Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 12:18:37AM +0100, Julian Gilbey a écrit :
> 
> For consistency, I guess this should be /usr/games rather than
> /usr/games/.
 
> The final paragraph seems a little bit vague; would "should be
> restricted to ASCII when it is possible to do so" be clearer?  For if
> Unicode characters can be represented in ASCII, they almost always
> would be.  This alternative wording would suggest that using
> characters such as em-dashes or non-breaking spaces or the like is not
> good (though I doubt people would use them as filenames of packaged
> files!).

Thanks everybody for the feedback.  I am ready to commit the patch,
updated following Julian's suggestions.  But strictly speaking, I
need one more formal seconding statement for this :)

Cheers,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan