[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#762078: Bug#762078: Bug#762078: on disk help freezes octave gui

[Mike Miller <mtmiller@debian.org>]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 00:22:31 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * 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's my understanding also.

> That said, I would follow Sébastien's suggestion and disable compression of
> info files for jessie.

I'm probably a bit biased by seeing the 3.8 GUI as a best-effort
experimental feature, and that this will hopefully be fixed by 4.0. But
I agree this would also be fixed now by simply bypassing compression of
the info pages temporarily, which just opens a non-RC policy-compliance
bug.

Sounds like you're both in favor, so fine with me.

-- 
mike