Joseph Turner <joseph@breatheoutbreathe.in> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Ok, do you have a few example repositories that we can use to test edge-cases?
>
> I first noticed this issue when attempting to build the docs for
> org-transclusion. Besides that, we could select a few package specs
> containing :make at random from
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/tree/elpa-packages ?

One issue I still notice in this case is that if the file doesn't exist,
the issue is raised by `insert-file-contents' which aborts the entire
installation.  Does checking the existence of the file, and continuing
on if this is not the case make sense: