[Fedora-packaging] UTF-8 package names

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Feb 26 18:49:06 UTC 2008


Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> The biggest issue I could see is that any issues in handling such a package
> would need to be fixed *everywhere* that package is deployed, whether it
> be current Fedora, earlier Fedora, or EPEL. It may not be practical to
> deploy such fixes everywhere.

Consider, for example, that such a package breaks bugzilla. Although I
suppose that's one way to avoid getting bug reports.

Bill




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