On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Jonathan Yu wrote: > 22:02:40 < rra> jawnsy: I don't think we say that explicitly, but RFC > 5322 requires it and I can't imagine ever not enforcing that. > Although you should check with the dpkg maintainers to be sure. > > Could we/should we make the Debian Policy more restrictive, and > specify explicitly that field names must only be ASCII-encoded? [...] > Your comments and feedback on this would be much appreciated.
I think this discussion is theoretical and useless. I hope nobody will suggest a field name containing non-ascii characters... I don't think dpkg does any special decoding when reading data. dpkg deals with "bytes" and not characters AFAIK. I'm certainly OK with policy requiring field names to be ASCII. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer ◈ [Flattr=20693] Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100926075312.gc22...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com