On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 06:30:11PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 04:23:00PM +0100, Adam Borowski a écrit : > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:14:15PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > The debian/copyright was corrected as well: > > > lintian failed to detect non ASCII chars. > > > > Because they're perfectly fine. You're not supposed to mangle the names of > > copyright holders, etc. > > > > It should use UTF-8. I somehow can't seem to find a policy paragraph > > specifying this (an omission?), but at least common sense specifies that :p > > And in the particular case of this package, that uses the machine-readable > copyright format, it is indirectly mandated by the Policy: > > DEP 5: The syntax of the file is the same as for other Debian control files, > as specified in the Debian Policy Manual. See its section 5.1 for > details. > > Policy §5.1: All control files must be encoded in UTF-8.
DEP5 isn't mandatory. Before requesting this to be added to the policy, I wanted to check how many packages fail this requirement. There are 65, here's dd-list: Alexander Wirt <[email protected]> pytone Alexandre Fayolle <[email protected]> pyqonsole Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez <[email protected]> cycle empy Anders Hammarquist <[email protected]> sformat Andreas Barth <[email protected]> rp-pppoe Bill Allombert <[email protected]> gap-ctbllib gap-gdat Brian Nelson <[email protected]> aspell-is aspell-sk Carlo Segre <[email protected]> libdatetime-format-mail-perl (U) libmath-round-perl (U) Clint Byrum <[email protected]> mysql-5.5 (U) Damyan Ivanov <[email protected]> libdatetime-format-mail-perl (U) David Martínez Moreno <[email protected]> libmpeg3 linux-ntfs Debian CLI Applications Team <[email protected]> monodevelop Debian KDE Extras Team <[email protected]> dvr Debian MySQL Maintainers <[email protected]> mysql-5.5 Debian Perl Group <[email protected]> libdatetime-format-mail-perl libmath-round-perl Debian QA Group <[email protected]> lightspeed twisted-web2 Decklin Foster <[email protected]> yafc Dominic Hargreaves <[email protected]> libhtml-mason-psgihandler-perl Enrique Monge <[email protected]> wmtictactoe Eric Madesclair <[email protected]> le-dico-de-rene-cougnenc Esteban Manchado Velázquez <[email protected]> pica picalib Florian Hinzmann <[email protected]> libxml-dumper-perl Francois Gurin <[email protected]> wmlongrun Frederic Schutz <[email protected]> w3c-dtd-xhtml Free Ekanayaka <[email protected]> polymer (U) Georges Khaznadar <[email protected]> wims-extra GOTO Masanori <[email protected]> lha plum xfonts-kappa20 xfonts-mplus xfonts-shinonome gregor herrmann <[email protected]> libdatetime-format-mail-perl (U) Gregory Colpart (evolix) <[email protected]> php-file Gürkan Sengün <[email protected]> aclock.app Gürkan Sengün <[email protected]> aclock.app Hamish Moffatt <[email protected]> sortmail Itamar Almeida de Carvalho <[email protected]> libxml-dt-perl Ivan Kohler <[email protected]> libpod-simple-wiki-perl libtaint-util-perl Jaldhar H. Vyas <[email protected]> libdatetime-format-mail-perl (U) Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[email protected]> nat spellcast-doc vrrpd Jo Shields <[email protected]> monodevelop (U) Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <[email protected]> manpages-hu sidplay-base Lionel Elie Mamane <[email protected]> scsh-defaults Marcela Tiznado <[email protected]> cadubi Mark Purcell <[email protected]> dvr (U) Mathias Krause <[email protected]> polymer Mickael Profeta <[email protected]> tetex-frogg Mike Furr <[email protected]> wmressel Mike Markley <[email protected]> gkrellm-leds Mirco Bauer <[email protected]> monodevelop (U) Miriam Ruiz <[email protected]> cycle (U) Mohammed Adnène Trojette <[email protected]> ooo2dbk Monty Taylor <[email protected]> plywood Norbert Tretkowski <[email protected]> mysql-5.5 (U) OHURA Makoto <[email protected]> apt-show-source Pawel Wiecek <[email protected]> crack doc-linux-pl Pierre Machard <[email protected]> doc-linux-fr Python Applications Team <[email protected]> cycle (U) Richard Holland <[email protected]> libwww5.808-perl Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) <[email protected]> tmview Shane Wegner <[email protected]> dotconf Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[email protected]> dbix-easy-perl Steffen Moeller <[email protected]> libwww5.808-perl (U) Thomas Bläsing <[email protected]> python-libpcap Thomas Goirand <[email protected]> extplorer Víctor Pérez Pereira <[email protected]> perl-byacc Yu Guanghui <[email protected]> zh-autoconvert -- // If you believe in so-called "intellectual property", please immediately // cease using counterfeit alphabets. Instead, contact the nearest temple // of Amon, whose priests will provide you with scribal services for all // your writing needs, for Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory prices.
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