Adrián is breaking `describe-package-1`

[port19x]

When trying to click on exwm or xelb in the package list (after running package-list-packages) I get the following error:

describe-package-1: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, ("Adrián Medraño Calvo" . "adrian@medranocalvo.com")

That's pretty funny. Not sure what you can do about it

[medranocalvo]

This is getting personal ;-).

Seems to have been fixed some months ago: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/73cb931e5bab1b956f0569cd542468cfa7f4c9a7

A simple solution would be listing a single maintainer (one of @Stebalien or @minad) and keeping the others in the Author: or a different field (Also-Maintainers:).

[port19x]

Are you sure this is the multiple maintainers issue and not perhaps caused by emacs struggling with unicode? For clarification, I'm using emacs 29.4 with the latest exwm and xelb from elpa-devel.

I'll check with emacs master just to be sure

[port19x]

Yep, you're right. It works with emacs 31, and probably emacs 30 as well

[medranocalvo]

Reopening, we should fix this: users should be able to see the description of the package.

@port19x: thank you for reporting and checking Emacs 29 vs Emacs 31.

[minad]

This issue is also present in many other (also more popular) packages with multiple maintainers. I consider the issue wontfix from our side. The impact of this package.el bug is rather small, it only presents itself when showing the package information and nowhere else, only on Emacs 29 and older. Reducing the maintainer header to a single maintainer has downsides, e.g., the other maintainers won't get release notification mails from ELPA builder anymore.

[medranocalvo]

@minad, I defer to your judgement here. Thank you.