Le Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 08:02:10AM +0100, Helmut Grohne a écrit : > > I have to admit, that I am slightly in favour of just copying Fedora's > approach. Making distributions more compatible with each other seems > like a worthwhile thing to do.
This could be done by an addition like the following, after section 10.9 (Permissions and owners). The wording is still a bit clumsy also, I am not sure if "installed" includes files created by maintainer scripts (which would be the intent here). I named the section "File names", and not "File name character set", in case we would add other restrictions (such as length) in the future. + <sec id="filenames"> + <heading>File names</heading> + + <p> + The name of the files installed by binary packages must be encoded in + UTF-8 and should be restricted to ASCII unless there is a justified + need for using other characters. + </p> + </sec> Some packages do not comply with the above. Given the pace of the releases of the Policy, I am not sure that it is worth having first a should and then a must, if you or somebody else would have the time to tackle the issue after the Wheezy release. By the way, how about directories ? Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130224025401.ga28...@falafel.plessy.net
