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

Lin Jian <[email protected]> writes:

> 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:
>
> 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!!

Hi,

does executing "make fetch/dentote" before "make denote.tar" change
anything?