On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 18:11, Jochen Voss wrote:
> Is this meant to apply to programs like "ls", "bash", "touch", and
> "emacs"?
Yes.
> I imagine that the transition period could be a hard time
> for users who (like me) use non-ASCII characters in file-names.
That is probably true. But we real
Hello,
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:25:15PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> + Programs should expect filenames in general (whether from
> + a Debian package or created by the user) to be encoded
> + with UTF-8, although it is recommended for programs to try
> + graceful
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 11:45, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> > #99933 goes a lot farther than #174982. First of all, we can't even
> > suggest that people use UTF-8 in package control fields until all our
> > tools support it. Right now it is just plain broken to put anything but
> > ASCII in them.
>
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.6.1
Severity: wishlist
I guess this bug could be combined into bug #114920, but I decided to
file it separately, since I'm not sure exactly where that bug is going.
A discussion around bug #175061 (an ITP of mine) highlights some
confusion I had about Perl nami
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:57:35PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 13:12, Radovan Garabik wrote:
>
> > see #99933. It has been seconded and generally accepted at the time,
> > but policy freeze caused it did not get into policy then.
>
> Hmm, I searched the policy bug list, I
Hi Roland!
You wrote:
> >> Policy applies to all packages, whether they state that they comply
> >> with it yet or not. I'd also go with "should" in the meantime until
> >> a survey is done and we know how many changelogs need to be fixed,
> >> but I think in the long run it ought to be mandatory
Colin Walters (2003-01-02 11:54:08 -0500) :
> On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 09:12, Colin Watson wrote:
>
>> Policy applies to all packages, whether they state that they comply
>> with it yet or not. I'd also go with "should" in the meantime until
>> a survey is done and we know how many changelogs need to
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| Any seconds?
seconded.
| --- policy.sgml~ 2002-11-15 01:49:40.0 -0500
| +++ policy.sgml 2003-01-01 21:59:26.0 -0500
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| separated by exactly two spaces.
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On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:07:08PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> --- policy.sgml~ 2002-11-15 01:49:40.0 -0500
> +++ policy.sgml 2003-01-01 21:59:26.0 -0500
> @@ -2257,6 +2257,13 @@
> separated by exactly two spaces.
>
>
> +
> + The entire chan
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