On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 19:29:27 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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 > 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> Seconded. regards, guillem
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