On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:59:36AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > There was. It ended with no conclusion. Here's my view of the outcome, > from pure recollection without looking anything up: > > - gzipping PDF files does save some space; bz2 compression would save > even more. Naturally, compressing files that are internally > uncompressed gives better results. > > - among the people that maintain packages with lots of pdf.gz files, no > one seems really opposed to shipping them uncompressed. But also > nobody seemd to be willing to do the first step, especially since > there is no consensus about not compressing them. > > > So far for the past; at the moment I think that it would be a good > compromise to not compress PDF files in dedicated -doc packages, while > keeping them compressed in mixed packages. This would mean that we > should *not* wait for debhelper to switch, but instead add -X.pdf to > dh_compress in tetex-doc. But this is just my personal opinion, and not > a very fixed one - it still has to be discussed among the Debian TeX > Task Force Seconded.
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