Re: Is lack of UTF support an RC bug? [was: Bug#386299: ekg2: Plugin/program compilation option mismatch]
Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> Who decided that we should just drop them all? After all generating a
> non-UTF locale and setting an environment variable isn't a very
> difficult workaround? I mean, when has lack of UTF support become an
> RC-bug? Charset support is not even mentioned in the policy, other than
> for debian/changelog.
There's quite a way from "not properly supporting UTF, possibly mangling
characters" to "needs workaround for most installs otherwise being
completely unusable with opaque error message". The latter doesn't
really sound like a releasable state to me.
I think looking at the issue with the criterium "the distribution better
not have a lot of packages with this type of fault or it's a completly
useless junk collection of packages" one can see a big red blinking RC
bug sign for this specific bug (as opposed to all UTF problems being RC).
Kind regards
T.
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