Bug#174982: [PROPOSAL]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

> > > | Right now, people are putting whatever random characters they feel like
> > > | in Debian changelogs;
> > > 
> > > I think we shouldn't use must just yet, since this will cause a lot of
> > > packages (you know how many?) to be instantly buggy.  If you change
> > > the ?must? to ?should?, I'll second the proposal.
> > 
> > Erm.. no, only those packages which comply with the latest 
> > version of policy, and it is pretty easy to add a  rule to 
> > change the encoding to utf-8 on the debian/rules install target.
> > 
> > Adding an example would be handy:
> > 
> >   To install changelog from upstream that is coded in ISO-8859-15, 
> >   the following rules in your debian/rules may help:
> > 
> > clean:
> > 	.
> > 	rm -f debian/ChangeLog-upstream
> 
> He's not talking about upstream changelogs.

Hmm.. I slightly misunderstood, but that doesn't much change the
problem.

The example would be:



install:
	.
	.
	iconv -f iso-8859-15 -t utf-8 < debian/changelog > debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/$(PACKAGE)/changelog.Debian
	gzip -9 debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/$(PACKAGE)/changelog.Debian



I guess dh_installchangelogs can be patched to allow specifying arbitrary
changelog, but probably the following would work (in most cases):

install:
	.
	.
	iconv -f iso-8859-15 -t utf-8 < debian/changelog > debian/$(PACKAGE).changelog
	dh_installchangelogs