Your message dated Mon, 28 Oct 2013 01:18:26 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#701081: fixed in debian-policy 3.9.5.0 has caused the Debian Bug report #701081, regarding debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Apparently the debian-policy currently says nothing about the characters used in filenames contained in binary packages. Most packages use common sense and only use a small subset of US-ASCII. In Debian sid main most filenames can be represented using the following subset of US-ASCII characters (written as a regular expression): [][a-zA-Z0-9{}<>() ^/,=:&!*%#$~@+._-] The number of exceptions is about 200 contained in about 50 binary packages. In those packages some filenames are not representable as UTF-8 (for example aspell-is) and others don't make any sense in ISO-8859-15 (for example ca-certificates). It would be nice if some common ground concerning filename encoding could be reached. The options range from a rather restrictive definition of acceptable characters via requiring filenames to be representable in US-ASCII to mandating a particular encoding (such as UTF-8). This could be first introduced as a SHOULD and later turned into a MUST. Personally I do not really care about what the precise restriction is as long as it permits a mechanical transformation to unicode. Helmut
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--- Begin Message ---Source: debian-policy Source-Version: 3.9.5.0 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Charles Plessy <[email protected]> (supplier of updated debian-policy package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900 Source: debian-policy Binary: debian-policy Architecture: source all Version: 3.9.5.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Policy List <[email protected]> Changed-By: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Description: debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents Closes: 668394 669915 671355 676784 679326 690293 691352 697433 698030 700536 700574 701081 703022 704657 705403 706778 707077 707183 715804 720507 Changes: debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low . * Policy: Document the Package-List field. Wording: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Closes: #697433 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete Wording: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> Seconded: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Closes: #679326 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory Wording: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Seconded: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> Closes: #690293 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet Wording: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Wording: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> Seconded: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Closes: #698030 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger. Wording: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> Seconded: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Closes: #669915 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc. Wording: Thomas Goirand <[email protected]> Seconded: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> Closes: #715804 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH. Wording: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> Seconded: Julian Gilbey <[email protected]> Closes: #701081 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files. Wording: Ian Jackson <[email protected]> Seconded: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Seconded: Joey Hess <[email protected]> Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <[email protected]> Closes: #720507 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory. Wording: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Seconded: Steve Langasek <[email protected]> Seconded: Julien Cristau <[email protected]> Closes: #707183 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files. Wording: Paul Wise <[email protected]> Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> Seconded: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Closes: #707077 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character. Wording: Niels Thykier <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Closes: #706778 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability. Wording: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> Seconded: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Closes: #671355 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder. Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]> Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <[email protected]> Seconded: Charles Plessy <[email protected]> Closes: #668394 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation. Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover. * Update dak reference from old katie name. Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover. * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352) * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <[email protected]>. * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles. Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck. * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9. Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn. * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones. Closes: #705403 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784) * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian. * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit". * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors. 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