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

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

tag 701081 pending
thanks

Le Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 08:36:15AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> 
> >       <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>
> > 
> >         <p>
> >           The name of the files and directories installed by binary packages
> >           outside the system PATH must be encoded in UTF-8 and should be
> >           restricted to ASCII when they can be represented in that character
> >           set.
> >         </p>
> >       </sec>
 
> Unless there are further objections, I will go ahead with the wording above
> (or with the parenthesis turned in a footnote).

Hello everybody,

I pushed it as it is.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan