Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

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?)

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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>