Bug#241333: policy mentions that changelogs should be utf-8; this is a bug
Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, 04 Jul 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Comments?
> Pretty much all of the tools that read debian/control assume that it is
> in UTF-8, including the BTS, so even though it isn't a mandate of
> policy, it's effectively mandated by the tools that actually use these
> files.
I assume you mean debian/changelog here.
>> Also, while we're looking at this, where are we on UTF-8 support in
>> debian/control? Is it now time to similarly require that all control
>> files be encoded in UTF-8? There are only 11 packages in the archive
>> with non-UTF-8 control files.
> Likewise for control.
I think it may be time to talk to the release time about making non-UTF-8
changelog or control files RC. Maybe we can finally put this transition
to bed for lenny (and upgrade Policy correspondingly to a must).
I'll mail debian-release.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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