[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#762078: Bug#762078: Bug#762078: on disk help freezes octave gui
* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2014-10-07 23:00]:
I am tempted to disable compression of info files, since it is an easy
fix for the problem with the GUI, and the cost in terms of additional
space is limited (something like 2MB).
At any rate, we need to reach a decision soon, since the jessie freeze
is very close. What do you think?
According to the Debian Policy manual, section 12.2: "[Info documents]
should be compressed with gzip -9." We have a "should" here instead of a
"must" and, according to section 1.1: "Non-conformance with guidelines
denoted by _should_ (or _recommended_) will generally be considered a
bug, but will not necessarily render a package unsuitable for
distribution."
That said, I would follow Sébastien's suggestion and disable compression
of info files for jessie.
Rafael
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