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

[Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Bill Allombert wrote:

> 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.

Then change this bug into changing policy saying changelog and control *must*
be 7-bit ascii.