GNU bug report logs - #20231
25.0.50; package.el mangles non-ascii content in downloaded archive-contents data

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Steve Purcell <steve <at> sanityinc.com>

Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 20010

Found in versions 24.4, 25.0.50

Done: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: steve <at> sanityinc.com, Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>, 20231 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20231: 25.0.50; package.el mangles non-ascii content in downloaded archive-contents data
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 13:31:22 +0100

>>       I have no example at hand of how such processing may be
>>       triggered in practice, but avoiding it altogether seems to me
>>       like a saner approach.
>
> 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.
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