Bug#241333: policy mentions that changelogs should be utf-8; this is a bug
Quoting Adam Heath (doogie@debian.org):
> 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.
I find a bit surprising that this bug emerges now....while Debian
Installer packages, for instance, use UTF-8 encoded changelogs for
months. As far as I know, Debian Installer builds, propagates and even
works.....packages are installed properly even when their changelogs
contain the names of these silly morons wearing names that can't be
written properly using us-ascii....
So, what is the exact rationale of this, except maybe a pre-April's
fool troll?
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