Subject: Re: bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 May 2021 15:41:47 -0400

> I think it's wrong for package.el to try to decode these files.  It
> should deliver the files to the disk exactly as they are received
> through the wire.  And the only safe way of doing that is to treat
> these files as raw bytes.

I'm not sure what you're referring to here.

In the OP's case, i.e. `package-install-file` (which is a seldom used
functionality, not part of the "normal" `package-install`) the file doesn't go
through the wire: it's already "local" and we currently implement this
code on top of `package-install-from-buffer`, so it has to work
correctly with an already-decoded buffer.

        Stefan