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29.1; package-vc-install fails to install Helm package

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From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>, 65752 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65752: 29.1; package-vc-install fails to install Helm package
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:20:28 +0800

Hello,

On Sat 09 Sep 2023 at 08:55am GMT, Thierry Volpiatto wrote:

> I don't know, I am not able to reproduce now, I have always error:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Empty checkout for helm-core")
>   signal(error ("Empty checkout for helm-core"))
>   error("Empty checkout for %s" helm-core)
>   package-vc--unpack(#s(package-desc :name helm-core :version nil :summary "No
> description available." :reqs nil :kind vc :archive nil :dir
> "/home/thierry/.emacs.d/elpa/helm-core/" :extras nil :signed nil) (:url
> "https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm.git" :main-file "helm-core.el") nil)
>   package-vc-install((helm-core :url "https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm.git"
> :main-file "helm-core.el"))
>   (progn (package-vc-install '(helm-core :url
> "https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm.git" :main-file "helm-core.el")))
>   eval((progn (package-vc-install '(helm-core :url
> "https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm.git" :main-file "helm-core.el"))) t)
>   elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   eval-last-sexp(nil)
>   funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
>   call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
>   command-execute(eval-last-sexp)

Thierry, can you still reproduce this error?

If not, I think we should close this as 'wontfix'.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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