Source: bomstrip Section: text Priority: optional Maintainer: Peter Pentchev Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Standards-Version: 4.5.0 Homepage: https://www.ueber.net/who/mjl/projects/bomstrip/ Vcs-Git: https://gitlab.com/ppentchev/bomstrip-pkg-debian.git Vcs-Browser: https://gitlab.com/ppentchev/bomstrip-pkg-debian Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: bomstrip Architecture: any Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: tool to strip Byte-Order Marks from UTF-8 text files Bomstrip is a very simple tool that removes BOM's (byte-order-marks) from UTF-8 files. UTF-8 does not have byte-ordering issues, so there is absolutely no need to have three bytes (the UTF-8-BOM) that do not say anything about the byte-order (since there is nothing to say).