Re: [unicode-2] whitespace-auto-cleanup always replaces leading spaces with tabs

[martin rudalics]

> I'm using the emacs-unicode-2 branch. After a recent update of my
> working copy, whitespace-auto-cleanup replaces sequences of 8 spaces in
> leading whitespace with tabs. It does this even though indent-tabs-mode,
> whitespace-check-leading-whitespace, and
> whitespace-check-indent-whitespace are all nil.
>
> I am of the mind that having indent-tabs-mode set to nil should be
> sufficient to disable this behavior.

This should be handled by

(defcustom whitespace-check-indent-whitespace indent-tabs-mode
  "Flag to check indentation whitespace.  This is the global for the system.
It can be overriden by setting a buffer local variable
`whitespace-check-buffer-indent'."
  :type 'boolean
  :group 'whitespace)

Apparently it doesn't work for you.  Could you please give a more
detailed report using emacs -Q?