Comment 7 for bug 1700846
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| Robie Basak (racb) wrote Re: src:texinfo fails to import with ASCII decoding issue | #7 |
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Debian policy 3.8.1.0 first mandated UTF-8 in control files in March 2009. The dsc file in question is from November 2006. So it was valid by the policy that applied at the time. This suggests that we must be able to handle non-UTF-8 correctly for historical source packages.
With an undefined codec, perhaps errors='replace' would be appropriate.