Subject: 24.3; package-install js2-mode doesn't put a ' before the keywords list

From: Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:40:52 +0100

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M-x package-install RET js2-mode RET

gives

js2-mode-pkg.el:2:1:Warning: `"languages"' is a malformed function

after creating this js2-mode-pkg.el:

;; Generated package description from js2-mode.el
(define-package "js2-mode" "20140114" "Improved JavaScript editing mode" '((emacs "24.1")) :url "https://github.com/mooz/js2-mode/" :keywords ("languages" "javascript"))

which e.g. leads to errors on next emacs startup. Adding a ' before the
keywords list (and deleting the .elc) is a workaround. I don't see the
error in js2-mode.el that would cause this:

$ head -13 js2-mode.el
;;; js2-mode.el --- Improved JavaScript editing mode

;; Copyright (C) 2009, 2011-2014  Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Steve Yegge <[email-masked]>
;;         mooz <[email-masked]>
;;         Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
;; URL:  https://github.com/mooz/js2-mode/
;;       http://code.google.com/p/js2-mode/
;; Version: 20140114
;; Keywords: languages, javascript
;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "24.1"))

but in any case, 'package should probably handle this better.

In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw scroll bars)
 of 2013-08-15 on kiwiarch
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11403000
Configured using:
 `configure '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib'
 '--localstatedir=/var' '--with-x-toolkit=lucid' '--with-xft'
 '--without-gconf' '--without-gsettings' 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64
 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4'
 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro'
 'CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2''

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: nn_NO.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

-- 
Kevin Brubeck Unhammer

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