bug#65752: 29.1; package-vc-install fails to install Helm package

[Philip Kaludercic]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Sean Whitton <spwhitton@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"?

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