Bug#930880: Local variables don't work

[David Bremner <david@tethera.net>]

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

Control: severity -1 minor

> Package: elpa-debian-el
> Version: 37.8
> File: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa-src/debian-el-37/apt-sources.el
>
> Don't disable local variables set in files please.
>
> # cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jidanni.list
> deb http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
> deb http://opensource.nchc.org.tw/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
>
> # Local Variables:
> # compile-command: "perl -nwle 's!//\K[a-z.]+tw!ftp.tw.debian.org! && print;' jidanni.list | tee temp.list"
> # End:

I suppose it is technically a bug, since the (ancient) documentation
suggests using local variables.

To be honest I'm not sure supporting local variables in
/etc/apt/sources.list is a good idea. What happens when someone edit's
the file as root?

As a workaround the can always do something like M-:
(hack-local-variables) <return>; or some automation of that.