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

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 08:20:15PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 10:39:19AM -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit :
> > On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > I think we should require UTF-8 as the character encoding for file
> > > names and fix the non-UTF-8 file names in the archive currently.
> > > None of the other courses of action really make any sense to me.
> > 
> > I think we should also forbid the use of non ASCII file names in PATH
> > and recommend that ASCII file names be used where possible, but I also
> > agree that where ASCII cannot serve, only UTF-8 should be used.
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Here is a somewhat clumsy proposition.
> 
>       <sec id="filenames">
>         <heading>File names</heading>
> 
>         <p>
>           The name of the files installed by binary packages in the system PATH 
>           (namely <tt>/bin</tt>, <tt>/sbin</tt>, <tt>/usr/bin</tt>,
>           <tt>/usr/sbin</tt> and <tt>/usr/games/</tt>) must be encoded in
>           ASCII.
>         </p>

I am not sure I like the idea of indirectly defining the system PATH in the 
'File names' section. If we want policy to define the system PATH, we should do
it in 10.1, I think.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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