Package: dpkg-dev-el
Version: 24.10-1
Severity: wishlist

It'd be nice if emacs defaulted to utf-8 for debian changelog files,
perhaps with this in 50dpkg-dev-el.el,

    (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "/changelog\\.Debian\\'" 'utf-8)
    (modify-coding-system-alist 'file "/debian/changelog\\'" 'utf-8)

Policy (version 3.6.2.1 part C.2.2) recommends utf8, and lintian
(version 1.23.8) gives an error
debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding if it sees
non-utf8.


Lintian has an error for the control file likewise,
debian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding, so maybe that
should similarly default to utf8 (though I don't spot a mention in
policy about that).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_AU)

Versions of packages dpkg-dev-el depends on:
ii  debian-el                     24.10-1    Emacs helpers specific to Debian u
ii  emacs21 [emacsen]             21.4a-1    The GNU Emacs editor

Versions of packages dpkg-dev-el recommends:
ii  wget                          1.10-1     retrieves files from the web

-- no debconf information


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