[release-1.10] Manually backport #4025

[christiangnrd]

I'm investigating. Seems like appending : to JULIA_DEPOT_PATH hides the bug.

[IanButterworth]

Pkg is in the sysimage on 1.10. Using the development version is more complicated.. I might suggest backporting this without tests 🙈

[christiangnrd]

Pkg is in the sysimage on 1.10. Using the development version is more complicated.. I might suggest backporting this without tests 🙈

Hahaha after the amount of fixes it took me to get the main PR test right, that's a terrifying proposition.

The test should be valid now.

[christiangnrd]

Luckily the test fails even with the : on master so I didn't just add a minute to the 1.12 Pkg test suite 😅.

I think I should remove the test here. Now that I think about it, recompiling the whole library just to test a bug so obscure it's been in the language for 4.5 years might not be worth it.

Lmk what you think.

[IanButterworth]

Thanks!