Re: BTS cleaning, seconded patches, and conversion of the Policy to DocBook.

2011-03-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Hmm, that text seems lousy. For example, I am not a Debian Developer, > but I never had the impression that correctly documenting when a bug has > the right number of seconds is unwelcome. > Would anyone mind if that paragraph is replaced with something along > these l

Re: BTS cleaning, seconded patches, and conversion of the Policy to DocBook.

2011-03-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Charles, Charles Plessy wrote: > I am reading http://wiki.debian.org/PolicyChangesProcess and > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Policy to see how I can help to go forward with > the Policy bugs. Not only for the patches that I sent in 2010 and 2011, but > more in general for all the patches that

Re: 8bit characters in files in Debian packages

2011-03-31 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 07:05:10PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > So this raises two issues: > > 1) should non-7bit characters in filenames be allowed > > Yes, I don't see a good reason to forbid them. In particular when we are > in an international

Re: 8bit characters in files in Debian packages

2011-03-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > So this raises two issues: > 1) should non-7bit characters in filenames be allowed Yes, I don't see a good reason to forbid them. In particular when we are in an international environment and we are targetting full localization. > 2) if yes whould we r

BTS cleaning, seconded patches, and conversion of the Policy to DocBook.

2011-03-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I am reading http://wiki.debian.org/PolicyChangesProcess and http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Policy to see how I can help to go forward with the Policy bugs. Not only for the patches that I sent in 2010 and 2011, but more in general for all the patches that are potentially ready for an inc

8bit characters in files in Debian packages

2011-03-31 Thread Bill Allombert
Dear Developpers, there are a small numbers of packages that ship files with non-7bit characters in filenames. $ apt-file search -l -x '[\x80-\xff]' aspell-ca aspell-es aspell-is canorus console-tools dvb-apps ggz-python-games inorwegian jpilot lletters-media otrs2 wnorwegian So this raises two