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

[Artur Malabarba]

I can do it.
Is the copyright cleared or do I mark this as a tiny change?

2015-04-13 21:45 GMT+01:00 Steve Purcell <steve@sanityinc.com>:
> On 13 Apr 2015, at 15:02, Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote:
>>
>>>> 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).
>
>
> Not sure at this stage who’s going to do this, and what the consensus is for 
> how it should be done. It’s probably quickest if someone who has an opinion 
> about the best fix just goes ahead and commits whatever variation of my patch 
> is considered optimal.