Many thanks for finding the solution!  I'll fix it soon.

Peter

Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In my last message I wrote:
> 
> > I am not so certain.  Tar-mode works fine with coding-system utf-8, also
> > for gzipped tarballs.  What might be the culprit is the message
> >
> > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> >
> > that appears (hidden, due to narrowing) in the *.deb-DATA buffer.  This may
> > indicate that Emacs sends the data.tar.gz in the .deb file with
> > coding-conversion to gzip, which will fail then.
> 
> Now I inspected the issue closer, and the problem seems to be the
> following: Although coding-system-for-read is bound to 'no-conversion in
> the function deb-view-process, that is not sufficient, since the *.deb-DATA
> buffer is created with
> 
> (call-process "ar" nil '(t t) nil "-p" debfile "data.tar.gz") and
> (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max) "gzip" t t nil "-cd"))
> 
> and these functions use default-process-coding-system rather than
> coding-system-for-read.  The former is set to '(mule-utf-8 . mule-utf-8) in
> my setup, and that caused the problem.  So the solution is to bind
> default-process-coding-system as well in deb-view-process, as in the
> following patch:
> 
> ---------------------------<-8------------------------------
> diff -u deb-view.el~ deb-view.el
> --- deb-view.el~      2005-10-25 01:02:32.000000000 +0200
> +++ deb-view.el       2005-12-21 19:17:25.000000000 +0100
> @@ -343,6 +343,7 @@
>                                (get-buffer-create data-buffer-name)))
>            (return-buffer (current-buffer))
>        (coding-system-for-read 'no-conversion)
> +      (default-process-coding-system '(no-conversion . no-conversion))
>        file-buffer
>            new-archive-format)
>       (message "deb-view processing deb file %s..." deb-view-buffer-name)
> ---------------------------<-8------------------------------
> 
> That seems to solve the problem, I have tested it with both emacs21 and
> emacs-snapshot.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Sven


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