GNU bug report logs - #22440
25.1.50; package.el fails to install with package-check-signature t

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza <at> udel.edu>

Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:50:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: security

Found in version 25.1.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #60 received at 22440 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza <at> udel.edu>, 22440 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#22440: 25.1.50; package.el fails to install with
 package-check-signature t
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 23:11:50 +0000
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Just an unfortunate consequence of how macroexpand-let works. I've now
fixed them by changing those 2 symbols to a plain let.

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 7:05 PM Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> On 05/18/2016 02:09 PM, Artur Malabarba wrote:
> > Should now be fixed on the emacs-25 branch. Please test if it works
> > for you as well.
>
> When I build emacs-25 now, it issues new warnings like the following.
> What are these warnings symptoms of, and can the problem be avoided?
>
>
>    ELC      emacs-lisp/package.elc
>
> In package--check-signature:
> emacs-lisp/package.el:1248:36:Warning: reference to free variable ‘url’
> emacs-lisp/package.el:1248:36:Warning: reference to free variable ‘b-sym’
>
> In package--download-one-archive:
> emacs-lisp/package.el:1508:39:Warning: reference to free variable ‘url’
> emacs-lisp/package.el:1508:39:Warning: reference to free variable ‘b-sym’
>
> In package-install-from-archive:
> emacs-lisp/package.el:1806:36:Warning: reference to free variable ‘url’
> emacs-lisp/package.el:1806:36:Warning: reference to free variable ‘b-sym’
>
> In describe-package-1:
> emacs-lisp/package.el:2403:53:Warning: reference to free variable ‘url’
> emacs-lisp/package.el:2403:53:Warning: reference to free variable ‘b-sym’
>
>
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