Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> 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>
This change has now been applied for the next release.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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