GNU bug report logs - #39682
describe-package disabled by help-fns+.elc compiled in older Emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tim Johnson <tim <at> tj49.com>

Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 23:05:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 26.3

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: Tim Johnson <tim <at> tj49.com>
Cc: 39682 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: bug#39682: 26.3; Help window for list-packages disabled
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:22:23 -0500

Tim Johnson <tim <at> tj49.com> 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")
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