Bug#241333: policy mentions that changelogs should be utf-8; this is a bug
package: debian-policy
version: 3.6.0
<dpkg hat on>
Policy 3.6.0 included this in it's changelog:
* [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
closes: Bug#174982
This is not supported by any tool in debian. Control files are ascii, 7-bit,
period. And, when generating the .changes for an upload, the changelog is
included, this means the changelog *must* be 7-bit ascii. Period.
Please, remove this from policy.
<dpkg hat off>
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