GNU bug report logs - #22311
25.1.50; package.el misused (read-from-string) will potentially cause "elpa/archives/xxx/archive-contents" file malformed

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tao Fang <fangtao0901 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 15:35:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 25.1.50

Fixed in version 26.2

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Tao Fang <fangtao0901 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22311 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22311: 25.1.50; package.el misused (read-from-string) will potentially cause "elpa/archives/xxx/archive-contents" file malformed
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:57:33 -0400

tags 22311 fixed
close 22311 26.2
quit

Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> Simply replace (read-from-string) with (read) would resolve this, I think.
>
> Right, seems it's a regression in 25.1.  So I think the patch below
> should go to emacs-26.

Pushed.

[1: 6f6d525683]: 2018-06-26 19:56:04 -0400
  Detect a non-list package archive content properly (Bug#22311)
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=6f6d525683d5731d55fcd801a66b078bd6ba8369
This bug report was last modified 7 years and 27 days ago.

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