On Thu, 29 Jan 2015, Ben Finney wrote: > Hmm. Could you transition the package, by providing in the next release: > > * /usr/share/dict/scowl/ > No data files, only the directories below. > > * /usr/share/dict/scowl/ISO-8859-1/ > The upstream data files in the upstream's choice, ISO-8859-1 > encoding. (If additional non-Unicode encodings are provided, > additional directories can provide those too.) > > * /usr/share/dict/scowl/UTF-8/ > The same data files, transcoded to UTF-8. > > This would signal the change, while allowing allow any dependent > programs to make an explicit choice about which encoding they want. > > Then, in some future release, the UTF-8 files can be the default, > while the non-Unicode encodings can continue to exist. > > Then, and only if this seems desirable, we can deprecate the > non-Unicode encodings; and finally, in some release after that, remove > any non-Unicode encodings. > > Does that sound feasible?
Yeah; the only issue is that this would require having two copies of the files. Since (AFAICT), there are no Debian dependencies on the wordlist, I think I'm just going to transition to UTF-8 early, and provide a package which has the files as iso8859-1 for a release with a NEWS item indicating that if people need the files, they should either adapt to UTF-8, or install the ISO8859-1 package. I'll also implore them if they are using the ISO8859-1 package to contact me if they expect to need it beyond the release of stretch. In buster, I'll just stop building the ISO8859-1 package. All of this needs to be communicated with upstream, though; I should get on that. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Something the junk advertisers don't seem to understand: we live in an information super-saturated world. If I don't want to buy something, no amount of shouting or propagandizing will budge me; all it will do is get me annoyed. On the other hand, if I have a need for your product, I can seek it out in an eyeblink. -- Charles Stross "Toast: A Con Report" in _Toast_ p136 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
