On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 06:30:11PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 04:23:00PM +0100, Adam Borowski a écrit : > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:14:15PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > The debian/copyright was corrected as well: > > > lintian failed to detect non ASCII chars. > > > > Because they're perfectly fine. You're not supposed to mangle the names of > > copyright holders, etc. > > > > It should use UTF-8. I somehow can't seem to find a policy paragraph > > specifying this (an omission?), but at least common sense specifies that :p > > And in the particular case of this package, that uses the machine-readable > copyright format, it is indirectly mandated by the Policy: > > DEP 5: The syntax of the file is the same as for other Debian control files, > as specified in the Debian Policy Manual. See its section 5.1 for details. > > Policy §5.1: All control files must be encoded in UTF-8. DEP5 isn't mandatory. Before requesting this to be added to the policy, I wanted to check how many packages fail this requirement. There are 65, here's dd-list: Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> pytone Alexandre Fayolle <afayolle@debian.org> pyqonsole Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez <ana@debian.org> cycle empy Anders Hammarquist <iko@debian.org> sformat Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> rp-pppoe Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> gap-ctbllib gap-gdat Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> aspell-is aspell-sk Carlo Segre <segre@debian.org> libdatetime-format-mail-perl (U) libmath-round-perl (U) Clint Byrum <clint@ubuntu.com> mysql-5.5 (U) Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org> libdatetime-format-mail-perl (U) David Martínez Moreno <ender@debian.org> libmpeg3 linux-ntfs Debian CLI Applications Team <pkg-cli-apps-team@lists.alioth.debian.org> monodevelop Debian KDE Extras Team <pkg-kde-extras@lists.alioth.debian.org> dvr Debian MySQL Maintainers <pkg-mysql-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org> mysql-5.5 Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org> libdatetime-format-mail-perl libmath-round-perl Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org> lightspeed twisted-web2 Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com> yafc Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> libhtml-mason-psgihandler-perl Enrique Monge <emonge@debian.org.sv> wmtictactoe Eric Madesclair <eric-m@wanadoo.fr> le-dico-de-rene-cougnenc Esteban Manchado Velázquez <zoso@debian.org> pica picalib Florian Hinzmann <fh@debian.org> libxml-dumper-perl Francois Gurin <matrix@debian.org> wmlongrun Frederic Schutz <schutz@mathgen.ch> w3c-dtd-xhtml Free Ekanayaka <freee@debian.org> polymer (U) Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@ofset.org> wims-extra GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.org> lha plum xfonts-kappa20 xfonts-mplus xfonts-shinonome gregor herrmann <gregor+debian@comodo.priv.at> libdatetime-format-mail-perl (U) Gregory Colpart (evolix) <reg@evolix.fr> php-file Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> aclock.app Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch> aclock.app Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> sortmail Itamar Almeida de Carvalho <itamar@oktiva.com.br> libxml-dt-perl Ivan Kohler <ivan-debian@420.am> libpod-simple-wiki-perl libtaint-util-perl Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org> libdatetime-format-mail-perl (U) Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@computer.org> nat spellcast-doc vrrpd Jo Shields <directhex@apebox.org> monodevelop (U) Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.hu> manpages-hu sidplay-base Lionel Elie Mamane <lmamane@debian.org> scsh-defaults Marcela Tiznado <mlt@debian.org> cadubi Mark Purcell <msp@debian.org> dvr (U) Mathias Krause <mkrause@informatik.tu-cottbus.de> polymer Mickael Profeta <profeta@debian.org> tetex-frogg Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org> wmressel Mike Markley <mike@markley.org> gkrellm-leds Mirco Bauer <meebey@debian.org> monodevelop (U) Miriam Ruiz <little_miry@yahoo.es> cycle (U) Mohammed Adnène Trojette <adn+deb@diwi.org> ooo2dbk Monty Taylor <mordred@inaugust.com> plywood Norbert Tretkowski <norbert@tretkowski.de> mysql-5.5 (U) OHURA Makoto <ohura@debian.org> apt-show-source Pawel Wiecek <coven@debian.org> crack doc-linux-pl Pierre Machard <pmachard@debian.org> doc-linux-fr Python Applications Team <python-apps-team@lists.alioth.debian.org> cycle (U) Richard Holland <holland@eaglegenomics.com> libwww5.808-perl Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) <sam+deb@zoy.org> tmview Shane Wegner <shane@debian.org> dotconf Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de> dbix-easy-perl Steffen Moeller <moeller@debian.org> libwww5.808-perl (U) Thomas Bläsing <thomasbl@pool.math.tu-berlin.de> python-libpcap Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> extplorer Víctor Pérez Pereira <vperez@debianvenezuela.org> perl-byacc Yu Guanghui <ygh@debian.org> zh-autoconvert -- // If you believe in so-called "intellectual property", please immediately // cease using counterfeit alphabets. Instead, contact the nearest temple // of Amon, whose priests will provide you with scribal services for all // your writing needs, for Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory prices.
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