On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 04:50:36AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > 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. Seconded. Regards, Salvatore
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