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package-vc-from-checkout generates incorrect package summaries

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From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk <at> posteo.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 78222 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, JD Smith <jdtsmith <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#78222: package-vc-from-checkout generates incorrect package summaries
Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 15:29:56 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: JD Smith <jdtsmith <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 20:16:52 -0400
>> 
>> `package-vc-install-from-checkout' fails to generate correct package
>> summaries in the package files it generates, always using "No
>> description available."
>> 
>> The issue is as follows:
>> 
>>     • `package-vc-install-from-checkout' uses `package-desc-create'
>> to create a description structure based on the directory name of the
>> installed package.
>>     • This constructor includes a default `summary' slot of
>> `package--default-summary' ("No description available.")
>>     • During unpacking, `package-vc--generate-description-file' is
>> called with this pre-populated description structure.
>>     • It notices the existence of the (default)
>> `package-desc-summary', and simply skips reading the main package
>> file to derive the summary from its header line.
>> 
>> The solution may be to alter the test logic in
>> `package-vc--generate-description-file', or let-bind
>> `package--default-summary=nil' during structure creation.
>

What version of Emacs are you on?  Ever since bug#76065 we are testing
if the description matches the default description, in which we add a
special case for re-checking the package description if the current
description matches `package--default-summary'.

> Philip, any comments or suggestions?

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