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[w32] Bad signature from GNU ELPA for archive-contents

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35739 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 16:07:10 -0400

>> > Not in detail, it's not an area of expertise of mine. We call
>> > (decode-coding-region (point-min) (point-max) 'undecided) on the
>> > payload of "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/archive-contents",
>> > which is raw text. The resulting buffer's buffer-file-coding-
>> > system is iso-latin-1-dos.
>>
>> Indeed, it seems that url-insert-file-contents sets
>> buffer-file-coding-system.  Maybe we can use that in the emacs-26
>> branch.  Can you try the emacs-26 code with the patch below to see if it
>> fixes the current problem?
>>
>
> Yes, it seems to. At least, there's no error from [M-x
> package-list-packages] in emacs -Q.

Thanks Richard for promptly testing it.

Noam, can you confirm that you can also still reproduce the problem in
`emacs-26` and that my patch fixes it when you try it?

Eli, do you think this is safe enough for the `emacs-26` branch?


        Stefan

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