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31.0.50; list-packages doesn't work if lisp-dir is used with use-package

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From: Aritro Sen <1.sen.aritro <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 31.0.50; list-packages doesn't work if lisp-dir is used with
 use-package
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 02:38:23 +0530

I am using the use-package macro to install treemacs like this:

(use-package treemacs
  :vc (treemacs :url "https://github.com/Alexander-Miller/treemacs"
        :branch "master"
        :lisp-dir "src/elisp/")
  :ensure t
  :config
  (compile-and-load-subdirs "treemacs" "src/extra"))

Anyways, it will install just fine. However, M-x list-packages will not
work anymore, showing /home/aritro/src/elisp directory not found. This
is because list-packages calls package-menu--generate, which in turn
calls package-menu--refresh, which calls
package-menu--print-info-simple, which in turn calls package-vc-commit,
wherein the problem lies. In package-vc-commit, the lisp-dir is not
expanded. Just below, package-vc--main-file does in fact correctly
expand it, so a simple patch like this seems to fix it, the solution
being directly copied from the package-vc--main-file function:

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package-vc.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package-vc.el
index 6642522d11e..68b85db4c46 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package-vc.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package-vc.el
@@ -220,8 +220,11 @@ package-vc-commit
   ;; directory (as is possible when dealing with git repositories).
   ;; This should be a fallback option.
   (cl-loop with dir = (let ((pkg-spec (package-vc--desc->spec pkg-desc)))
-                        (or (plist-get pkg-spec :lisp-dir)
-                            (package-desc-dir pkg-desc)))
+                        (expand-file-name
+                         (or (plist-get pkg-spec :lisp-dir) ".")
+                         (or (package-desc-dir pkg-desc)
+                             (expand-file-name (symbol-name 
(package-desc-name pkg-desc))
+                                               package-user-dir))))
            for file in (directory-files dir t "\\.el\\'" t)
            when (vc-working-revision file) return it
            finally return "unknown"))

In GNU Emacs 31.0.50 (build 11, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
3.24.51, cairo version 1.18.4) of 2025-11-21 built on debian
Repository revision: 918b9f04f422efb7b614a9f71b004523a39d7674
Repository branch: master
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux forky/sid

Configured using:
'configure --enable-autodepend --enable-link-time-optimization
--with-dbus --with-file-notification=inotify --with-imagemagick
--with-native-compilation=aot --with-pdumper=yes --with-pgtk
--with-small-ja-dic --with-sound=alsa --with-tree-sitter
--with-wide-int --with-x-toolkit=no --without-compress-install
--without-gpm --without-libsmack --without-selinux --without-xaw3d
--without-xdbe --without-xft --without-xim --without-xinput2
'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=native -Wall -Wl,-z,nodlopen -Wl,-z,noexecstack
-fhardened' 'CXXFLAGS=-O2 -march=native -Wall -Wl,-z,nodlopen
-Wl,-z,noexecstack -fhardened' 'TREE_SITTER_CFLAGS=-isystem
/home/aritro/.local/share/git-builds/emacs-build/treesitter-build/include'
'TREE_SITTER_LIBS=-L/home/aritro/.local/share/git-builds/emacs-build/treesitter-build/lib 

-ltree-sitter''

Configured features:
ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ
IMAGEMAGICK JPEG LCMS2 LIBOTF LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP
NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PGTK PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XIM GTK3 ZLIB

Important settings:
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
mlscroll-mode: t
ultra-scroll-mode: t
pixel-scroll-precision-mode: t
minions-mode: t
gc-maybe-mode: t
server-mode: t
lin-global-mode: t
pulsar-global-mode: t
pulsar-mode: t
global-colorful-mode: t
colorful-mode: t
global-hl-todo-mode: t
hl-todo-mode: t
diff-hl-flydiff-mode: t
global-diff-hl-mode: t
editorconfig-mode: t
vertico-multiform-mode: t
vertico-mouse-mode: t
nerd-icons-completion-mode: t
marginalia-mode: t
savehist-mode: t
recentf-mode: t
lsp-treemacs-sync-mode: t
eros-mode: t
sly-symbol-completion-mode: t
apheleia-global-mode: t
apheleia-mode: t
treemacs-filewatch-mode: t
treemacs-follow-mode: t
treemacs-git-mode: t
treemacs-fringe-indicator-mode: t
flyover-mode: t
global-flycheck-mode: t
flycheck-mode: t
global-corfu-mode: t
corfu-mode: t
vertico-mode: t
display-line-numbers-mode: t
hl-line-mode: t
display-fill-column-indicator-mode: t
override-global-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
global-eldoc-mode: t
eldoc-mode: t
show-paren-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
context-menu-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
minibuffer-nonselected-mode: t
minibuffer-regexp-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
indent-tabs-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
/home/aritro/.local/state/emacs/elpa/clojure-mode/clojure-mode-autoloads 
hides 
/home/aritro/.local/state/emacs/elpa/clojure-mode-20250527.840/clojure-mode-autoloads
/home/aritro/.local/state/emacs/elpa/clojure-mode/clojure-mode hides 
/home/aritro/.local/state/emacs/elpa/clojure-mode-20250527.840/clojure-mode
/home/aritro/.local/state/emacs/elpa/clojure-mode/clojure-mode-pkg hides 
/home/aritro/.local/state/emacs/elpa/clojure-mode-20250527.840/clojure-mode-pkg
/home/aritro/.local/state/emacs/elpa/dired-hacks/dired-hacks-utils hides 
/home/aritro/.local/state/emacs/elpa/dired-hacks-utils-20240629.1906/dired-hacks-utils

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