Subject: bug#66115: [PATCH] Ensure that directory is expanded in package-vc-checkout

From: Joseph Turner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:14:02 -0700

Tags: patch

Tags: patch

This patch fixes a serious bug which caused package-vc-checkout to fail
entirely when its second argument `directory' was not expanded.

>From 75a6ec74ff5e31edc7592b68e7ad9d1ec26f515c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joseph Turner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:12:10 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure that directory is expanded in package-vc-checkout

* lisp/emacs-lisp/package-vc.el (package-vc-checkout)
---
 lisp/emacs-lisp/package-vc.el | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package-vc.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package-vc.el
index 29b540d86b8..47d8c996ff0 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package-vc.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package-vc.el
@@ -834,6 +834,7 @@ for the last released version of the package."
              (setf dir subdir)
            (user-error "Directory not empty: %S" (expand-file-name dir)))))
      (list desc dir (and current-prefix-arg :last-release))))
+  (setf directory (expand-file-name directory))
   (package-vc--archives-initialize)
   (let ((pkg-spec (or (package-vc--desc->spec pkg-desc)
                       (and-let* ((extras (package-desc-extras pkg-desc))
-- 
2.41.0