From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 20:09:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83muje76wa.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mujog0ao.fsf@gmail.com> <835zqca15y.fsf@gnu.org> <83woir92vl.fsf@gnu.org> <83o93v83si.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="211589"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: rcopley@gmail.com, 35739@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@gmail.com To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 22 19:10:18 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hTUks-000sx2-Dk for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 19:10:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48024 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTUkr-0007h7-By for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 13:10:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:42165) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTUkd-0007ci-3u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 13:10:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTUkc-0004aP-4X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 13:10:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:57506) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTUkc-0004aH-0v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 13:10:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hTUkb-0001IF-OQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 13:10:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 17:10:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 35739 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 35739-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B35739.15585449834930 (code B ref 35739); Wed, 22 May 2019 17:10:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 35739) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 May 2019 17:09:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42817 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hTUkJ-0001HS-Fy for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 13:09:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55937) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hTUkG-0001HD-3l for 35739@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2019 13:09:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41433) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hTUkA-0004L5-Qr; Wed, 22 May 2019 13:09:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3565 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hTUkA-0004WN-4j; Wed, 22 May 2019 13:09:34 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 22 May 2019 12:20:01 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:159656 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: rcopley@gmail.com, 35739@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@gmail.com > Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 12:20:01 -0400 > > It solves the problem by refraining from decoding until we know > positively that it needs to happen. You refrain from decoding what? E.g., Lisp files must be in UTF-8, right? And what about the descriptions we show in lisp-packages? Or maybe I don't really understand why we need to decode _anything_, since we just download a .tar archive, right? > > I'm also mildly worried about the incompatible change in url-insert, > > which is a general-purpose function not limited to package.el and its > > signature verification. > > Yes, this part should definitely not be in emacs-26. I'm actually asking why it should be on master. > the change in url-insert only affects the case where the HTTP > headers returned by the server specify a particular "charset", which > is not the case when downloading .tar and .el files from > elpa.gnu.org AFAICT Why not? isn't that dangerous?