From: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 35739@debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 16:12:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPM58ojKzzcjp84oYC2piinKrzxxwOvgr5sx3EAxjZL-tJoEig@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8336lfaii7.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Wed, 15 May 2019, 15:40 Eli Zaretskii, <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 07:46:12 +0100
> > Cc: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>, 35739@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > I don't see how disabling decoding could make sense, can you explain?
> >
> > Not in detail, it's not an area of expertise of mine. We call
> > (decode-coding-region (point-min) (point-max) 'undecided) on the
> > payload of "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/archive-contents",
> > which is raw text. The resulting buffer's buffer-file-coding-
> > system is iso-latin-1-dos.
> >
> >
> > What does this code do on GNU/Linux?
> >
> > The same. The resulting coding system is iso-latin-1-unix.
>
> That URL seems to bring ASCII text. Are you saying that GPG produces
> a wrong signature because EOL format is significant for it? (Please
> forgive silly questions about GPG: I seldom if ever use it.)
>
Getting the signature involves applying a hash function to the bytes
in question. It's desirable that two different byte sequences give rise
to two different signatures, even if the difference is a carriage return.
In any case, if we don't want EOL conversion, we should bind
> inhibit-eol-conversion to a non-nil value, and change nothing else.
> But this should not be done in url-insert-buffer-contents, it should
> be done in package.el, because the former is a general utility and not
> necessarily needs to inhibit EOL conversion for all of its callers.
>
Of course. I was confirming Noam's hunch, not suggesting a change.
Sorry that wasn't clear.
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-14 21:25 bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA Richard Copley
2019-05-14 21:37 ` bug#35739: Acknowledgement (Bad signature from GNU ELPA) Richard Copley
2019-05-14 22:04 ` bug#35739: Bad signature from GNU ELPA Noam Postavsky
2019-05-14 22:26 ` Richard Copley
2019-05-14 22:42 ` Richard Copley
2019-05-15 2:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-15 7:13 ` Richard Copley
2019-05-15 14:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-15 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-18 22:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-22 5:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-22 16:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-22 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-22 19:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-23 3:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-23 4:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-23 4:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-23 12:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-23 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-24 14:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-24 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-24 19:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-24 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-24 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-25 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-25 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-25 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-15 2:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-15 6:46 ` Richard Copley
2019-05-15 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-15 15:12 ` Richard Copley [this message]
2019-05-29 18:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-29 19:11 ` Richard Copley
2019-05-29 20:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-05-29 20:50 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-30 2:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-31 4:54 ` Stefan Monnier
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