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

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:22:23 -0500

Tim Johnson <[email-masked]> writes:

> (package-desc-p (tabulated-list-get-id))
> just returns t

>   message("No package specified")
>   describe-package(#s(package-desc :name ack :version (1 8) :summary...
>   package-menu-describe-package()

Hmm, very strange.  Could you step through describe-package with edebug,
and see how this condition is getting taken, even though package-desc-p
should apparently be returning t?

  (if (not (or (package-desc-p package) (and package (symbolp package))))
      (message "No package specified")