Bug#241333: policy mentions that changelogs should be utf-8; this is a bug

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 04:02:52PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> <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.

I hope you realise removing that item from policy will not suddenly lead to
policy mandating the changelog to be 7-bit ascii.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here.