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Package: perl
Severity: important
Blocks: #453954
One of the release goals for Lenny [1] is to make sure that debian/control and
debian/copyright are encoded in UTF-8 rather than in local encodings.
According to the lintian checks at [2] and [3], your package does not comply
with this goal yet, and uses a different encoding for debian/changelog
To fix this, simply filter the file through "iconv -f original_encoding -t
utf8".
This mail is part of a mass bug filing to get all these bugs fixed.
Best regards,
Bas.
[1] http://release.debian.org/lenny-goals.txt
[2]
http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tdebian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding.html
[3]
http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tdebian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding.html
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On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:13:59AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
>Hmm, that's annoying. I did check a few of the lintian errors to make
>sure the check was correct, but I didn't check all of them.
>
>Upon investigating, it seems that lintian checks
>/usr/share/doc/perl/changelog.gz, and that file indeed has non-utf8
>chars at line 331. As this is an upstream changelog, I don't think
>Liantian should even check that file.
Ah, perl has an interesting setup of /usr/share/doc/*, which while
technically correct does tend to screw with lintian a bit. I should
have looked further.
Specifically, changelog.Debian.gz and changelog.gz are split across
perl-base and perl respectively with some symlinks.
Lintian probably looks for changelog.Debian.gz, and falls back to
changelog.gz (as would exist in a native package) which is what all that
it finds in the perl package.
>I can't find the corresponding code in Lintian that selects which
>changelog to check, but it indeed seems to be a bug in lintian.
While this could perhaps be fixed, doing so would either require
packaging changes for the sake of suppressing a false positive, or
non-trivial changes to lintian to have more knowledge of a group of
packages.
--bod
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