Bug#540985: marked as done (lintian: [policy] check debian/changelog for UTF8 encoding)
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and subject line Re: Bug#540985: lintian: [policy] check debian/changelog for UTF8 encoding
has caused the Debian Bug report #540985,
regarding lintian: [policy] check debian/changelog for UTF8 encoding
to be marked as done.
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.13
Severity: wishlist
Please add policy warning (error?) against debian/changelog for not
being in UTF8 encoding. E.g. foreign names in ISO-8859-1 appear
different if file is saved in UTF8.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.19.51.20090723-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.3.1 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.03-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.23 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.5-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.0-24 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.5-3 on-line manual pager
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
>
>> Please add policy warning (error?) against debian/changelog for not
>> being in UTF8 encoding. E.g. foreign names in ISO-8859-1 appear
>> different if file is saved in UTF8.
>
> Did you try this before filing a bug? Lintian has warned about this since
> 2004.
Indeed:
E: procmail-lib: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding at line 9
Please excuse, it must have been buried on build messages for me.
Jari
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