On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:32:13PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > reassign 142164 general > thanks > > Hi, > > Just because a topic has been discussed on the policy > discussion list is not reason enough to assign the bug to > policy.
Note that bug has been reassigned to the policy in 2003. Spam closed it, and it was just reopened. > This has nothing to do with creating a package, and certainly > not the place of policy to lead out by mandating stuff. Again, this > problem needs to be worked out abd put into effect by the bits that > put the Package ile together, and once we have a working solution, we > can start examing the bits of policy that may need to be changed for > the solution. I agree that the policy shouldn't mandate that the Packages file should be encoded in UTF-8. But I think it should say the the control and changelog files are, and I believe that is in the scope of the policy. This would of course have as side effect that the Packages file ends up as UTF-8 too. Note it says that is is "recommended" to encode the changelog in UTF-8 (C.2.2), it does not say any such thing about the control file. I think we should say that both should be encoded in UTF-8, or maybe a must. But we can change that to a must at a later date. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
