Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

2012-03-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: More relevantly at the moment, there is, as yet, no wording to formally second. (I too agree with the proposal.) Here's a proposed patch: diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml index 1a61d4f..4fd60d9 100644 --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@

Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

2012-03-03 Thread Simon McVittie
On 03/03/12 03:29, Russ Allbery wrote: 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 fileREADME.Debian/file or some other appropriate place. /p + p + All

Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

2012-03-02 Thread Jakub Wilk
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist 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:

Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

2012-03-02 Thread Ben Finney
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org 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:

Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

2012-03-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org 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:

Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

2012-03-02 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 19:29:27 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: I propose that all copyright files must use UTF-8 encoding. Lintian has been emitting a warning for copyright files using obsolete national

Re: Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

2012-03-02 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Our current process document says that seconds have to be from Debian Developers. IIRC, you are not (yet?) a Debian Developer, although please correct me if I'm misremembering. Right on all counts (including the “yet” :-). Sorry for the noise. -- \

Bug#661933: debian-policy: mandate UTF-8 encoding for copyright files

2012-03-02 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 04:50:36AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 19:29:27 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: I propose that all copyright files must use UTF-8 encoding. Lintian has been