On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 06:22:43PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi Adam, > > On 01-10-13 00:54, Adam Borowski wrote: > > * user-accessible interfaces (GUI, stdin, stdout, stderr, command line, > > reading/writing plain-text files) should be able to pass through UTF-8 > > data uncorrupted, by default > > * UTF-8 should be properly displayed > > I am wondering who is going to do the work for e.g. bug 576095 [1]. > Upstream is basically dead and declared in the past that UTF-8 support > would mean a mayor effort (the e-mail archive I refer to in the bug got > lost). I am not going to do it as my c skills are not up to it. So what > do you propose in view of this release goal? That packages such as nedit > are removed from Debian? Apparently [2], there are still users > interested in this package, that is why I never removed it. > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=576095 > [2] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=nedit
Simply stating in the package description that it doesn't support UTF-8 seems more acceptable to me. That a package doesn't met a RG doesn't exclude it from Debian¹, nevertheless it's good to know what to expect from it. regards, ¹https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals -- Ricardo Mones ~ Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Carl Sagan
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