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Re: Some files in /usr/share/doc/foo stay uncompressed, some are compressed



On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:30:57 -0200, "Nelson A. de Oliveira"
<naoliv@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 2/12/06, Marc Haber <mh+debian-mentors@zugschlus.de> wrote:
>> I am now wondering whether it is acceptable to compress all of the
>> .txt files, or to keep all of them uncompressed. Which would be the
>> lesser evil?
>
>Less evil is let them all compressed.

but not compressing them would remove the need to patch the html
files. dh_compress has an option to modify its default behavior.

>In general, dh_compress will do the right job for you.

In the current situation, it doesn't. Policy allows both approaches as
the files _should_ be compressed.

Greetings
Marc

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