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In today's annoucement of the release update, Marc Brockschmidt mentioned the release goal to make UTF-8-clean control and changelog files.

I was also working on Pootle for i18n.debian.net and such non clean files for linux-doc-html-pt and linux-doc-text-pt were annoying me. So, I just decided to NMU these packages and fix the 20th century ISO-8859-1 encoding they use in debian/control.

As this was easy, I decided to NMU (0-day....all these packages had longstanding bug reports while the fix is trivial) all other packages with badly encoded debian/control files and, as of tonight, there should not be such files anymore in unstable.

Maintainers with badly encoded debian/changelog, watch out for your asses, I could decide for such a campaign for your stuff. So, please fix this: this is as easy as using "iconv".

(no, I won't make a daily post)

After one day only, and a general call for updates, we went up to 22 complete languages for D-I level 1. +4