On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 19:29:27 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ben Finney <[email protected]> writes:
> > Jakub Wilk <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> >> I propose that all copyright files must use UTF-8 encoding. Lintian has
> >> been emitting a warning for copyright files using obsolete national
> >> encodings since 2007 and there are not many packages left:
> 
> >> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-copyright-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding.html

> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 1a61d4f..4fd60d9 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -9936,6 +9936,10 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
>         <file>README.Debian</file> or some other appropriate place.
>       </p>
>  
> +     <p>
> +       All copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8.
> +     </p>
> +
>       <sect1 id="copyrightformat">
>         <heading>Machine-readable copyright information</heading>

Seconded.

regards,
guillem

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