Subject: Re: bug#49924: 28.0.50; `package-quickstart-refresh' fails for "long" (according to `print-length') `package-alist'

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2021 13:03:58 +0200

Pal Gloss <[email-masked]> writes:

> Following #49922, I was able to diagnose & fix an issue with
> `package-quickstart-refresh' when `print-length' is lower than
> `(length package-activated-list)'. 

Yup.  I've now pushed a similar fix for this to the trunk.

Thanks for analysing and identifying these two problems.  Perhaps we
should have a version of prin1-to-string that really did prin1 the
entire expression, because this problem comes up again and again...

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