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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 17:09:10 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Ioannis Kappas <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 09:59:01 -0400
> 
> >> Please find below a patch to read package headers from a temporarily
> >> decoded buffer, while keeping the literal buffer (which will be used
> >> to install the package) intact.
> >
> > Stefan, any comments?
> 
> No particular comment from me, except: this is tricky enough that
> it would benefit from some regression tests.

Thanks.  Yes, that's a good idea.  Ioannis, could you perhaps add some
tests, both using existing packages and perhaps also some you concoct
just for testing purposes?