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

2013-04-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 12:18:37AM +0100, Julian Gilbey a écrit : > > For consistency, I guess this should be /usr/games rather than > /usr/games/. > The final paragraph seems a little bit vague; would "should be > restricted to ASCII when it is possible to do so" be clearer? For if > Unicode c

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

2013-04-14 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 06:01:10PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 12:18:37AM +0100, Julian Gilbey a écrit : > > > > For consistency, I guess this should be /usr/games rather than > > /usr/games/. > > > The final paragraph seems a little bit vague; would "should be > > res

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

2013-04-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 08:20:15PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 10:39:19AM -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > 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 t

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

2013-04-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 08:20:15PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 10:39:19AM -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > 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 t

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

2013-04-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:58:03AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > I think configuration files should also be included in the first list, > because the > user is supposed to be able to interact dirrectly with them. I object to this extension of the proposal, because use of UTF-8 characters in conf

Bug#705403: Correcting non-standard dpkg states in the Policy.

2013-04-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: debian-policy Severity: minor Hello everybody, would you mind if I make the follwing replacements as non-normative changes in the Policy ? - "configuration files only" state -> "Config-Files" state - not installed state -> "Not-Installed" state - "Failed Config" stat

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

2013-04-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 01:55:29PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:58:03AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > I think configuration files should also be included in the first list, > > because the > > user is supposed to be able to interact dirrectly with them. > > I object

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

2013-04-14 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 02:22:47PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Why files in ca-certificates are configuration files in the first place ? > I doubt users are expected to edit PEM certificate. Correction of what I said before: ca-certificates does not ship them as conffiles, but as configuration

Bug#705403: Correcting non-standard dpkg states in the Policy.

2013-04-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > would you mind if I make the follwing replacements as non-normative > changes in the Policy ? > - "configuration files only" state -> "Config-Files" state > - not installed state -> "Not-Installed" state > - "Failed Config" state -> "Half