]:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
*** Add a simple package as =<pkg-name>.el=.

The file needs to follow the usual coding conventions (most importantly start
with =";;; <file> --- <description> -*- lexical-binding: t -*-"=) and have a
=Version:= and =Maintainer:= pseudo-header (see the [[Format]] subsection
below). ...

** Format

Each package should follow the ELPA packaging conventions, but there are
some differences due to the way the deployment script creates the packages
and the web-pages from this source code:
- Multi-file packages put the package metadata in the main =<pkg-name>.el= file
  in the format used for single-file packages: the =<pkg-name>-pkg.el= file is
  auto-generated from it.
- Every package should have both a =Version:= /and/ a =Maintainer:=.
- The =Version:= must be acceptable to =version-to-list=.
- The =URL:= header can be used to specify the home page
  of the package, if it's maintained externally.
- A =News:= section (or "NEWS" file) can/should be used to list the
  user-visible changes of each version.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

auctex.el has everything in place; the only thing I can imagine is that
ELPA is not happy with

;; Maintainer: auctex-devel <at> gnu.org

@Stefan: Sorry for bothering you again, but can you please shed some
light on this?  Should Maintainer: look like Author:, e.g.

;; Author: J. R. Hacker <jrh <at> example.com>

?  I can change the current line to:

;; Maintainer: AUCTeX Maintenance Team <auctex-devel <at> gnu.org>

or something like that if that helps.

Best, Arash

Footnotes:
[1]  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/tree/README#n384
[2]  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/tree/README#n432

Message #11 received at 70961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 70961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Nelson <ultrono <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#70961: 14.0.3.2024-03-17; can't "describe-package 'auctex"
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 09:05:16 -0400

> auctex.el has everything in place; the only thing I can imagine is that
> ELPA is not happy with
>
> ;; Maintainer: auctex-devel <at> gnu.org

That should work fine.  The problem must be elsewhere.


        Stefan

Message #14 received at 70961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 70961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Nelson <ultrono <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#70961: 14.0.3.2024-03-17; can't "describe-package 'auctex"
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 16:48:45 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> That should work fine.  The problem must be elsewhere.

Thanks for your response.  Is that "elsewhere" inside package.el or
inside AUCTeX, I'm not sure where to look.

Best, Arash

Message #17 received at 70961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 70961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Nelson <ultrono <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#70961: 14.0.3.2024-03-17; can't "describe-package 'auctex"
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 10:52:20 -0400

>> That should work fine.  The problem must be elsewhere.
> Thanks for your response.  Is that "elsewhere" inside package.el or
> inside AUCTeX, I'm not sure where to look.

Could be in `describe-package`.  I fixed a bug in tht area not too
long ago.


        Stefan

Message #20 received at 70961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 70961 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Nelson <ultrono <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#70961: 14.0.3.2024-03-17; can't "describe-package 'auctex"
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 11:06:39 -0400

>>> That should work fine.  The problem must be elsewhere.
>> Thanks for your response.  Is that "elsewhere" inside package.el or
>> inside AUCTeX, I'm not sure where to look.
> Could be in `describe-package`.  I fixed a bug in tht area not too
> long ago.

And I just fixed a further bug in there (see bug#69712).


        Stefan

Message #25 received at 70961-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Arash Esbati <arash <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 70961-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Nelson <ultrono <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#70961: 14.0.3.2024-03-17; can't "describe-package 'auctex"
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 19:14:01 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> And I just fixed a further bug in there (see bug#69712).

Thanks for the quick fix; I can confirm that your change fixes the
issue.

@Paul: I presume it works for you too, therefore I'm closing this
report.  I think you can follow-up with bug#69712 if you still see the
issue.

Best, Arash

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