Re: Please test gzip -9n - related to dpkg with multiarch support

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>, 2012-02-09, 03:45:
> > But anyway, I believe that in the long run we should simply deprecate 
> > compressing stuff in /usr/share/doc/.
>
> So the main reason people are arguing for shared files boils down to 
> used size, either in installed files, or Packages files, etc,

I don't know what is the "main" reason for other people. (But I doubt 
it's about saving space as you're trying to imply.)

> yet you want to fix the compression issue by not compressing them and 
> using even more space?

Is that surprising to you that different people can advocate the very 
same thing for different reasons?

I think that compressing documentation is an anachronism, which we 
should get rid of regardless of whether it helps multi-arch or not.

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Jakub Wilk