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

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Message #36 received at 39682 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tim Johnson <tim <at> tj49.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 39682 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#39682: 26.3; Help window for list-packages disabled
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 12:16:41 -0900

Noam, I am not familiar with edebug.

Can you give me some more code examples?

On 2/20/20 11:22 AM, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> 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")
>
>
-- 
Tim
tj49.com

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