rawhide report: 20090206 changes

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Feb 8 18:29:14 UTC 2009


Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> said:
>> What's wrong with checking contributors can use their own given name
>> instead of some alien transliteration just to keep buggy apps unaware
>> of their problems?
> 
> Names != bullets
> 
> What's wrong with following the de-facto standard everybody else uses,
> instead of forcing people to push through an updated packaging guideline
> that says "use only the ASCII dash '-' character in specfile changelog
> entries"?

If that's the only purpose of this exercise, I will be the bad guy and 
do that. The stated reasons are not enough to inflict pain on our users. 
Testing of UTF-8 must be done in a better way.

Rahul




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