From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 13 23:22:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77D5316A40F for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:22:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1220E13C46B for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:22:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 13244 invoked by uid 399); 13 Jan 2007 22:56:05 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Jan 2007 22:56:05 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <45A96382.3040407@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:56:02 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.freebsd.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061215) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Pantyukhin References: <17833.15710.478810.6251@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Ports , Robert Huff Subject: Re: Restricting (human) language and character set in /usr/ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:22:48 -0000 Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 1/13/07, Robert Huff wrote: >> >> Andrew Pantyukhin writes: >> >> > I'm not sure if there's a policy already, but it seems >> > we have discussed this before. >> > >> > Can we limit /usr/ports (the whole ports collection) to >> > English language and ASCII characters? This restriction >> > should probably apply to all text data (with possible >> > exception for patches). >> >> I don't follow this issue (much), so could you explain what's >> broken about the /status quo/? > > It depends on what you mean by /status quo/, but in > short, when I look at COMMENT, pkg-descr, pkg-message, > comments in Makefile and other such text data, I > expect to see English language and ASCII characters. > > There are ports that don't follow this expectation and > I'd like to change that. I'm not sure it's quite so cut and dry as that. For example, I think it's probably reasonable for the /usr/ports/ ports to have some non-ascii stuff to start with. Is there a problem you're trying to solve here, or is this just a matter of tidying things up a bit? Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection