GNU bug report logs - #65752
29.1; package-vc-install fails to install Helm package

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>

Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 09:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 29.1

Done: Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #48 received at 65752 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
Cc: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol <at> posteo.net>, 65752 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name>
Subject: Re: bug#65752: 29.1; package-vc-install fails to install Helm package
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:05:25 +0000
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Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Sean Whitton <spwhitton <at> spwhitton.name> writes:
>>
>>> 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'.
>>
>> I don't run into this bug, but I cannot enable anything since there
>> appears to be an implicit dependency on "async"?
>
> Ping?

Not sure to understand what you need/want here, perhaps you can develop?

Thanks.

-- 
Thierry
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