Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.4 Severity: wishlist It would be nice if lintian could warn about the use of non-UTF-8 sequences in filenames contained in binary packages. There currently is a policy bug #701081 with the likely outcome of making this mandatory. Even if the policy bug report does not come to this conclusion, this behaviour is already a defacto standard only violated by aspell-is and jpilot at present (looking at sid main amd64). Since the vast majority of packages uses a small subset of printable ASCII, lintian could go even further and check for such a subset in a pedantic or experimental tag in addition.
Note that the non-UTF-8-ness currently cannot be easily measured, but the non-ASCII-ness can be using apt-file: LC_ALL=C zgrep '[^[:print:]]' /var/cache/apt/apt-file/*_Contents-*.gz Note that source packages may legitimately contain such sequences, for example as part of test cases. Given that we have little control over source packages, they should not be subject of such a check (at least not with warning level). Thanks for considering Helmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
