bug#40148: 26.3; Custom package header checked out from GIT in Windows will not parse

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
> Cc: Michael Angelozzi <mangelozzi@gmail.com>,  40148@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 10:25:11 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > It may be the case that package.el should be more tolerant in this
> > case, but that's just the tip of an iceberg, because there are files
> > out there where LF to CR-LF conversions are a no-no (just one example:
> > Unix shell scripts).  Just say no to this "feature", and Bob's your
> > uncle.
> 
> The problem happens without git conversion as well (because Emacs
> defaults to "dos" encoding on windows-nt systems):

You are saying that creating a package (or a new file in a package)
should leave the EOL format of the Lisp files at "dos", and distribute
the package's files like that via the elpa's?