Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> writes:
>> I propose that all copyright files must use UTF-8 encoding. Lintian has >> been emitting a warning for copyright files using obsolete national >> encodings since 2007 and there are not many packages left: >> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding.html > Seconded. > (Do I have enough clout here to second such proposals?) Our current process document says that seconds have to be from Debian Developers. IIRC, you are not (yet?) a Debian Developer, although please correct me if I'm misremembering. More relevantly at the moment, there is, as yet, no wording to formally second. (I too agree with the proposal.) Here's a proposed patch: diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 1a61d4f..4fd60d9 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -9936,6 +9936,10 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY <file>README.Debian</file> or some other appropriate place. </p> + <p> + All copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8. + </p> + <sect1 id="copyrightformat"> <heading>Machine-readable copyright information</heading> -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
