Subject: bug#20231: 25.0.50; package.el mangles non-ascii content in downloaded archive-contents data

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:02:59 -0400

>> It is also slower.  Again, I have no idea if speed matters in this
>> case.
> I vote for the fastest approach. Now that package-refresh can be done
> in the background, any post-processing done in the foreground is all
> the more noticeable by the user.

Either way is fine by me.  Just one detail, tho: if you let-bind
coding-system-for-read, please only do it around the call to
insert-file-contents and not around the subsequent code (even if it's
short and seems not to matter).

        Stefan