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Re: changelog in utf-8 conflicts with maintainer in control



On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:14:33PM +0200, Celso Gonz?lez wrote:
> I have a problem with debian policy 3.6.0
> 
> One of the news of this version is that changelog _should_ be in utf-8
> In my case the changelog should not be in utf-8 :)
> 
> I have iconv'ed my changelog to be fully utf-8, but my name has a 
> "strange character" that gets converted 
> 
> So when the uploader checks the name of the Maintainer in the control 
> file (not utf-8) with the name in the changelog says that are different, 
> and results in a NMU

Why not convert your name in the control file as well?

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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