Bug#290270: debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting history

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

Quoting Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch):
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.6.1.0
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> This is not a formal proposal (I currently want to release sarge, not
> discuss policy changes), it's just a reminder that this should be
> dealt with somewhen.

I see at least one occasion where changelogs must be rewritten : when
they have been wrongly encoded with something else than UTF-8....of
course speaking about changelogs which contain non ASCII data..:)