* Olе Streicher <debian-devel@liska.ath.cx>, 2012-01-18, 16:59:
It seems that dh_compress is responsible for the compression. However, if I switch this off with the ruleoverride_dh_compress: dh_compress -Xchangelog.html lintian complains with the error "changelog-file-not-compressed".So, do I have now the choice between a broken link in the HTML documentation and a policy violation? Which one should I choose?
Policy §12.7 says that the changelog files “should be installed compressed using ‘gzip -9’, as they will become large with time even if they start out small.” I don't think that the size argument is really relevant when the documentation is in a separate package (or in a -dev package).
For my packages, I chose to ignore this Policy requirement when it stood in my way.
-- Jakub Wilk