GNU bug report logs - #16313
24.3; package-delete does not update package-alist

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: stephen_leake <at> stephe-leake.org

Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 12:39:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Bastien Guerry <bzg <at> altern.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 16313 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: bzg <at> altern.org
Subject: bug#16313: 24.3; package-delete does not update package-alist
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:08:36 -0500

Bastien Guerry wrote:

> Still, package-delete did not cleanly delete the package from
> package-alist, only its description.

_Should_ it remove the entire entry? It's not obvious to me, given eg
the way package-installed-p works.

> I pushed a fix to cleanly remove the package occurrence.

-        (delete pkg-desc (assq name package-alist)))
+       (delete (delete pkg-desc (assq name package-alist)) package-alist))

That doesn't work for the first item in the list.
Why not the more obvious

(setq package-alist (delete (assq name package-alist) package-alist))
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