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encoding of the copyright file (was: Re: RFS: bibtool)



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


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