Subject: Re: bug#16441: 24.3; package-install js2-mode doesn't put a ' before the keywords list

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:19:28 +0200

Control: merge -1 16222

Kevin Brubeck Unhammer <[email-masked]> writes:

> 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:

This is a duplicate of http://debbugs.gnu.org/16222