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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Steve Purcell <steve@sanityinc.com>
Cc: 26490@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26490: 25.1; package-buffer-info is incorrectly case-insensitive
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 10:31:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pogfh2di.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m260i7q0sg.fsf@sanityinc.com> (message from Steve Purcell on Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:44:24 +1200)

> From: Steve Purcell <steve@sanityinc.com>
> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:44:24 +1200
> 
> `package-buffer-info' looks for an "filename.el ends here" comment line,
> where "filename.el" matches that provided on the first line of the
> file. However, it does not set `case-fold-search' to nil explicitly, and
> so will happily allow "FiLeNaMe.EL" in the trailing line.
> 
> I rely on this function in package-lint to detect certain issues with
> packaging, and noticed this failure there. I can work around it by
> unsetting `case-fold-search', but this seems the wrong fix.

Why do you think it would be wrong for you in your special use case to
bind case-fold-search to nil?  I think it's exactly the right
solution.

> A simple patch is attached.

What about Emacs running on case-insensitive filesystems?  What will
your patch do in that case?

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-14  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-14  0:44 bug#26490: 25.1; package-buffer-info is incorrectly case-insensitive Steve Purcell
2017-04-14  7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-04-14  9:12   ` Steve Purcell
2017-04-14 20:29 ` Glenn Morris
2017-04-14 23:02   ` Steve Purcell
2019-08-24  5:57 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-08-24  6:35   ` Steve Purcell
2019-09-28 10:55     ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-01 23:54       ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-10-04 12:48         ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-20 14:16       ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-21 16:05         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-02  0:31           ` Stefan Kangas

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