Comment 6 for bug 117180

This patch applies cleanly, but I still don't believe it accomplishes the goal of modifying validate.c so that encoding matches the other deprecations. As far as I can see, for other cases where a specific entry is deprecated, the upstream authors have removed the entire handlers for those sections from the source. As we try not to have significantly invasive patches in Ubuntu, I recommend that instead of deleting these sections, you either wrap the entire section in a comment, or prevent compilation if an #ifdef 0 .. #endif construction. You no longer need the child functions, as you have defined TRUE for the Encoding defnition (with { "Encoding", validate_string, TRUE }, /* 0.9.5: deprecated */). This applies to both the section starting at line 729 and the section starting at line 936.