Package: general
Severity: important

This bug is to track progress on the Lenny release goal "UTF-8
debian/changelog and debian/control":

* UTF-8 debian/changelog and debian/control
Advocate: Russ Allbery
Release-Team-Contact: ??
Description: Fix all remaining debian/changelog and debian/control
files which don't use UTF-8. These are easily found by lintian via
debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding and
debian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding.
Bug-Tag: utf8-control
State: confirmed

(See [1])


I will file individual bugs against all packages that are affected (see [2] and
[3]) and set them to block this bug.


[1] http://release.debian.org/lenny-goals.txt
[2] http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tdebian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding.html
[3] http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tdebian-control-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.8 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash



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On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:37:42 +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:

> This bug is to track progress on the Lenny release goal "UTF-8
> debian/changelog and debian/control":

I'd suugest to include debian/copyright, too.
Lintian is almost ready, cf. #451689

Cheers,
gregor
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Hi gregor!

You wrote:

> > This bug is to track progress on the Lenny release goal "UTF-8
> > debian/changelog and debian/control":
>
> I'd suugest to include debian/copyright, too.
> Lintian is almost ready, cf. #451689

I'd be happy to add debian/copyright, too, but as the release goal
explicitly mentions chaneglog and control only, I think the release team
should ok it first.

(And of course the linitan test needs to be available on
lintian.debian.org)

Best regards,
Bas.

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On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:22:50 +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:

> > I'd suugest to include debian/copyright, too.
> I'd be happy to add debian/copyright, too, but as the release goal
> explicitly mentions chaneglog and control only, I think the release team
> should ok it first.
> (And of course the linitan test needs to be available on
> lintian.debian.org)

Agreed (on both aspects).

Cheers,
gregor
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