Subject: bug#39682: 26.3; Help window for list-packages disabled

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 12:53:17 -0500

Tim Johnson <[email-masked]> writes:

> Here is *Messages* and tabulated-list-get-id
>
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
> Importing package-keyring.gpg...done
> Package refresh done
> No package specified
> Quit
> #s(package-desc ace-window (0 9 0) "Quickly switch windows." ((avy (0
> 2 0))) single "gnu" nil ((:keywords "window" "location") (:authors
> ("Oleh Krehel" . "[email-masked]")) (:maintainer "Oleh Krehel"
> . "[email-masked]") (:url
> . "https://github.com/abo-abo/ace-window")) nil)

Hmm, that seems like it should be okay.  What about

    M-: (package-desc-p (tabulated-list-get-id)) RET

Also try (setq debug-on-message "No package specified") and then trigger
the error again.  Perhaps the resulting backtrace will give some hints
as to what is happening.