bug#8469: 24.0.50; package.el cannot handle long package names

[Chong Yidong]

emacs18@gmail.com, Richard Kim <emacs18@gmail.com> writes:

> package.el was recently changed to make use of tabulated-list.el.
> This seems to be causing problems when a package name is too long.
> The threshold seems to be some length between 15 and 19 characters.
>
> To see the problem, start emacs with -q option, then execute the
> following code:
>
>     (require 'package)
>     (custom-set-variables
>      '(package-archives '(("tromey" . "http://tromey.com/elpa/";))))
>     (package-list-packages)
>
> This results in the stack trace shown below where the problem is with
> a package named "compilation-recenter-end" which has 24 characters long.

I think this was fixed in Leo's 2011-04-10 change; at least, I can't
reproduce this with latest trunk.