Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-04-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Charles Plessy wrote: after more than one month of discussion, we have not reached a conclusion. [...] Can others comment how they would like to see this bug solved ? I think wording (requiring UTF-8 filenames) is probably the appropriate next step. Yes, maybe not everyone will agree on the

Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-04-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: I think we should require UTF-8 as the character encoding for file names and fix the non-UTF-8 file names in the archive currently. None of the other courses of action really make any sense to me. I think we should also forbid the use of non ASCII file

Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-04-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 29 Mar 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: I think we should require UTF-8 as the character encoding for file names and fix the non-UTF-8 file names in the archive currently. None of the other courses of action really make any sense to me. I think we

Bug#701081: debian-policy: mandate an encoding for filenames in binary packages

2013-04-01 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 08:01:03PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: after more than one month of discussion, we have not reached a conclusion. Thanks for the ping. In the current situation there is no policy, which means that everything is allowed. Indeed, there is at least one package with