Bug#337539: UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)

[Martin Michlmayr]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.2.1
Severity: minor

C.2.2 has a footnote that talks about UTF-8 but it's really out of date:

 For example, in unstable, GNOME
 2 has excellent support (almost level 2) in almost all its
 applications; the big remaining one is gnome-terminal, of which one
 requires development versions in order to support UTF-8 (available in
 Debian experimental now if you want to play).  I think that by the
 time Sarge is released, UTF-8 support will start to hit critical mass.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

-- no debconf information

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Re: Add Debian revision number standards to policy?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 03 Nov 2005, Steve Langasek wrote:
 On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 06:45:32PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
  If I number it 1.2-0.1, it would mean it's no longer a native
  package.  Does that mean I should split it in an .orig.tar.gz and
  a diff?
 
 On the contrary; Policy does not say that a native package can't have a - in
 its version, it only says that *if* the package is non-native, the Debian
 revision is the part after the last -.
 
 This format for NMU version numbers of native packages (1.2 - 1.2-0.1) is
 the only one that provides unambiguous identification of NMUs and binNMUs by
 version number alone, and it's the only one that's guaranteed not to collide
 with the maintainer's versioning scheme.

Ah, so I was completely wrong on this issue.  Good to know...

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