Bug#453954: general: Lenny release goal: UTF-8 debian/changelog and debian/control

[Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>]

Package: general
Severity: important

This bug is to track progress on the Lenny release goal "UTF-8
debian/changelog and debian/control":

* UTF-8 debian/changelog and debian/control
  Advocate: Russ Allbery
  Release-Team-Contact: ??
  Description: Fix all remaining debian/changelog and debian/control
   files which don't use UTF-8. These are easily found by lintian via
   debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding and
   debian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding.
  Bug-Tag: utf8-control
  State: confirmed

(See [1])


I will file individual bugs against all packages that are affected (see [2] and
[3]) and set them to block this bug.


[1] http://release.debian.org/lenny-goals.txt
[2] http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tdebian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding.html 
[3] http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tdebian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.8 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash