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 <formo...@debian.org> pytone Alexandre Fayolle <afayo...@debian.org> pyqonsole Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez <a...@debian.org> cycle empy Anders Hammarquist <i...@debian.org> sformat Andreas Barth <a...@not.so.argh.org> rp-pppoe Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> gap-ctbllib gap-gdat Brian Nelson <p...@debian.org> aspell-is aspell-sk Carlo Segre <se...@debian.org> libdatetime-format-mail-perl (U) libmath-round-perl (U) Clint Byrum <cl...@ubuntu.com> mysql-5.5 (U) Damyan Ivanov <d...@debian.org> libdatetime-format-mail-perl (U) David Martínez Moreno <en...@debian.org> libmpeg3 linux-ntfs Debian CLI Applications Team <pkg-cli-apps-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org> monodevelop Debian KDE Extras Team <pkg-kde-ext...@lists.alioth.debian.org> dvr Debian MySQL Maintainers <pkg-mysql-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org> mysql-5.5 Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> libdatetime-format-mail-perl libmath-round-perl Debian QA Group <packa...@qa.debian.org> lightspeed twisted-web2 Decklin Foster <deck...@red-bean.com> yafc Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li> libhtml-mason-psgihandler-perl Enrique Monge <emo...@debian.org.sv> wmtictactoe Eric Madesclair <eri...@wanadoo.fr> le-dico-de-rene-cougnenc Esteban Manchado Velázquez <z...@debian.org> pica picalib Florian Hinzmann <f...@debian.org> libxml-dumper-perl Francois Gurin <mat...@debian.org> wmlongrun Frederic Schutz <sch...@mathgen.ch> w3c-dtd-xhtml Free Ekanayaka <fr...@debian.org> polymer (U) Georges Khaznadar <georg...@ofset.org> wims-extra GOTO Masanori <go...@debian.org> lha plum xfonts-kappa20 xfonts-mplus xfonts-shinonome gregor herrmann <gregor+deb...@comodo.priv.at> libdatetime-format-mail-perl (U) Gregory Colpart (evolix) <r...@evolix.fr> php-file Gürkan Sengün <gur...@linuks.mine.nu> aclock.app Gürkan Sengün <gur...@phys.ethz.ch> aclock.app Hamish Moffatt <ham...@debian.org> sortmail Itamar Almeida de Carvalho <ita...@oktiva.com.br> libxml-dt-perl Ivan Kohler <ivan-deb...@420.am> libpod-simple-wiki-perl libtaint-util-perl Jaldhar H. Vyas <jald...@debian.org> libdatetime-format-mail-perl (U) Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <j...@computer.org> nat spellcast-doc vrrpd Jo Shields <direct...@apebox.org> monodevelop (U) Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <g...@debian.hu> manpages-hu sidplay-base Lionel Elie Mamane <lmam...@debian.org> scsh-defaults Marcela Tiznado <m...@debian.org> cadubi Mark Purcell <m...@debian.org> dvr (U) Mathias Krause <mkra...@informatik.tu-cottbus.de> polymer Mickael Profeta <prof...@debian.org> tetex-frogg Mike Furr <mf...@debian.org> wmressel Mike Markley <m...@markley.org> gkrellm-leds Mirco Bauer <mee...@debian.org> monodevelop (U) Miriam Ruiz <little_m...@yahoo.es> cycle (U) Mohammed Adnène Trojette <adn+...@diwi.org> ooo2dbk Monty Taylor <mord...@inaugust.com> plywood Norbert Tretkowski <norb...@tretkowski.de> mysql-5.5 (U) OHURA Makoto <oh...@debian.org> apt-show-source Pawel Wiecek <co...@debian.org> crack doc-linux-pl Pierre Machard <pmach...@debian.org> doc-linux-fr Python Applications Team <python-apps-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org> cycle (U) Richard Holland <holl...@eaglegenomics.com> libwww5.808-perl Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) <sam+...@zoy.org> tmview Shane Wegner <sh...@debian.org> dotconf Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <ra...@linuxia.de> dbix-easy-perl Steffen Moeller <moel...@debian.org> libwww5.808-perl (U) Thomas Bläsing <thoma...@pool.math.tu-berlin.de> python-libpcap Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> extplorer Víctor Pérez Pereira <vpe...@debianvenezuela.org> perl-byacc Yu Guanghui <y...@debian.org> 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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