[Fedora-packaging] file-not-utf8 complaints

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Mon Jun 2 20:35:24 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 06:26:03PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Saturday 31 May 2008, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 06:56:33PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > > Reencoding the xml files that specify an encoding isn't strictly
> > > necessary.  We should probably ask upstream whether they are amenable to
> >
> > I think that reencoding files that carry over the encoding information
> > (info, texinfo, tex and xml for example) is wrong. It is better to let
> > upstream do whatever they want.
> 
> I agree with Toshio on this one, IMO it's not necessarily wrong.  Anyway wrt. 

I don't disagree. I think it should be left to the maintainer.

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Pat




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