bug#81617: 30.2; [ELPA] make [PKGNAME].tar fails

Lin Jian via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Hi ELPA maintainers:

The [PKGNAME].tar target of make probably has a bug.  I cannot use it to
build my package which I prepare to add to NonGNU ELPA.

Here are steps to reproduce the bug using an existing package denote:

1. git clone --single-branch git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/elpa.git
2. cd elpa
3. make
4. make packages/denote
5. install bwrap (or disable sandbox by modifying elpa-config)
6. make denote.tar
7. see error:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
emacs --batch -Q -l admin/elpa-admin.el \
         -f elpaa-batch-pkg-spec-make-dependencies .pkg-descs.mk
emacs --batch -l /tmp/tmp.pIREVhEGXY/elpa/admin/elpa-admin.el	\
         -f elpaa-batch-make-one-tarball denote.tar
======== Building tarball denote.tar...
ELPATEXI=denote.texi


Build error for denote.tar: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
######## Build of package denote.tar FAILED!!
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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