bug#59676: 30.0.50; package-report-bug fails getting maintainer address

[Philip Kaludercic]

Eshel Yaron <me@eshelyaron.com> writes:

> 1. emacs -Q
> 2. M-x list-packages
> 3. Move point to over some package, e.g. Magit
> 4. M-x package-report-bug
> 5. See error:
>
> package-maintainers: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, ("Jonas 
> Bernoulli" . "jonas@bernoul.li")

Does the following fix it?

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
index 8d44fae30a..8e7c34da38 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
@@ -4549,7 +4549,7 @@ package-maintainers
       (user-error "Package `%s' has no explicit maintainer" name))
      ((and (not (progn
                   (require 'ietf-drums)
-                  (ietf-drums-parse-address maint)))
+                  (ietf-drums-parse-address (cdr maint))))
            (null no-error))
       (user-error "Package `%s' has no maintainer address" name))
      ((not (null maint))

> On another note, seems package-report-bug could also benefit from an
> autoload cookie, no?

I think that would be a good idea, but I don't know if it is too late
now that Emacs 29 has been cut.