Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files
Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> writes:
>> I propose that all copyright files must use UTF-8 encoding. Lintian has
>> been emitting a warning for copyright files using obsolete national
>> encodings since 2007 and there are not many packages left:
>> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding.html
> Seconded.
> (Do I have enough clout here to second such proposals?)
Our current process document says that seconds have to be from Debian
Developers. IIRC, you are not (yet?) a Debian Developer, although please
correct me if I'm misremembering.
More relevantly at the moment, there is, as yet, no wording to formally
second. (I too agree with the proposal.) Here's a proposed patch:
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 1a61d4f..4fd60d9 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -9936,6 +9936,10 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
<file>README.Debian</file> or some other appropriate place.
</p>
+ <p>
+ All copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8.
+ </p>
+
<sect1 id="copyrightformat">
<heading>Machine-readable copyright information</heading>
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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