Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

2012-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > 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

Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

2012-03-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On 03/03/12 03:29, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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 > README.Debian or some other appropriate place. > > > + > + All copyright

Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

2012-03-02 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 04:50:36AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 19:29:27 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Ben Finney writes: > > > Jakub Wilk writes: > > > > >> I propose that all copyright files must use UTF-8 encoding. Lintian has > > >> been emitting a warning for copyrig

Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

2012-03-02 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 19:29:27 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ben Finney writes: > > Jakub Wilk 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 no

Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

2012-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > Jakub Wilk 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-copyri

Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

2012-03-02 Thread Ben Finney
Jakub Wilk 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-na

Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

2012-03-02 Thread Jakub Wilk
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist 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