Re: Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding
- To: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
- Cc: 440420@bugs.debian.org, debian-i18n@lists.debian.org, Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Bug#440420: [PROPOSAL] Manual page encoding
- From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:39:20 -0800
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87d4q9sxlz.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
- In-reply-to: <20080128122935.GB11953@riva.ucam.org> (Colin Watson's message of "Mon\, 28 Jan 2008 12\:29\:35 +0000")
- References: <20070901120232.GB18492@riva.ucam.org> <46DC2A62.50402@debian.org> <20070903164719.GE6091@riva.ucam.org> <46DD1D67.6020906@debian.org> <20070904105256.GK6091@riva.ucam.org> <871w93cr9f.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> <20071231143748.GZ13328@riva.ucam.org> <20080128122935.GB11953@riva.ucam.org>
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> Christian Perrier seconded this here:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440420#100
>
> However, since later discussion indicated that we should drop the .UTF-8
> business, I think we can also drop it from the policy proposal. (Manual
> pages still shouldn't lie about their encoding if they install files
> there, but since this will not be the recommended default there is no
> reason to bloat policy with it.)
>
> Here's another updated version. Christian, are you still OK with this?
> I'm also looking for at least one more second for this proposal.
I have applied this patch to my Policy arch repository. Sorry about the
delay.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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