Re: Compressing *.db files in /usr/doc
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Marco Budde:
> SV> I have received a suggestion for debstd, namely, to not compress
> SV> any *.db files found in /usr/doc/<package> by default.
>
> No, I've suggested to compress only know file types instead of
> compressing everything.
Yes, and I think that the suggestion of compressing only "known file
types" is worse, so I'm asking here just whether compressing *.db files
is ok or not.
Please, bear in mind that since debstd is in maintenance-mode-only, I'm
not going to change it in a very incompatible way from night to day.
> debstd compresses a lot of file types found in HTML documentation and
> this is really bad.
That's exactly the reason why *.jpg files are not compressed, for example.
What I want is to be sure that not compressing *.db files is the right
thing to do, and whether or not debhelper should do the same.
Raul Miller:
[...] I think the appropriate thing for debstd to do is allow a
way to uncompress files (or whatever else) after they've been compressed.
Well, remember that since debstd generates the md5sums, it has to be the
last command that does "something" in the debian/tmp tree (save
chmod or chown, of course).
debstd has the option -c, which leaves compression to be done by the user
before the debstd call. Is this enough?
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