Re: Maintainer: field in .changes

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

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Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> schrieb:

> On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:07, Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> schrieb:
>> 
>> > * Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> [2004-01-20 11:36]:
>> >> You're breaking policy by doing that ;-)  policy only allows UTF-8
>> >> in debian/changelog and not in debian/control ... so if you were to
>> >
>> > Does policy prohibit UTF-8 in control anywhere?
>> 
>> zgrep -i -C3 utf /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz
>> 
>> yields only the recommendation for the changelog, and the respective
>> footnote. 
>> 
> Which says you can't use it in package control fields until dpkg has
> better support[0], iirc.

You're right, one point for you. What are the problems with dpkg and utf-8?

TIA, Frank
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Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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